Join us for our monthly Environmental Book Club discussion night! Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of every month, except December.
For more information, visit riveraction.org/bookclub or email
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**JULY'S PICK - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake**
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.
“Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.
In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original, features more than one hundred full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness, and beauty of fungi to life as never before.
Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.
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Missed July's Book Club? Check out August's Pick - The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Shedyder
You may also like the following events from River Action Quad Cities:
- This Thursday, 17th July, 09:00 am, Channel Cat Tour: Channel Cat - Behind the Scenes Jennifer Hirsch & Jake Cassidy in Moline
- This Saturday, 19th July, 09:00 am, Riverine Walk: A Story of Growing Regeneratively w/Tapestry Farms Exec. Director, Ann McGlynn in Davenport
- Next Tuesday, 22nd July, 09:00 am, Channel Cat Tour: Our Unique River Landscape w/Dr. Norm Moline, Augustana Professor in Moline
Also check out other
Arts events in Davenport,
Literary Art events in Davenport,
Meetups in Davenport.
