Lessons for Survival By Emily Raboteau Material:Hard Cover Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a

Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a cultural and biological history from the origins and ancient routes of silk to the biologists who learned the secrets of silk-producing animals

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Lessons for Survival By Emily Raboteau Material:Hard Cover Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is aAward winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justiceand what it takes to find shelter. Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without coming undone in an era of turbulent intersecting crises. With camera in hand, Raboteau goes in search of birds, fluttering in