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Upstream by Mary Oliver

"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go …

What it's like to be a bird : what birds are doing, and why -- from flying to nesting, eating to singing by David Allen Sibley

In What It’s Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we …

New Dark Age by James Bridle

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single …

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and brave the …

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is …

The trouble with physics by Lee Smolin

The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe is a book on modern physics by …

The red queen by Matt Ridley

Breath by James Nestor

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five …

Deep Medicine by Eric J. Topol

The premonition : a pandemic story by Michael Lewis

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted …

Rest, Refocus, Recharge by Greg Wells

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality by Per Bak

The structure and dynamics of networks by Mark Newman, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Albert-László Barabási, and 2 others (Princeton studies in complexity)