Cover unavailableThe Overstory
Richard Powers
“A magnificent achievement: a novel that is, by turns, both optimistic and fatalistic, idealistic without being naïve.”
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BOOKSTHAT / LIST NO. 3375
Books that reveal the hidden relations between bodies, systems, histories, ecologies, and ideas.
PHILOSOPHY & IDEAS
NATURE & ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS & SOCIETY
Cover unavailableRichard Powers
“A magnificent achievement: a novel that is, by turns, both optimistic and fatalistic, idealistic without being naïve.”
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Cover unavailableJulian Aguon, Arundhati Roy
“This is bound to inspire any activist.”
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Cover unavailableMaria Popova
“[A] passionate and erudite pursuit of truth and beauty.”
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Cover unavailableMichael J. Spivey
Michael Spivey draws on cognitive science and neuroscience to argue that the self extends through interactions among brain, body, environment, and other people.
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Cover unavailableWendy Johnson MD, MPH
Wendy Johnson examines relationships among health, social conditions, healthcare systems, and the natural environment through a public-health and ecological perspective.
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Cover unavailableL E Fox
L. E. Fox’s essays examine climate change through a critique of capitalism and consider alternatives to existing economic and social arrangements.
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Cover unavailableRam Dass
An unruly blend of spiritual instruction, personal transformation, and visual experimentation that invites readers to reconsider where they place their attention.
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Cover unavailableNiillas Holmberg, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
Holmberg’s poetry tests and expands the limits of the book as a visual and verbal art form.
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