Book Reviews
On Fire
By: Naomi Klein | Category: Nature | Political Science | Year: 2019 | ISBN: 9781982129910
Description:
Klein’s book is flawless — far from it — but because it makes a strong case for tackling the climate crisis as not just an urgent undertaking, but an inspiring one, states Jeremy Rifkin, in his review of Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire.
A short and relative...
The Inner Life of Animals
By: Peter Wohlleben | Category: Biography & Autobiography | Nature | Science | Year: 2017 | ISBN: 9781771643023
Description:
Following his widely-acclaimed book, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben has written this account of how animals love, mourn, bond, and exhibit compassion. In his usual inimitable style, Wohlleben interweaves scientific studies with engaging case studies. He makes the strongest case to date...
The Sixth Extinction
By: Elizabeth Kolbert | Category: Self-Help | Nature | Year: 2014 | ISBN: 9780805099799
Description:
In her timely, meticulously researched and well-written book, Kolbert combines scientific analysis and personal narratives to explain the world we’ve made to us. The result is a clear and comprehensive history of earth’s previous mass extinctions — and the species we’ve lo...
Climate Justice
By: Mary Robinson | Category: Nature | Science | Business & Economics | Year: 2018 | ISBN: 9781632869302
Description:
Author Mary Robinson was the first woman president of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997; afterward, she served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002. She was also an honorary president of the global development charity Oxfam.
In November of 2016, Robins...
Little Fires Everywhere
By: Celeste Ng | Category: Nature | Fiction | Year: 2017 | ISBN: 9780735224308
Description:
Readers of Celeste Ng’s second novel, “Little Fires Everywhere,” will recognize a few elements from her acclaimed debut, “Everything I Never Told You.” There are the simmering racial tensions and incendiary family dynamics beneath the surface of a quiet Ohio town. Th...
Lab Girl
By: Hope Jahren | Category: Nature | Year: 2016 | ISBN: 9781101874943
Description:
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A New York Times 2016 Notable Book National Best Seller Named one of TIME magazine’s "100 Most Influential People" An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Washington Post Best Memoir of 2016 A TIME and Entertainment W...
The Hidden Life of Trees
By: Peter Wohlleben | Category: Nature | Science | Year: 2016 | ISBN: 9781771642491
Description:
After reading this, you will never look at trees in the same way again. Using scientific data, Wohlleben shows us that trees are social beings who nurture their young, protect their kin, take care of the sick, share nutrients, and communicate constantly with other trees in their ecosystem. His ov...
The Water Will Come
By: Jeff Goodell | Category: Nature | Year: 2017 | ISBN: 9780316260237
Description:
In this book, Goodell dutifully tracks down the people who are working on those "solutions" — the Miami Beach engineers who are raising city streets and buildings; their Venetian counterparts who are building a multibillion-dollar series of inflatable booms that can hold back stor...
