As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness -- the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural -- to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows...

Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to todayś global crisis: Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature ; Explores the convergence of indigenous and contemporary science and the re-indigenization of the worldś peoples ; Includes authoritative indigenous voices, including John Mohawk and Winona LaDuke. For millennia the worldś indigenous peoples have acted as guardians...

Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to Antarctica, across the warm belly of the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, then home again. We meet Eskimos whose way of life is melting away, explore a secret global seed vault hidden above the Arctic Circle, investigate dilemmas facing...