Best Reads 2022 at BCIT Library: Environment & Nature

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"Nicolson has written an utterly captivating saga of life and death, commensalism and competition, and fragility and endurance, all emanating from his exquisitely detailed observations of tidal pools and their inhabitants." From Choice

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'Drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, this explosive work of investigative reporting reveals for the first time the far-right conspiracy that’s stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis." From Greystone Books

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"Kate Beaton shares the brutal reality of her early professional life. As a new grad who needs to pay back her student loans, she moves to an isolated part of Canada, Fort McMurray, for a job in the male-dominated oil industry. The beautifully drawn Ducks offers us a haunting look at the isolation and misogyny endemic to the profession – as well as small moments of hope and tenderness." From NPR

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"Ed Yong takes us on “a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception” (The New York Times), allowing us to experience the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that other animals perceive." From the publisher

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands and what their systematic destruction means for the planet “is both an enchanting work of nature writing and a rousing call to action” From Esquire