1-Sentence-Summary: Wintering highlights the similarities between the cold season of the year and the period of hardship in a human life, by emphasizing how everything eventually passes in time, and how we can learn to embrace challenging times by learning from wolves, from the cold, and how our ancestors dealt with the winter.
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1-Sentence-Summary: What Is Life? compresses a series of lectures given by the notorious physicist Erwin Schrรถdinger, and is a compelling research on how science, especially biology, chemistry and physics account for the ongoing process that the human body undertakes to simply exist and live.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Secret World of Weather is a guide to forecasting weather through various clues found in nature, such as plants, the wind, or clouds, to come up with an accurate calculation of the weather without having to check the news.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Genius of Dogs explores the curious mind of manโs best friend in relation to human intelligence, as dogs and humans are connected and have many similarities that make the relationship between them so strong and unique.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Forest Bathing explores the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku, a kind of forest therapy based on immersion in nature, and the various health and wellbeing benefits we can derive from it to live better, calmer lives.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The World Until Yesterday identifies some of the most valuable lessons we can learn from societies of the past like hunter-gatherers, including how to resolve conflicts better, more effective ways to raise children, how to stay healthier for longer, and much more.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Raising A Secure Child teaches new parents how to feel confident that they can meet their childโs needs without making them too attached by outlining the experience that Hoffman, Cooper, and Powell have in helping parents form healthy attachments with their kids in ways that help them avoid becoming too hard on themselves and their children.
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1-Sentence-Summary: How To Avoid A Climate Disaster is Bill Gatesโ plea to the individuals, governments, and business leaders of the world to reduce greenhouse emissions by changing the way we make things, plug in, grow things, get around, and keep warm and cool.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Green Illusions will open your mind to the true nature of our problem with energy by explaining the potential dangers and inefficiencies of alternative energy sources like wind, hydrogen, solar, and nuclear, and identifies the real culprit of our energy crisis and how to stop it.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Energy makes you smarter by helping you understand where this important aspect of our lives comes from, how weโve used it throughout history to get to where we are today, and why we need to be careful about how we consume it so that we can have a better future.
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