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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

Marc Reisner

4.7 on Amazon

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Calculus: Early Transcendentals

James Stewart , Daniel K. Clegg, et al.

4.2 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

James Suzman

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Calculus

James Stewart

4.4 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition

Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

Barbara Oakley PhD

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

David Deutsch, Walter Dixon, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Carl Jung, James Cameron Stewart, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Steven Pinker, Arthur Morey, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Simple Techniques to Instantly Overcome Depression, Relieve Anxiety, and Rewire Your Brain

Olivia Telford

4.5 on Amazon

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ohlookabirdonJune 12, 2021

Thanks! There is also the nice book by Peter Wohlleben touching on this subject (the "wood wide web"): The Hidden Life of Trees.

sundvoronJuly 26, 2021

I wanted to share the Hidden life Of Trees book, for anyone finding the above fascinating. The author explores the idea that trees use fungal networks to communicate, which is further to what we see about the plants here.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life...

(I can recommend the Audible version.)

dsignonJune 29, 2021

One can be the leading expert in a field and still believe weird things, sometimes to the detriment of said field. Though in this case is more likely Dr. Simard and her editor agreed this was the best language to present her subject to a wide audience... imho, again to the detriment of her field.

> fungi-mediated carbon transfer between trees of different species.

I knew first from Suzanne Simard in Peter Wohlleben's book "The Hidden Life of Trees". Among other things, it describes how fungi interact with trees. It's absolutely fascinating and can very much recommend. Just as Dr. Simard, Wohlleben likes to attribute personality to trees. From the broad viewpoint of cognitive theory, it kind of makes sense. It doesn't change the fact that these are natural systems worth understanding, modelling and predicting. Anthropomorphizing ecosystems via parables in a popular science book directs public opinion in ways that can be very counter-productive.

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