Becoming Gaia
Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation by Sean Kelly addresses our living in end times—climate chaos, accelerating mass extinction, and signs of civilizational collapse drawing the Earth community into a planetary near-death experience. Yet these end times also mark the threshold of a new planetary identity in the making. Drawing on scholarship from […]
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles for over thirty years about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with three—including How to Change […]
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly wants you to see planet Earth the way you’d see a person waking up—slowly becoming aware of itself, through us, at exactly the moment it may need that awareness most. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kelly has spent decades tracing how human consciousness is evolving in response to the crises of […]
The Epigenetics Revolution
The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey provides a readily understandable introduction to a field that can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. Epigenetics explains why mapping an organism’s genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts, showing how nurture combines with nature to […]
Maps of Time
Maps of Time by David Christian introduces a new way of looking at history from a perspective stretching from the beginning of time to the present day—world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, Christian views the interaction of the natural world with more recent arrivals in flora and fauna, including human […]
Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups
Paul Atkins, David Sloan Wilson, and Steven Hayes bring together evolutionary science, Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize-winning research on cooperation, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to create a transformative approach for building productive, equitable, and collaborative groups. “Prosocial” offers both theoretical foundation and practical tools for anyone working to strengthen cooperation within teams, organizations, or […]
Awakening Earth
Duane Elgin presents a comprehensive vision of human evolution spanning from our origins as hunter-gatherers 35,000 years ago through seven distinct stages of development toward planetary civilization, arguing that we are approaching a critical pivot point where Earth’s biosphere is being wounded by humanity even as humanity enables Earth’s awakening as a conscious global organism. […]
Cultural Evolution
Ronald Inglehart presents a comprehensive theory demonstrating that people’s values and behaviors are fundamentally shaped by “existential security”—the extent to which survival is taken for granted—with societies experiencing scarcity and insecurity emphasizing group solidarity, traditional values, and obedience to strong leaders, while prosperous and secure societies embrace diversity, change, and self-expression values like environmentalism, gender […]
The Chalice and the Blade
Riane Eisler’s groundbreaking international bestseller weaves together evidence from art, archaeology, religion, social science, and history to tell a revolutionary story of human cultural origins, demonstrating that war and the “war of the sexes” are neither divinely nor biologically ordained but represent a departure from earlier partnership-oriented societies. Through meticulous research forming new patterns that […]
This View of Life
David Sloan Wilson argues that while Charles Darwin’s theory revolutionized biology, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete until evolutionary principles are applied more broadly to everything associated with human behavior, culture, and policy-making. Through engaging and insightful examples—from hen breeding to cataract surgery timing to automobile plant organization—Wilson demonstrates how an evolutionary worldview provides […]
Punctuated Equilibrium
Stephen Jay Gould’s definitive exploration of punctuated equilibrium—the revolutionary theory he introduced with Niles Eldredge in 1972 that challenged Darwin’s assumption of gradual evolutionary change—presents his only book-length testament on the idea that launched his career as one of the most influential evolutionary biologists since Darwin. Punctuated equilibrium holds that the great majority of species […]
Jump Time
Jean Houston presents in-depth evidence that humanity is experiencing a unique period of rapid global and personal transformation—what she calls “Jump Time”—that will fundamentally change human nature for the better as we enter a new millennium where what we have scarcely dared to dream is beginning to reveal its shape. Houston argues that the spectacular […]
The Biology of Transcendence
Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926-2016) examines brain research to explore how humans can transcend current physical and cultural limitations, revealing that recent neuroscience and neurocardiology research identifies four neural centers in the brain plus a fifth center located in the heart, with evolutionary structures designed by nature to reach beyond our current capacities. Pearce argues that […]
Biology Revisioned
Willis Harman and Elizabet Sahtouris challenge the fundamental assumptions of modern science by proposing that biology, rather than physics, should serve as the root discipline of scientific inquiry, arguing that this shift would require analyzing wholes (organisms and ecological systems) before parts (fundamental particles) and fundamentally transform how we understand life sciences. The authors suggest […]
The Hidden Life of Trees
Forester and author Peter Wohlleben draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to reveal that forests function as complex social networks where trees behave remarkably like human families—with tree parents living alongside their children, communicating through chemical signals and underground fungal networks, sharing nutrients with sick or struggling members, and warning each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben’s […]
Symbiotic Planet
Renowned scientist Lynn Margulis revolutionizes our understanding of evolution by demonstrating that symbiosis—members of different species living in physical contact with each other—is crucial to the origins of evolutionary novelty, filling gaps left unanswered by Darwin’s theory of natural selection about how variant organisms come to exist in the first place. Margulis explains how symbiotic […]