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Biology: Book Review Assignment

New & Notable

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez
Call Number: GN476.7 .H47 2022
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans (eBook Public Library) by Cynthia Barnett
Only available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries:
ebook & book
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall; Douglas Abrams
Call Number: BD216 .G663 2021
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg
Call Number: HC79.C6 S258 2019
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Drought, Flood, Fire (eBook) by Chris C. Funk
Call Number: QC981.8.C53
ISBN: 9781108839877
Publication Date: 2021
Also available as a book at KCC Library
GE196 .B97 2017
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret (eBook) by Catherine Coleman Flowers
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places by Julian Hoffman
Call Number: QH75 .H63 2020
ISBN: 9780820357683
Publication Date: 2020
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change. by Bren Smith
Call Number: SH390.5 .S65 2019
This ebook and book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (eBook) by Katharine K. Wilkinson; Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Editors)
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

Hawaii Books

Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai‘i (eBook) by Daniel Lewis
Call Number: QL684.H3 L49 2018
Also available as a book at KCC Library
GL684.H3 L49 2018. This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Isles of Amnesia: The History, Geography, and Restoration of America's Forgotten Pacific Islands (eBook) by Mark J. Rauzon
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Thinking Like an Island: Navigating a Sustainable Future in Hawaiʻi (eBook) by J Chirico; G Farley (Eds.)
Also available at Hawai'i & Pacific Collection HC107.H33 E585 2015
Restoring Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawai‘i (eBook) by Robert J. Cabin
Also available at Hawai'i & Pacific Collection QH198.H3 C23 2013.
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i: A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark (eBook) by David A. Burney
Call Number: DU628.K3 B87 2010
Also available at Hawai'i & Pacific Collection DU628.K3 B87 2010
The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird: The Discovery and Death of the Po'ouli by Alvin Powell
Call Number: UH Mānoa & UH Hilo
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Islands in a Far Sea: The Fate of Nature in Hawaii (eBook) by John L. Culliney
Also available as a book at KCC Hawai'i & Pacific Collection QH198.H3 C85 1988.
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island (eBook) by Mark Jerome Walters
Also available as a book at KCC Hawai'i & Pacific Collection QL696.P2367 W35 2006 . This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival by Carl Safina
Call Number: QL696.P63 S24 2002
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
By Wind, By Wave by David L. Eyre
Call Number: QH198.H3 E86 2000 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

Climate Change

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
Call Number: QC903 .G378 202
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann
Call Number: GE170 .M365 2021
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
Call Number: SF140.C57 F64 2020
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here. by Hope Jahren
Call Number: Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Publication Date: 2021-11-02
This book is only available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres; Tom Rivett-Carnac
Also available as a book at UH Mānoa. This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Our House Is on Fire Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis (eBook) by Greta Thunberg; Svante Thunberg; Malena Ernman; Beata Ernman
Also available as a book at KCC Library
QQC903 .T58 2020. This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Ice at the End of the World An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future. by Jon Gertner
Call Number: UH Libraries
Publication Date: 2019-06-11
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Call Number: UH Libraries
This ebook and book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
Call Number: GB459.4 .R86 2019
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

Waste, Water, & Environmental Justice

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
Call Number: RA591 .C53 2018
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas
Call Number: HD9940.A2 T46 2019
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World by Judith D. Schwartz
Call Number: HD1691 .S839 2019
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (eBook) by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Also available as a book at KCC Library E98.P5 K56 2020. This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes
Call Number: TD788 .H86 2012
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Big Necessity The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George
Call Number: RA567 .G46 2008
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

Extinction & Evolution

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
Call Number: QE721.2.E97 B73 2018
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals by Ross D. E. MacPhee
Call Number: QL88 .M327 2019
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet and Ourselves by Leslie Anthony
Call Number: QH353 .A68 2017
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
Call Number: QH75 .W536 2017
ISBN: 9781631492525
Publication Date: 2017
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz
Call Number: GF86 .N485 2013
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Call Number: RA639 .Q83 2012
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

Organism & Ecosystems

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman
Only available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries:
ebook & book
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Call Number: UH Hilo
Apart from UH Hilo, this book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther by Craig Pittman
Call Number: QL737.C23 P58 2021
ISBN: 9781335482211
Publication Date: 2021
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Slime How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us by Ruth Kassinger
Call Number: QK566 .K37 2020
This ebook and book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Emperors of the Deep: Sharks, The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever
Call Number: QL638.9 .M344 2020
ISBN: 9780062880338
Publication Date: 2020-
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Buzz, Sting, Bite Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Call Number: QL463 .S8213 2019
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters by Sean B. Carroll
Call Number: UH Mānoa
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg
Call Number: QL696.C6 G74 2014
ISBN: 9781620405369
Publication Date: 2014
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

Oceans & Fisheries

Fathoms The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
Call Number: Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
This book is only available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease by Drew Harvell
Call Number: UH Mānoa & Kauaʻi CC
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves by Bill Streever
Call Number: GC21 .S826 2020
ISBN: 9780316551342
Publication Date: 2020
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet by Paul Greenberg
Call Number: Leeward CC
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures by Nicholas Pyenson
Call Number: LCC & WCC
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods by Danna Staaf
Call Number: Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
This book is only available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald
Call Number: QL377.S4 B47 2017
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate by Lee van der Voo
Call Number: SH328 .V36 2016
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

Food & Agriculture

Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food by Lenore Newman
Call Number: Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
This book is only available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture by Kristin Lawless
Call Number: RA784 .L39 2018
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats by Maryn McKenna
Call Number: SF98.A5 M35 2017
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future by Rob Dunn
Call Number: S494.5.A43 D86 2017
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (eBook) by Barry Estabrook
Also available as a book at KCC Library SB349 .E78 2011.
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

DNA, Genetics, & Biotech

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna; Samuel H. Sternberg
Call Number: QH440 .D68 2018
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction by Beth Shapiro
Call Number: HCC, WCC, UH Mānoa, UH Hilo
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene by Emily Monosson
Publication Date: 2014-10-28
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

Biographies, Memoirs, and History of Science

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World by Andrea Barnet
Call Number: HQ1123 .B3575 2018
This book is also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Call Number: QH31.J344 A3 2016
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
Call Number: UH Mānoa, UH Maui, UH Hilo
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring by William Souder
Call Number: UH Hilo
This ebook & book are also available at Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries

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