ong before the question of “man versus bear” began to tear up TikTok, people have contemplated what it’s like to be with a beast. The earliest art we know of, cave paintings and rock carvings, shows humans interacting with wild animals. Over the tens of thousands of years since making...
This book isn’t about turning away from sorrow and suffering, or tuning them out to focus on joy. Abrams explains as they are getting ready to leave, “. . . the more we turn away from our self-regard to wipe the tears from the eyes of another, the more — incredibly — we are...
“This book reminds us that humans are small chemical factories, taking in raw materials, turning them into energy and building materials and producing wastes, some of them smellier or more colorful than others.” Read more... The Best Chemistry Books Michelle Francl, Scientist Buy now The...
For her the Socratic method is key to making progress in answering the most important questions we can ask about love, sex, death, and politics. Read expert recommendations Buy now The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI by Jonathan Birch Read expert ...
Before its acquisition by Harpers in 1985, William Collins & Sons settled on the less risky venture of four books in boxes:Animals,Letters,NumbersandColors.First with Elgin Davis Studios,James Diazwas the paper engineer behind all four and later joined David A. Carter (see his tribute to Brun...
Linking her life lessons to the stories she learned in childhood about the constellations, Tweit shows how qualities such as courage, compassion, and inspiration draw us together and bind us into the community of the land and of all living things. Pieces of Light: A Year on Colorado’s ...
until late in the night. But when the smoke proves to be hiding a fearsome fire, Morris leads us straight into full-blown nightmare mode, and ratchets up the action and the terror that began the novel. By laying the character groundwork with Todd, he keeps us turning the pages ever ...
Designed for kids aged six to ten, the story follows Chloe, a young girl who learns a valuable lesson about friendship after initially turning down Maya, the new girl in class. Lee describes it as a challenging but essential read. "My heart aches a little when reading this with children ...
But pull back the curtain on the central characters in The Thing About Men, and you will find that they are all men you know. These unique stories include humans and other animals—from dogs to pandas to animal tattoos—that serve as characters to reveal the mongrel, spotted, sometimes ...
I suppose I kept turning the pages because I agreed with the author but even when I knew little about what he was writing about, I was captivated. I think this author is a modern hero, a fine, clear, writer, and his story is one I truly want to recommend to our Hearts & Minds ...