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Summer Reading Adult Non-Fiction
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The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts
by Philip Kitcher
Two forefront intellectuals examine the science, politics and debates surrounding climate change in today's world, addressing topics ranging from whether or not climate change is real to the responsibility of today's world in protecting future needs.
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The Community Gardening Handbook: The Guide to Organizing, Planning, and Caring for a Community Garden
by Ben Raskin
Community gardens are “cropping” up all over, allowing neighbors to work together, grow together, and reap the delicious rewards of their labor together. As more and more people become interested in getting back to nature and growing their own food, the community-gardening movement is exploding in popularity, giving city and suburban dwellers an opportunity to try out their green thumbs. This colorfully illustrated guide to community gardening offers comprehensive planning and planting advice to those looking to start a community garden as well as to those interested in joining an existing garden.
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
by Rutger Bregman
The author presents a history of utopian thinking and a pragmatic manifesto for today, suffused with facts, success stories and lively anecdotes, in a book that advocates for a universal basic income, a 15-hour workweek and open borders.
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The Spark and the Grind: Ignite the Power of Disciplined Creativity
by Erik Wahl
The world-famous graffiti artist and best-selling author of Unthink—synthesizing the wisdom of other artists, philosophers, scientists and business visionaries throughout history, along with his own personal story—presents a guide to ensuring a constant creativity in everyday life, in and out of the office, that will produce the most innovative work yet.
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The Mother Earth News Guide to Vegetable Gardening
by Mother Earth News
Plan for self-sufficiency with a garden focused on edibles! Choose from variety of plans for kitchen gardens, browse strategies for small space gardening, or up your gardening game by installing and maintaining permanent beds. Soil concerns? Get the dirt on building fertile soil, soil pH, compost, vermicompost--even biochar. Long-time gardeners are sure to find something new, from vertical gardening to plans for extending the seasons.
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You're More Powerful than you Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen
by Eric Liu
Are you ready for this age of bottom-up citizen power? Do you understand what power truly is, how it flows, who has it, and how you can claim and exercise it? Eric Liu, who has spent a career practicing and teaching civic power, lays out the answers in this incisive, inspiring, and provocative book. Using examples from the left and the right, past and present, he reveals the core laws of power. He shows that all of us can generate power-and then, step by step, he shows us how. The strategies of reform and revolution he lays out will help every reader make sense of our world today. If you want to be more than a spectator in this new era, you need to read this book.
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Beekeeper's Lab: 52 Family-Friendly Activities and Experiments Exploring the Life of the Hive
by Kim Lehman
If you keep bees or are interested in keeping bees, Beekeeper's Lab is the book for you. Filled with 52 beekeeping and hive-inspired projects to keep you involved with your bees and hive all year long. The tutorials are brief, accomplishable, and rewarding. Try a new technique each week with how-tos and sidebars with tips that are perfect for including the whole family.wo decades! Beekeeping a fun and educational for the whole family to enjoy and is a highly impressive skill to possess!
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Girling Up: How to be Strong, Smart and Spectacular
by Mayim Bialik
The Critics' Choice Award-winning scientist, writer and star of The Big Bang Theory draws on personal experience to share anecdotal advice on everything from body image and relationship challenges to first kisses and finding one's true passion.
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Finding Shelter: Portraits of Love, Healing, and Survival
by Jesse Freidin
Without volunteers, our nation’s animal shelter system simply would not exist. Volunteers speak for those that cannot speak, pick up the pieces for abandoned animals that have been let down by previous owners or unfortunate circumstances, and do whatever it takes to heal the deepest of wounds. In Finding Shelter, award-winning photographer Jesse Freidin shows the softer side of this story. He witnessed firsthand how many of the volunteers were able to mend their own emotional hurts with the love the shelter animals gave back to them, and how the power of these relationships transforms shelters into places where humans and animals can heal together. The result is a heartwarming inspiration for people to look differently at how to save shelter pets.
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