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Physician Associate and Spiritual Coach Elizabeth M. Lykins Says Lasting Change Begins in Stillness
An urgent care provider since 1996, Elizabeth wrote Reflections on Transcendence, which features 59 paintings by her lifelong friend, the late expressionist Steven D. Lyons, who selected each painting to match the text.

End Times Fascism: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Map a Far Right Preparing to Survive the Collapse It Is Causing
Out on 15 September from Allen Lane, the book grows a 5,000-word Guardian essay into a 384-page argument that Christian Zionists, Silicon Valley accelerationists and border-hardening governments now share one belief, that a cataclysm is coming and only a deserving few need saving from it, and answers with a politics of staying put.

Beautifully Unbroken Review: The Shower Shirt Inventor's Breast Cancer Memoir Begins with the Loss of Her Mother
The medical journalist who patented The Shower Shirt after her own mastectomy tells the story behind it, and the story of the mother she lost two weeks after her wedding, in a memoir that will be of most use to a woman with surgery ahead of her.

Regime Change- Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Haberman and Swan report that in the summer of 2025 the White House Situation Room, the secure complex from which a president once watched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, was turned to a very different purpose. According to their account, the most senior officials in the government gathered there, in the room built for the gravest decisions of national security, not to weigh a threat to the country but to manage a political crisis over the Jeffrey Epstein files. The authors describe a facility meant to protect the nation used instead to protect one man's reputation. If the reporting holds, it is the book's argument made concrete, the machinery of the state quietly turned towards the interests of the person at its head.

Dan Mrejeru's Speakingman: A Geologist's Theory on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
The Romanian-born engineer has spent two decades arguing that planetary cooling, not diet or mutation, rewired the hominin brain and produced human language. The seventh edition of The Speakingman arrives this month.

Climate Scientist Norm Leo Says Going Green Pays Better Than You Think
A climate scientist who has given more than 700 talks argues that sustainability is not about sacrifice. His new book maps the personal returns of every major climate solution.

45 Lessons from Kohala’s ‘Outhouse Mentality’ About Community, Humility And How To Live With Less On Lava Shorelines
Jeffrey Coakley’s Outhouse Mentality honours Kohala’s rural lifestyle, preserving oral histories, spearfishing and plantation past centred on community.

The Man Behind the Rock Hits’ Unwritten Chapters: Larry Coffman’s Strange, Sweet and Surprising Side of Music History
Larry Coffman’s new book uncovers stories behind iconic songs – from petty slights to studio mishaps – revealing rock history’s human heart. For music fans.

The Man Behind The Camera: Michael A. Nowotny’s Adventure Through The ‘Stadiums Of America’
Photographer Michael Nowotny reimagines America’s sports stadiums in ‘Stadiums of America’ – an art book that reveals architecture, memory and shared emotion.

The Living Archive Capturing An Intimate Portrait Of China’s Last Reindeer Herders
Wang Wei’s decade with the Ewenki reindeer herders in Inner Mongolia yields a rich ethnographic photo-book that honours cultural heritage and hard-won trust.

Windows Into Vietnamese Daily Life: Finding Connection In The Mosaic Of Contrasts
Réhahn’s Vietnam trilogy reveals authentic daily life and heritage through mindful photography, fostering cultural connection beyond tourist snapshots.

Nuclear Power Without the Spin: Dr Mary Fran Reed on Facing Climate Change With Open Eyes
Dr Mary Fran Reed explores nuclear energy’s role in climate change, balancing science, safety and sustainability for a clean, resilient future