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Inquiring Minds: Talking about Citizen Science

Top Ten Nature Books of 2014, The Guardian

Writing: A way of being conscious in the world

Entomology Today: Citizen science and the mystery of the Western red bellied tiger beetle

Beetles in the Bush: Burrow hole blues

Openscientist blog: Excerpt of introduction to Diary of a Citizen Scientist

Citizen Science Center: Why I Do Citizen Science

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Audio of Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Knocking on Heaven’s Door

In the 23rd century, humans live in utopia, hunting and gathering in tribal bands, reunited with old (cloned) friends like the mammoth, connected by solar-powered laptops, buoyed by the belief in a panpsychic universe in which consciousness pervades matter. A 150 years after the supervirus that killed off most of humanity, our return to a Paleoterrific lifestyle seems to our last, greatest achievement. But in this new Garden of Eden, one man and one woman—as well as a smarter-than-average dire-wolf--are faced with a decision that could literally transform the planet. Again. Will we repeat the cycle of curiosity and hubris? Or is our destiny even stranger than that?

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Hunger: An Unnatural History

Hunger: An Unnatural History

Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. In Hunger, Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience. Step by step, Russell takes us through the physiology of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to three days to seven days to thirty days. In quiet, elegant prose, she asks a question as big as history and as everyday as skipping lunch: How does hunger work?

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Teresa of the New World

Teresa of the New World

A story of magic and apocalypse set in the American Southwest of the sixteenth century, Teresa of the New World weaves together history and myth, real-life conquistadors and shape-shifting jaguars, the devastation of plague and the promise of home.

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Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist

Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist

"Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell’s wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Here she explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to the Transcendentalists while reflecting on her own life during a year spent in the mountains and desert of southwestern New Mexico. Nature provides the inspiration for meditations on subjects ranging from Buddhist thought to the death of her father, from global warming to the ineffable loneliness of human experience. With a humane heart, an inquisitive mind, and an astounding fluency of prose, Sharman Apt Russell invites skeptics, scientists, and seekers everywhere to join her in her exploration of the soul of pantheism.

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From Emma Donoghue's interview in the March, 2014 New York Times Sunday Book Review:

What was the last book that made you cry? And the last that made you furious?

"Sharman Apt Russell’s wide-ranging, tough-minded, compassionate and eloquent Hunger: An Unnatural History made me cry in fury."

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An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect

An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect

Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation. In this lyrical meditation, Sharman Apt Russell reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary collectors and dedicated scientists who have obsessively cataloged new species of Lepidoptera. A luminous journey through an exotic world of passion, biology, and beauty, this is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever experienced the enchantment of butterflies.

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Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers

Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers

In Anatomy of a Rose, Sharman Apt Russell eloquently unveils the "inner life" of flowers, showing them to be more individual, more enterprising, and more responsive than we ever imagined. From their diverse fragrances to their nasty deceptions, Russell proves that, where nature is concerned, "wonder is not only our starting point; it can also be our destination." Throughout this botanical journey, she reveals that the science behind these intelligent plants--how they evolved, how they survive, how they heal--is even more awe-inspiring than their fleeting beauty. Russell helps us imagine what a field of snapdragons looks like to a honeybee; she introduces us to flowers that regulate their own temperature, attract pollinating bats, even smell like a rotting corpse.In this poetic rumination, which combines graceful writing with a scientist's clarity, Russell brings together the work of botanists around the globe, and illuminates a world at once familiar and exotic.

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