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u/Enyse · 4 pointsr/TheOA

\>>> I tried to compile the rest of the books.

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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

by Geoff Dyer

(can't find the same edition)

"May be the best book ever written about jazz."—David Thomson, Los Angeles Times

In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of But Beautiful, and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.

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The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Half of the world’s population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery to almost all of us. In The Tide, celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams weaves together centuries of scientific thinking with the literature and folklore the tide has inspired to explain the power and workings of this most remarkable force.

Here is the epic story of the long search to understand the tide from Aristotle, to Galileo and Newton, to classic literary portrayals of the tide from Shakespeare to Dickens, Melville to Jules Verne.

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Return of the Sea Otter

by Todd McLeish

A science journalist's journey along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska to track the status, health, habits, personality, and viability of sea otters--the appealing species unique to this coastline that was hunted to near extinction in the 18th and 19th centuries. These adorable, furry marine mammals--often seen floating on their backs holding hands--reveal the health of the coastal ecosystem along the Pacific Ocean. Once hunted for their prized fur during the 1700s and 1800s, these animals nearly went extinct. Only now, nearly a century after hunting ceased, are populations showing stable growth in some places. Sea otters are a keystone species in coastal areas, feeding on sea urchins, clams, crab, and other crustaceans. When they are present, kelp beds are thick and healthy, providing homes for an array of sealife. When otters disappear, sea urchins take over, and the kelp disappears along with all of the creatures that live in the beds. Now, thanks to their protected status, sea otters are floating around in coves in California, Washington, and Alaska.

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Why Women Will Save the Planet

by Friends Of The Earth, Jenny Hawley (Editor)

Women's empowerment is critical to environmental sustainability, isn't it? When Friends of the Earth asked this question on Facebook half of respondents said yes and half said no, with women as likely to say no as men. This collection of articles and interviews, from some of the leading lights of the environmental and feminist movements, demonstrates that achieving gender equality is vital if we are to protect the environment upon which we all depend. It is a rallying call to environmental campaigning groups and other environmentalists who have, on the whole, neglected women's empowerment in their work.

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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

by George Monbiot

This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that transform our understanding of how natural systems work, George Monbiot explores a new, positive environmentalism that shows how damaged ecosystems on land and at sea can be restored, and how this restoration can revitalize and enrich our lives. Challenging what he calls his “ecological boredom,” Monbiot weaves together a beautiful and riveting tale of wild places, wildlife, and wild people. Roaming the hills of Britain and the forests of Europe, kayaking off the coast of Wales with dolphins and seabirds, he seeks out the places that still possess something of the untamed spirit he would like to resurrect.

He meets people trying to restore lost forests and bring back missing species—such as wolves, lynx, wolverines, wild boar, and gray whales—and explores astonishing evidence that certain species, not just humans, have the power to shape the physical landscape.

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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

by Olivia Laing

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love. Along the way, Laing explores the roles rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature and mythology alike. To the River excavates all sorts of stories from the Ouse's marshy banks, from the brutal Barons' War of the thirteenth century to the 'Dinosaur Hunters', the nineteenth-century amateur naturalists who first cracked the fossil code. Central among these ghosts is, of course, Virginia Woolf herself: her life, her writing and her watery death. Woolf is the most constant companion on Laing's journey, and To the River can be read in part as a biography of this extraordinary English writer, refracted back through the river she loved. But other writers float through these pages too - among them Iris Murdoch, Shakespeare, Homer and Kenneth Grahame, author of the riverside classic The Wind in the Willows.

u/kneeltothesun · 6 pointsr/TheOA

(A few are still unidentified, if anyone recognizes any.)

What Nature
Edited by Timothy Donnelly, B. K. Fischer and Stefania Heim

Poetry that grapples with the intersection of natural and cultural crises.
Shifting its focus from what has already been lost to what lies ahead, What Nature rejects the sentimentality of traditional nature poetry. Instead, its texts expose and resist the global iniquities that create large-scale human suffering, a world where climate change disproportionately affects the poorest communities. The intersection of natural and cultural crises—like Standing Rock's fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan—are confronted head on. These poems, lyric essays, and hybrid works grapple with political unrest, refugeeism, and resource exploitation, transforming the genre of ecopoetics.



https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/what-nature




The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
by Terry Tempest Williams

America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir WhenWomen Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them.

From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.

https://www.amazon.com/Hour-Land-Personal-Topography-Americas/dp/0374280096



What Future: The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future
by Torie Bosch (Editor), Roy Scranton

One of The Smithsonian Magazine's Best Science Books of the Year
The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It's work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says, now what?

A best-of-the-year anthology, What Future is a collection of long-form journalism and essays published in 2016 that address a wide range of topics crucial to our future, from the environmental and political, to human health and animal rights, to technology and the economy.

What Future includes writing from authors Elizabeth Kolbert, Jeff Vandermeer, Bill McKibben, Kim Stanley Robinson, as well as the scientists, journalists, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead, but beyond, in prestigious magazines and journals such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker.

https://www.amazon.com/What-Future-Reclaim-Reanimate-Reinvent/dp/1944700455



The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
by Mark Sundeen


“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” —Los Angeles Times

The radical search for the simple life in today’s America.

On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound for a homestead they've purchased, sight unseen. Meanwhile, a horticulturist, heir to the Great Migration that brought masses of African Americans to Detroit, and her husband, a product of the white flight from it, have turned to urban farming to revitalize the blighted city they both love. And near Missoula, Montana, a couple who have been at the forefront of organic farming for decades navigate what it means to live and raise a family ethically.

A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of these new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for -- or create -- a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.

https://www.amazon.com/Unsettlers-Search-Good-Todays-America/dp/1594631581



Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson

Silent Spring began with a “fable for tomorrow” – a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural animals, domestic pets, and even humans. Carson used it as an introduction to a very scientifically complicated and already controversial subject. This “fable” made an indelible impression on readers and was used by critics to charge that Carson was a fiction writer and not a scientist.

Serialized in three parts in The New Yorker, where President John F. Kennedy read it in the summer of 1962, Silent Spring was published in August and became an instant best-seller and the most talked about book in decades. Utilizing her many sources in federal science and in private research, Carson spent over six years documenting her analysis that humans were misusing powerful, persistent, chemical pesticides before knowing the full extent of their potential harm to the whole biota.

Carson’s passionate concern in Silent Spring is with the future of the planet and all life on Earth. She calls for humans to act responsibly, carefully, and as stewards of the living earth.

http://www.rachelcarson.org/SilentSpring.aspx



Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.

As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.



Thoreau and the Language of Trees
Richard Higgins

Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow in the air, he was speaking about himself. In short, he spoke their language.

In this original book, Richard Higgins explores Thoreau’s deep connections to trees: his keen perception of them, the joy they gave him, the poetry he saw in them, his philosophical view of them, and how they fed his soul. His lively essays show that trees were a thread connecting all parts of Thoreau’s being—heart, mind, and spirit. Included are one hundred excerpts from Thoreau’s writings about trees, paired with over sixty of the author’s photographs. Thoreau’s words are as vivid now as they were in 1890, when an English naturalist wrote that he was unusually able to “to preserve the flashing forest colors in unfading light.” Thoreau and the Language of Trees shows that Thoreau, with uncanny foresight, believed trees were essential to the preservation of the world.


https://www.amazon.com/Thoreau-Language-Trees-Richard-Higgins/dp/0520294041



u/Billith · 9 pointsr/TheOA

It is suspect that he, as supposedly not a field agent, shows up at their house. Although they made a point to show how bright Alfonso's phone light is, which could've attracted attention.

Either way, I'm glad you brought up Forking Paths, I figured more people would understand the significance.

I just finished reading Parallel Universes: The Search For Other Worlds by Alan Wolf. It's a great book if you have the time/interest. There is much talk of the idea that parallel universes are simply quantum separations that can overlap and coalesce just as they can split and diverge. Everything that could ever happen does happen, in some place. This all starts with a choice.

As Otto Hofmann said, "And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious; it bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to once instant, is to say yes to all of existence."

u/FrancesABadger · 3 pointsr/TheOA

Sorry, I know that I should not read into this at all. But my first thought was.....

What are the names of those books!? Kind of like when Brit posts on IG with all the Book titles readable, which also happens in the OA at the bookstore in Grass Valley where you can see all the environmental books behind Karim, like the original, Silent Spring.

What I read here are yes, you guessed it, books on how to save the planet:

u/DonJovar · 2 pointsr/TheOA

Wow. What a great observation!

Probably not a coincidence at all.

Link to product: https://www.amazon.com/STAX-SR-Lambda-SR-507-Headphones-Earspearkers/dp/B004YSHA5W

u/ProbabilityMist · 1 pointr/TheOA

That post is ridiculous. It's stuff written out of thin air. There's a scientific basis and then there's a whole pile of crap made up all around it. This is exactly what Carl Sagan warned for in his book The Demon Haunted World. It is a must read if you love science:
https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark/dp/0345409469

And yes, of course it's possible that we're living in a simulation, but if this is a simulation and our world is being simulated in our heads (kind of like in The Matrix) then it is not logical for there to be any common things or backdoors we can use to get out of it or even prove we're in it.

If this is a simulation and all matter is being simulated, then it seems like we have actually evolved from the beginning of all of it in simulated matter, where time/entropy is a computer or a driving force, and where we're actually nothing but data, and it would make no sense at all to put a planet "in the middle of it all".

Btw there is actually very interesting movement going on scientifically and philosophically around finding the origins of our existence, things like quantum gravity, research of the role of entropy, stuff about the information universe (how we're all built up out of exactly the same atoms; only different is arrangement).

Planets or rings around planets however are no part of this all or any scientific theory. I recommend to read the Carl Sagan book, and to be and stay critical of everything.

u/landrisf · 1 pointr/TheOA

The recently published book "The Gnostic New Age" is a good introduction: https://www.amazon.com/Gnostic-New-Age-Countercultural-Revolutionized/dp/0231170769
It is written by one of the leading scholars in the field of biblical studies, and also has many references to gnostic themes in movies like The Matrix, The Truman Show and others.

u/katrina1215 · 3 pointsr/TheOA

There is a book by a slightly different name on this topic.

The spirit molecule

u/shayoa · 7 pointsr/TheOA

Has anyone looked into this book https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Nation-Novel-Jeffrey-Lent/dp/080213985X

His badge says Lost Nation on it, could be a reference to this novel about a man who goes on a journey with a young girl he bought at a brothel in order to look for a second life. Very interesting, could have nothing to do with where they are but just referencing this story.

u/neuromance_r · 7 pointsr/TheOA

> He also doesn't seem happy to see them bonding, but somehow troubled

[Ep 02] The very last scene before that is Abel teaching OA how to climb a tree, seemingly very bonding. In the scene when they arrive at their house (before the tree climbing), Abel is the one playing with OA and making jokes, making her laugh.

> What does the purple fluid do?

[Ep 02] The purple color appears in almost the entire episode. It's practically omnipresent, with the authors practically forcing the color into the viewer. Just let me remind you that the purple color, at least in movies, has very specific symbolism: death. And its use in the episode is very interesting.

It starts with Nina and her colleagues in the school playing with the snakes. They are all dressed in purple shirts. Her teacher is using a purple cardigan. Then she talks to her father in the phone. Later she receives the news that his father is dead. She then leaves the school in a purple coat. After a couple scenes, the Johnson couple arrives at Nina's aunt house, Nancy is wearing purple. Nancy then wanders the house and finds a purple russian doll. When Nancy finds Nina with the baby in the attic, Nina is wearing purple pants. A couple more scenes in, Nina arrives with the Johnson couple at their house and she's wearing a different purple coat. Couple scenes later, while Prairie is learning braille, Nancy is wearing a purple shirt, there are purple toys and there are even colored toys, two of the pieces nearer Prairie are red and blue, the two primary colors used to combine into purple. Then comes the enigmatic scene where Abel brings a purple colored fluid in a tray, and he looks very concerned. The next scene is Abel filming Prairie sleepwalking, there are very small details in purple around the room and no one is wearing purple. Next is the Johnson couple talking to the psychiatrist, and guess who's wearing purple this time: Abel. In this scene, nothing really notorious is purple besides Abel's clothes. Then we find out that Prairie is listening behind the door, wearing purple again. After that doctor visit, the Johnson couple decides to medicate Prairie, the first scene in which we see that is the next one, when Prairie is taking a bath and Nancy is helping her, when Prairie has a moment when she remembers the drowning incident and gets upset, Nancy gives her a pill. Nancy wears a purple-ish robe and with purple ribbon. That's when we learn about the effects of the medication on Prairie, she gets dull and numb, and in the next scene, where they are taking a picture together, the whole view is totally immersed in purple-ish tones. A couple scenes later, fast forwarded to Prairie's second premonition around her 21st birthday and still taking medicines, everything is still pretty much purple. Then we get to the present time, OA is explaining to the group the effects of the medicines and her premonitions still happening, we see BBA wearing a purple scarf. Then it cuts to Prairie in New York, disembarking the ferry and oh my god if I've ever seen so much people wearing purple in a single shot before (1, 2, 3, 4). Prairie leaves the statue and goes to the subway station, two females pass behind her in the shot, wearing purple coats. We're back to present, OA telling her story, everyone leaves, then it cuts to the Johnson couple in bed, talking, when Nancy stands up and goes to the window and sees OA coming back, there's a purple appliance (clock, maybe?) at the bed side. They meet at the kitchen and are discussing her walks, there are some "welcome back" presents on the table along with some balloons, the one that reads "home" is purple. Later, the kids listeners to OA's story are researching, checking facts on the internet, they find a photo of the bridge where she had the accident in Russia, and someone annotates "It's from 1995" in the picture file, using which color? Right, purple. The French reads the messages with the pictures in his phone and walks away, in the background, there's a lot of purple. The school's official colors seem to have purple in it, and there's a lot of it all around. A few scenes pass, OA's back telling how she met Hap. The very first glimpse we get of him, he's wearing purple a purple scarf. When we finally see his face, there's purple everywhere. The whole sequence when they are talking in the subway, it's screaming purple with people wearing purple pieces walking around them, purple lights in the background, purple painted walls, etc. When they are talking in the restaurant, and Hap gives Prairie the equipment to hear heartbeats, she identifies a boy by the heartbeat rate, the boy is wearing a purple tie.

After that, they travel by airplane and arrive at Hap's. Besides the purple clothing pieces in Prairie's shirt and Hap's scarf, we don't see purple anymore. His house is filled with a dark brown wood and dark decoration. The cellar is grayish but has the bright greens of the plants and white lights. We get a new glimpse of purple when Prairie is panicking after discovering she's trapped and we get a shot of her feet stumbling into the running water, she wears purple socks. But as soon as she is alone with him, traveling, then in his house, it's interesting the abrupt break of purple appearances, specially after being hammered with purple the whole episode.