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The Rain Garden
Anjali Thakker
Michigan Publishing Services, 2023
This book was the capstone project for the course "Culture, Nature, and landscape" taught by Dr. Sara Adlerstein at the School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, 2021. The charge for the students was to create a picture book for children that conveyed information about urban gardens in away that was simple and engaging. The goal was to empower children to be part of the solution.
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Realist Magic
Objects, Ontology, Causality
Timothy Morton
Michigan Publishing Services, 2013
Object-oriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in physics since 1900. Causality, argues OOO, is aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physics, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.
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River in the City
Janet Skrbina
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

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A Robin's Journey
Emma Sloan
Michigan Publishing Services, 2023
This book was created for the course titled “Nature, Culture, & Landscape” taught by Sara Adlerstein at the University of Michigan, School for Environment & Sustainability. The objective was to create a book that uses the topic of urban gardening to teach young readers about the importance of environmental stewardship—respecting and caring for Earth and the diversity of life it sustains.
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