This book provides a fascinating look at how animal culture is present in the social interactions, adaptations, and passing on of knowledge to future generations in some animals. The author shares his wealth of experience having studied sperm whales, scarlet macaws, and chimpanzeees in the wild.
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina. On the cover of this book, there is a blue, yellow, and green macaw hanging out upside down against a white background. There is an image of a gold decal that states, New York Times|Book Review|100 Notable Books 2020.
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Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
by Carl Safina
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer The cover is very simple. It is beige with a braid of sweetgrass extending across the cover.
If you love books aboout the natural world, I highly recommend Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The author has created a beautiful blend of objective science and ancient indigenous wisdom. This book can definitely leave a lasting impact.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The cover has a bearded man wearing a coat with lapels. He is seated with hands folded against a black background. His expression is mysterious, as though he is in thoughtful reflection.
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Number 20:
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse The cover has a black background with an image of a half-moon. Against this image is a profile of an Indian man holding the reins of a horse. The man is wearing jewelry and head-dress.
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The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in folklore, superstition and traditional medicine by Sandra Lawrence The cover has images of mushrooms that are shades of pink, fuschia, and orange. The mushrooms are against a black background, and the images are interspersed with gold line drawings of a chemist's bottle, a sun, an eye, and other gold accents.
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Number 18:
There Is a River: The Classic Biography of the Sleeping Prophet, the Father of Holistic Medicine, and the Most Documented Psychic of Modern Times By Thomas Sugrue The cover has Edgar Cayce's face against a blue background. The way that he is posed in the picture makes him look like he is thinking about something.
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Number 17:
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck, MD The cover is in shades of beige and tan with red lettering.
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Number 16:
The Private Life of Plants by David Attenborough The cover shows a green, pitcher shaped plant. There is a frog in the pitcher that is standing up and looking over the rim of the pitcher.
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Number 15:
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez The cover is yellow and the title is written in blue, white, and black.
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Number 14:
Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens The cover is in shades of gray and black. It shows a man poring over an open book by candlelight. His glasses are raised on his forehead, and he is wiping his eye with a handkerchief. There is a black cat at his feet.
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Number 13: Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens
Quite: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain The cover is interesting. It is a frosted gray color and the word "Quiet" is in red lettering. The frosted gray color gives the cover an opaque look, and it looks like the gray color is covering something that you can't quite see.
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Number 12:
Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer The cover has a surreal-looking picture that shows a dinosaur and humans placed in what looks like different levels of a house.
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Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook by Alice Waters The cover is red and has a picture of Alice Waters as a young woman. The picture looks like a passport photo and there are marks that look like passport stamps.
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. by John Medina The book has a black and white cover with a picture of a brain.
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The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals by Merlin Tuttle
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