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"Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos"--
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings--beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in "artificial"...
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Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"A gardener's pandemic journal that combines memoir with an exploration of the natural world both inside and outside the garden. In March 2020, Margot Anne Kelley was watching seeds germinate in her greenhouse. At high risk from illness, the planning, planting, and tending to seedlings took on extra significance. She set out to make her pandemic garden thrive but also to better understand the very nature of seeds and viruses. As seeds became seedlings,...
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Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Long ago, Grandfather came to a new land. Fish swam in the water, birds chirped in the sky, monkeys played in the trees. And in this wilderness, with his own two hands, Grandfather built a house. It wasn't easy. But the land gave him what he needed. And it became his home. Decades later, his grandson will have all he needs: a head full of memories, two capable hands, and the heart to appreciate family, nature, and home. This picture book creates...
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Publisher
Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xv, 187 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Revealing how human society evolved and flourished, a world-renowned historian and philosopher tells strange, but true, stories about how humans established civilization, endured the consequences of it and created history-changing inventions along the way.
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Publisher
Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xv, 185 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From learning to make fire and using the stars as guides to cooking meals in microwaves and landing on the moon, prepare to uncover the secrets and superpowers of how we evolved from our first appearances millions of years ago"--
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxv, 695 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of...
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