March 2018 list by L. Berube
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The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
by Martin Doyle
An environmental history of the role of rivers in shaping American politics, economics and society touches on subjects ranging from conservation and the New Deal to the Hoover Dam and Hurricane Katrina, drawing on experts from diverse backgrounds to explore how the natural and human transformations of rivers have made a significant impact on the nation.
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The Outrun
by Amy Liptrot
After a life of heavy drinking in London, the author returns home to Orkney at the age of 30, and finds that the unbridled nature of the Outrun has the natural healing she needs to put her on the path to recovery.
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The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
by Adam Nicolson
A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this book, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory.
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker
A follow-up to The Better Angels of Our Nature challenges the doom-and-gloom outlooks of today's media to present dozens of graphs and charts demonstrating that life quality, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge and happiness are actually on the rise throughout the world as a result of the philosophies about an Enlightenment era that uses science to improve human existence.
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