In the mid-1970s, as she set out to launch the Green Belt Movement — focusing developing communities by planting trees — Wangari Maathai faced an environmentally strained land, an impoverished population and a government plagued with lack of resources, inexperience, and corruption. But the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and author of The Challenge for Africa
Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry
by Patrick Coffey
With physicists and evolutionary biologists routinely hitting bestseller lists, chemistry can start to seem an unsexy scientific pursuit. In Cathedrals of Science, Patrick Coffey returns to headier days for the field, when the work and relationship between a dozen-odd chemists — their brilliant collaborations, bitter one-upmanship, shifting loyalties and long-standing grudges — came to define modern chemistry and show how exactly scientific theories come to attributed and accepted.
The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
by Hannah Holmes
It turns out that a lot of human behavior and biology is revealed in one of our most common acts: driving a car.
As Hannah Holmes shows in her humorous study of our kind — treating us as any other animal and finding our many animal counterparts — driving explains a lot. An automobile is just a tool….
by Sharon Olds
After we flew across the country we
got in bed, laid our bodies
delicately together, like maps laid
face to face, East to West, my
San Francisco against your New York, your
Fire Island against my Sonoma, my
New Orleans deep in your Texas, your Idaho
bright on my Great Lakes, my Kansas
burning against your Kansas
The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It
by Heather K. Gerken
About a year ago, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold an Indiana law requiring voters to present photo ID at the polls. Supporters praised the ruling for helping to fight voter fraud; detractors pointed out that there were no documented cases of such fraud. Both sides had something in common, however….
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