Emeran Mayer’s The Mind-Gut Connection reads like an extended, lucid argument built at the crossroads of medicine, neuroscience and narrative. Its central thesis—that the brain and the gut are in ongoing, bidirectional conversation and that this dialogue shapes mood, behaviour, and health—will be familiar to readers of contemporary popular science. What Mayer achieves, however, is … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversations Within Our Bodies Impact our Mood, Our Choices, and Our overall Health by Emeran Mayer
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince is short, surgical, and—for better or worse—one of the landmark provocations of Western political thought. Written in the wake of his fall from official favour and composed around 1513, the work was not printed until 1532, after Machiavelli’s death; its compactness is part of its power: in a few dozen chapters … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine
Margaret Lobenstine’s Renaissance Soul speaks directly to a contemporary psychological species: the person who delights in more than one thing and hates the shrink-wrap of a single career identity. Rather than treating multi-interest lives as a problem to be cured, Lobenstine treats them as a design challenge—one that asks readers to reconfigure time, narrative, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life is at once a popular-science exploration, a piece of natural history, and a sustained act of imaginative reorientation. The book’s central achievement is pedagogical and ethical: it trains the reader to look at fungi not as a shadowy footnote in the story of living things, but as a set of processes … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures by Merlin Sheldrake
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools by Mara Krechevsky
Mara Krechevsky’s Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools reads less like a conventional how-to manual and more like a practiced ethnography of classrooms — an ars poetica for teachers who want to see what learning looks like when it is taken seriously as an object of attention. The book’s clear, capacious argument is … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools by Mara Krechevsky
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell by Sy Montgomery
Sy Montgomery has long worked at the attentive edge where natural history becomes moral philosophy, and Of Time and Turtles picks up — with a patient, heartbreakingly reverent hand — the threads that connect bodily fragility to planetary repair. The book stages the turtle’s shell as both literal armor and fragile archive: a record of past injuries, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell by Sy Montgomery
The Adaptable Educator’s book Review – Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady
David Suzuki & Wayne Grady’s Tree, A Life Story stages a quiet but insistent argument: to know a tree is to know a world. At once elegy, primer, and manifesto, the book reframes arboreal biography as a mode of ethical attention. Suzuki’s scientific gravitas and Grady’s narrative tact combine to make a book that is neither pure … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s book Review – Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart
Amy Stewart’s The Tree Collectors – Tales of Arboreal Obsession is a masterful fusion of natural history, biography, and cultural critique, offering a multifaceted portrait of humanity’s enduring fixation with trees. Rather than a linear narrative, Stewart assembles a compendium of “tales”—ranging from Renaissance botanists who risked everything to sketch exotic saplings, to modern-day activists … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods by Holly Worton
Holly Worton’s If Trees Could Talk artfully weaves poetic reflection, personal narrative, and ecological insight into a tapestry that encourages readers to listen more attentively to the natural world. At once intimate and expansive, Worton’s prose invites us to regard trees not merely as silent sentinels of our landscape but as teachers bearing vital lessons about resilience, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods by Holly Worton
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Who Moved My Cheese? by Spenser Johnson
“Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson presents itself as a deceptively simple fable, yet beneath its pared‑down narrative lies a rich allegory about change, fear, and human adaptation. Framed as a parable of two mice—Sniff and Scurry—and two “littlepeople”—Hem and Haw—who live in a maze in search of cheese, Johnson’s novella crystallizes complex psychological … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Who Moved My Cheese? by Spenser Johnson
The New Renaissance Mindset 