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  Navigating the Post-Trust Era

  Shiva Singh

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  In these days of fake news, it is more difficult to know whom to trust and what to believe. We have entered, what Singh describes as, a post-–trust era. Here we shine a light on how we can be more mindful of the role we play, sometimes unwittingly, in condoning and promoting fakery and how we can become more alert to how vulnerable we are to falling prey to fakeness.

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  Radical Botany - Plants and...

  Antónia Szabari, Natania Meeker

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  “Succeeds beautifully in discovering and entwining an entire tradition of speculative botany that will reshape plant studies and posthumanist theory.” —Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times 
   
  Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Winner 
   
  Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants’ liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. 
   
  Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. Radical Botany traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. If, as Michael Foucault has argued, the notion of the human was born at a particular historical moment and is now nearing its end, Radical Botany reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. 
   
  The trajectory of speculative fiction which this book traces offers insights into the human relationship to animate matter and the technological mediations through which we enter into contact with the material world. Plants profoundly shape human experience, from early modern absolutist societies to late capitalism’s manipulations of life and the onset of climate change and attendant mass extinction. 
   
  A major intervention in critical plant studies, Radical Botany reveals the centuries-long history by which science and the arts have combined to posit plants as the model for all animate life and thereby envision a different future for the cosmos.

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  Climate Change Is Racist - Race...

  Jeremy Williams

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  ** LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE LONGLIST 2022 **
  
  
  'Really packs a punch' Aja Barber, author of Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
  'Will open the minds of even the most ardent denier of climate change and/or systemic racism. If there's one book that will help you to be an effective activist for climate justice, it's this one.' Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, author of This is Why I Resist
  
  'Accessible. Poignant. Challenging.' Nnimmo Bassey, environmentalist and author of To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa
  
  When we talk about racism, we often mean personal prejudice or institutional biases. Climate change doesn't work that way. It is structurally racist, disproportionately caused by majority White people in majority White countries, with the damage unleashed overwhelmingly on people of colour. The climate crisis reflects and reinforces racial injustices.
  
  In this eye-opening book, writer and environmental activist Jeremy Williams takes us on a short, urgent journey across the globe - from Kenya to India, the USA to Australia - to understand how White privilege and climate change overlap. We'll look at the environmental facts, hear the experiences of the people most affected on our planet and learn from the activists leading the change.
  It's time for each of us to find our place in the global struggle for justice.

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  Field Guide to the Natural World...

  Howard Youth

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  Discover the wonders of Washington’s complex ecosystem with this field guide to the district’s parks, gardens, urban forests and more. 
   
  Every neighborhood of Washington, D.C., is home to abundant wildlife, and its large park network is rich in natural wonders. A hike along the trails of Rock Creek Park, one of the country’s largest and oldest urban forests, quickly reveals white-tailed deer, eastern gray squirrels, and little brown bats. Mayapples, Virginia bluebells, and red mulberry trees are but a few of the treasures found growing at the National Arboretum. A stroll along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers might reveal stealthy denizens such as bullfrogs, largemouth bass, and common snapping turtles.  
   
  In Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington, D.C., naturalist Howard Youth takes readers on an urban safari, describing the wild side of the nation’s capital. Detailed drawings by Carnegie artist Mark A. Klingler and photography by Robert E. Mumford, Jr., reveal the stunning color and beauty of the flora and fauna awaiting every D.C. naturalist. 
   
  Residents and tourists alike will find this guide indispensable, whether seeking a secluded jog or an adventurous outing away from the noise of the city.

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  AnxietyI'm So Done with You! - A...

  Jodi Aman

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  Ditch anxiety with this practical guide! Anxiety, depression, & self-doubt can be such bullies! When they are in your life, they make you feel small and incapable. But that is not true! 
  Are you done with anxiety running your life? Want to end that destructive, toxic relationship? Getting back control is teachable. The path is not mystical, it is practical. There are repeatable, doable steps at your fingertips. This guide will give you permission and know-how to engage in the joy of adventure, creativity, and purpose in your life.Learn that anxiety and depression are not your fault and highly treatable.Receive practical skills to create the life you want instead of feeling powerless.Demystify anxiety until it is no longer scary.Realize how anxiety lies to make you feel vulnerable & alone.Take control of your personal power, and engage your confidence, motivation, and intuition.Let go of perfectionism & fully accept yourself.Generate happiness in your life. And, keep it there. 
  As a parent of two teenagers, I believe this is a must-have guidebook for any young person and their family. Whether you wrestle mightily with anxiety or just sometimes don't quite know how to handle life's hardships, this book gives practical, insightful, modern methods for creating positive change in your life and mind.  
  ~Julie Barton, NYT Bestselling author of Dog Medicine.  
  What teens need most is someone who understands them, and helps them to believe in themselves. Jodi is a perfect example of this. She inspires me through how she increases their confidence that they have the power to heal and create their own life, especially when they don't see it.  
  ~Clint G Rogers Ph.D., author of Ancient Secrets Of A Master Healer. 

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  Lithium - A Doctor a Drug and a...

  Walter A. Brown

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  From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration and exile, Walter Brown chronicles the troubling history of the diagnosis and (often ineffective) treatment of bipolar disorder through the centuries, before the publication of a groundbreaking research paper in 1949. Cade's "Lithium Salts in the Treatment of Psychotic Excitement" described, for the first time, lithium's astonishing efficacy at both treating and preventing the recurrence of manic-depressive episodes, and would eventually transform the lives of patients, pharmaceutical researchers, and practicing physicians worldwide. And yet, as Brown shows, it would be decades before lithium would overcome widespread stigmatization as a dangerous substance, and the resistance from the pharmaceutical industry, which had little incentive to promote a naturally occurring drug that could not be patented.
   
  Brown also provides a vivid portrait of the story's unlikely hero, John Cade, a devoted naturalist who, unlike many modern medical researchers, did not benefit from prestigious research training or big funding sources. In this revelatory biography of a drug and the man who fought for its discovery, Brown crafts a captivating picture of modern medical history - revealing just how close we came to passing over this extraordinary cure.

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