by Ed Yong (2022)
Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong takes readers on an astonishing journey beyond human perception, revealing the sensory bubbles ('Umwelt') of beetles tracking wildfires, turtles sensing magnetic fields, and elephants hearing sub-audible seismic rumbles.
Caroline Criado Perez
The international sensation and Royal Society Science Book Prize winner. Caroline Criado Perez uncovers how built-in data gender bias impacts every aspect of daily life—from medical trials and smartphone sizes to car crash safety dummies and office temperatures—proving that male defaults systematically fail half the global population.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dr. Kimmerer weaves indigenous Potawatomi wisdom with scientific botanic observation to illuminate the tiny, resilient world of mosses, showing how small organisms sustain entire ecosystems and teach patience.
[by] John Palfrey
Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information. In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. And libraries, which play a crucial role in making these skills and information available, are at risk. In order to survive our rapidly modernizing world and dwindling government funding, libraries must make the transition to a digital future as soon as possible—by digitizing print material and ensuring that born-digital material is publicly available online. Not all of these changes will be easy for libraries to implement. But as Palfrey boldly argues, these modifications are vital if we hope to save libraries and, through them, the American democratic ideal. Publisher
John Michael Greer
"As peak oil reshapes the terrain of our future, John Michael Greer offers an inspiring vision of cultural evolution rooted in environmental science. For anyone concerned about peak oil and the future of industrial society, this book is an essential guide to the deep patterns of change wracking the world today, and a practical toolkit for building a sustainable future."--Jacket.