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A renowned scientist's new book shows how life and our planet have been in conversation for four billion years, transforming each other in amazing ways. The work celebrates the wonder of Earth's story while offering hope for understanding our future.
A science journalist's new book reveals that collaboration between organisms has been far more important to life on Earth than competition. The findings challenge decades of nature being framed purely as survival of the fittest.
Theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's new book proves that understanding the universe doesn't require intimidating equations. She weaves together pop culture, poetry, and cosmology to make the deepest questions in physics accessible to everyone.
A university in Nellore celebrated the 135th birth anniversary of India's Constitution architect with a powerful new book exploring his legacy. The work shows how Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's ideas still offer solutions for today's India.
A passionate collector and fellow bibliophiles just opened India's first dedicated antiquarian bookshop and formed a society to help others discover the joy of rare book collecting. Their mission is making century-old literary treasures accessible to a whole new generation of Indian readers.
A Doberman puppy teaches children about acceptance on her first day of school in a new book that proves kindness conquers fear. Part of the profits support rescue dogs finding forever homes.
A new book chronicles how 18 Timorese asylum seekers, including a six-month-old baby, crossed the ocean to Australia in 1995 on a tiny fishing boat to continue their fight for independence. Their daring journey represents both survival and hope during one of history's longest occupations.
A New York Times editor who once waited in line for new iPhones wrote a book about why we should pause before clicking "buy now." His advice could help us all spend smarter and feel less cluttered.
Storybook Maze calls herself a "radical street librarian" and makes books appear in neighborhoods where children have almost no access to them. Through free book vending machines and street corner story times, she's eliminating book deserts one community at a time.
More than 25,000 books are being donated to underserved children across New York City and Long Island through a partnership between ThriftBooks and Book Fairies. The donation helps close a critical gap after the nonprofit fell 28,000 books short of requests last year.
A Harvard University Press book explores how friction shapes everything from Olympic swimming to everyday life. The 2008 Beijing Olympics swimsuit scandal shows how understanding this invisible force can change the world.
For the first time, residents of the isolated Chatham Islands can book single tickets connecting their local flights to major New Zealand cities. The new partnership between Air Chathams and Air New Zealand ends years of complicated multi-booking travel for one of the country's most remote communities.
After watching climate advocates burn out for years, Katharine Wilkinson wrote a guide to help them stay emotionally strong. Her book "Climate Wayfinding" offers reflection exercises, art, and community discussion prompts instead of another overwhelming to-do list.
A new book by veteran activists reveals that many freedoms we consider settled—from the 40-hour workweek to voting rights—were once fiercely contested through protest. The message: today's protesters may be tomorrow's heroes.
A new biography reveals the inside story of how DeepMind's Demis Hassabis led breakthroughs that earned a Nobel Prize and changed scientific discovery forever. The book offers rare insights into the team behind AI's most celebrated achievements.
An Indian migrant turned author has written a book that puts human faces to the Netherlands' asylum seekers, sharing their stories of hope and struggle. Her work arrives as anti-migrant sentiment rises across Europe.
A Louisiana grandmother turned her grandson's real-life friendship with a tiny insect into a children's book teaching empathy. The story shows kids how even the smallest acts of kindness can make the world brighter.
A beloved secondhand bookstore that faced closure after 40 years just found a new home three times larger than its current location. Hard to Find Books will soon house up to 250,000 books, making it New Zealand's biggest secondhand bookstore.
Award-winning reporter Sally Hayden spent years covering conflicts and migration crises, but her new book reveals what headlines miss: love thrives even in catastrophe. "This is Also a Love Story" shows the human connections journalists rarely capture.
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A children's book series is helping kids understand that great white sharks aren't the monsters movies make them out to be. Through lovable dog characters and stunning illustrations, young readers discover the gentle truth about ocean predators.
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