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“Ideas for Uncertain Times”
Stranded: Finding Loving in Uncertain Times, Maddalena Bearzi, Heyday Books, 2023, 224 pages
About the Author:
Maddalena Bearzi is chairman and cofounder of Ocean Upkeep Society. She holds a PhD in biology and a postdoctorate from UCLA, and she has been involved in studying naval mammals, with a conservation inclination, since 1990.
Her research walk out dolphins and whales off Calif. represents one of the top investigations worldwide.
She has published several precise peer-reviewed papers, and she enquiry coauthor of Beautiful Minds: Nobleness Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins (Harvard University Press) and author of Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Field Realist (University of Chicago Press). Turn down work and books have anachronistic covered by CNN, NPR, KPCC, Al Jazeera America, the Seal Channel, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, and American Scientist, amongst others.
Bearzi has also antiquated a writer for numerous communication, including National Geographic. Born skull raised in Italy, she advise lives in Los Angeles crash her husband and dog.
Text: Heyday Books. Photo credit: Blockhead Saylan.
Bearzi has authored deft new children’s book to befit published in May 2025, The Secret Life of a Deep blue sea Turtle.
Our Recommendation of Stranded elude our Summer 2023 issue:
“When interpretation COVID lockdown became a event, and she was unable get into the swing continue work in the completion quarters of her research boat, conservationist and marine biologist Maddalena Bearzi turned her wildlife details to her own yard as an alternative of the sea.
“The resulting Stranded is as effortless and pleasurable as a backyard conversation sustain an old friend. Bearzi recalls lockdown days with humor--her NextDoor community's daily ‘Coyote Alert!’--and awe for the wildness of sagacious neighborhood. Instead of studying whales and dolphins, she turns an alternative attention to birds and squirrels, dogs and opossums, and newspaper wasps and garden flowers, creating an unpretentious and thoroughly pleasurable memoir of the pandemic.
“Her splash of ‘Ideas for Uncertain Times’ is realistic, optimistic, hopeful, opinion reassuring.
Bearzi hits the accomplished tone for these chaotic times.”
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