Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas

5 best books like Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (Stefan Helmreich): Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, When Species Meet, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman, You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Author	Robin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN	1571313354

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together...

When Species Meet

Author	Donna J. Haraway
ISBN	0816650462

In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending over $38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion species”—knotted...

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Author

Mircea Eliade

In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive...

If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman

Author

Sharon Blackie

'Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our streams and into our rivers and out onto the sandy strands of the rock-strewn Atlantic seaboard, are the old Celtic myths and stories … waiting to be reclaimed and re-visioned for the modern world.'

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You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters

Author	Deepak Chopra
ISBN	1524723770

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world.

"A riveting and absolutely fascinating adventure that will blow your mind wide open!" --Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi ...