Coming Summer 2024:

Trash Talk: An Eye-Opening Exploration of Our Planet’s Dirtiest Problem
Published by TarcherPerigee

An in-depth look into the weird, fascinating and dark world of global garbage. In a world of mass consumption and busy schedules, taking the time to understand our own trash habits can be daunting. Trash Talk pulls back the curtain on the intricacies of the global trash production system and its contribution to climate change. From the history of the mafia’s rule of the New York sanitation system to orbital debris (space trash) to the myth of recycling, Trash Talk shines a much-needed light on a system that has been broken for far too long, providing readers with surprising, disgusting, and insightful information to better understand how we affect garbage and how it affects us.

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Everything Is Temporary: Illustrated Contemplations On How Death Shapes Our Lives
Published by TarcherPerigee

Everything Is Temporary is an exploration into what it means to be alive and what it means to die. Meandering through how we grapple with fear, anxiety, grief and the larger metaphysical questions of the big unknown, this book is an invitation to acknowledge and think about the fate that awaits us all and the ways in which we can move through our experience of others dying. Death is inevitable for us all and we could all benefit from talking about it more with ourselves and our loved ones.

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Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression
Published by Chronicle Books

Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal—yet universal—facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience. This book is an essential tool for understanding and contributing to a necessary cultural conversation, bringing clarity and reassurance to the sometimes confusing process of navigating ones' identity. Whether LGBTQ+, cisgender, or nonbinary, Seeing Gender is a must-read for intelligent, curious, want-to-be woke people who care about how we see and talk about gender and sexuality in the 21st century.

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Seeing Science: An Illustrated Guide to the Wonders of the Universe, 
Published by Chronicle Books

Science is really beautiful. With original illustrations that deftly explain the strange-but-true world of science, Seeing Science offers a curated ride through the great mysteries of the universe. Artist and lay scientist Iris Gottlieb explains among other things: neap tides, naked mole rats, whale falls, the human heart, the Uncertainty Principle, the ten dimensions of string theory, and how glaciers are like Snickers bars. With quirky visual metaphors and concise factual explanations, she offers just the right amount of information to stoke the curious mind with a desire to know more about the life forces that animate both the smallest cell and the biggest black hole. Seeing Science illustrates, explicates, and celebrates the marvels of science as only art can.

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Natural Attraction: A Field Guide to Friends, Frenemies and Other Symbiotic Animal Relationships
Published by Sasquatch Books

Best buds, frenemies, freeloaders, bullies, copycats, hangers-on. We re accustomed to all types of people and human interactions. But animal relationships can be just as weird and complex. For anyone who s everfelt a bit awkward in their relationships, wait until you hear about how complicated things get in the animal world. This funny and enlightening gift book depicts charming and unusual symbiotic animal relationships in all their awkward glory.