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The Art of Stillness (2014) reflects on the importance of slowing down and welcoming moments of quiet in a chaotic world. Iyer explores the lives of writers who’ve sought stillness and draws on his own life as a travel writer.

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Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist and the director of the Quantum Gravity research group at the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille, France. He’s authored several best-selling books on physics including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, and The Order of Time.

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Guido Tonelli is an Italian particle physicist who played a key role in the discovery of the Higgs boson. He’s currently a CERN visiting scientist, and professor of General Physics at the University of Pisa.

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James Donovan is an American author specializing in popular history. His previous best-selling books include A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – the Last Great Battle of the American West (2008) and The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo – and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation (2012). He lives in Dallas, Texas.

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Adventures in the Anthropocene (2014) explores how humanity has altered the planet so radically in recent decades that a new geological epoch is said to be coming into being – we’re crossing over from the Holocene to the Anthropocene, or the Age of Man. Author Gaia Vince examines what the changes we’ve made really mean for the world. From disappearing islands to urban slums, from Mekong fishermen to ancient nomadic tribes in Kenya, these blinks tell the story of our new relationship with nature and our hopes for the future.

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