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A Healing Grove: African Tree Remedies for Mind, Body and Spirit

By Stephanie Rose Bird — 2009

A Healing Grove: African Tree Remedies and Rituals for the Body and Spirit by Stephanie Rose Bird draws on the rich historical African tradition of the remedial qualities of trees, rallies against society's increasing detachment from nature and highlights the contemporary social and economical... See more...

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How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human

A wide-ranging take on why humans have a troubled relationship with being an animal, and why we need a better one Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive, and baffling animals on the planet. But we are also an animal that does not think it is an animal.

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Melanie Challenger
2024
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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

In A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediately of a great poet. Now Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist.

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Diane Ackerman
1993
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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.

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Diane Ackerman
2024
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus.

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Peter Godfrey-Smith
2016
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