Since childhood, we have drawn houses, but we have rarely reflected on what they are, what they shelter, or what they leave out. In this book, Emanuele Coccia guides us through an intimate and delightful narrative to explore rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, and memories, presenting the house as a space for our relationship with the world and with ourselves. The book unfolds the experience of Metamorfoses [Metamorphoses] (Dantes, 2021), this time inviting us to enter the cocoons and ultimately redefine them. Drawings by the artist Luiz Zerbini serve as imagistic notes that create a new dialogue with the text, modulating possibilities.

Um rio um pássaro [A River a bird] features two texts by Ailton Krenak. The first text, with the same title as the book, dates back to the 1990s when Ailton traveled through various Indigenous lands accompanied by Japanese photographer Hiromi Nagakura. It presents reflections on life and memories of the formation of the Indigenous movement in Brazil. Until now, records of these talks had only been published in Japan. Uma cachoeira [A waterfall] is the title of the second text, also previously unpublished. In this 2023 piece, Ailton delves deeper into the theme of the cognitive abyss caused by the separation of culture and nature, as well as discussing neutrality as an ethical subterfuge in the face of environmental collapse.

Umbigo do Mundo is the result of "a conversation between the narrator and his daughter," as expressed by the author. Francisco and Francy guide us through a cosmological journey across the landscapes of Northwestern Amazonia, inviting us to attune our sensitivity and imagination to entities, creatures, plants, places, and events from an ancestral time—one that continues to resonate.

Biologist Lynn Margulis reveals to us the microcosm and its “incessant chemistry of self-maintenance.” Serpentine beings, swimming green microbes, cilia, tails, sperm, eggs, mitochondria, and spirochetes dance through time. Evolution is not a linear movement. Cells have memory. Each being is a design made from simple and complex associations of cells. There is more collaboration than competition. All organisms arose from symbiogenesis, from the cooperation among our earliest ancestors.

How can plants be teachers? How do the connections that reveal another language beyond words occur? Jeremy Narby, author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the origin of knowledge (Dantes, 2018), seeks understanding from science, even if he doesn't shy away from experience, or even start from it. Rafael Chanchari Pizuri, from the Shawi people, follows the tradition of the ‘médicos' [doctors], who specialise in healing through plants. To make up this braid of perspectives, we invited Peconquena to illustrate the publication. With her art, she reveals the 'owners' of the plants, the spirits who animate and protect tobacco, the ayahuasca vine and the chacrona.

With meticulous descriptions, Dorion Sagan introduces us to thirty living beings that we do not see, summarising what we know about these “other forms of life.” This book would be merely exotic if it did not address the vast majority of living beings in our world. These invisible beings are our elder siblings. They are around us, with us, inside us, living for us and against us. Without them, our existence would not be possible.

Every being undergoes metamorphosis. It is the elemental and original experience of life, defining its forces and limits. Since Darwin, we have known that any form of life—humans included—is merely the metamorphosis of another, often long gone. From our birth to our nourishment, we all go through this experience. In the metamorphic act, the transformation of self and the transformation of the world coincide. To affirm that any life is a metamorphic fact means that it traverses identities and worlds without ever passing through them passively. This groundbreaking book lays the foundations for a philosophy of metamorphosis.

This book interweaves objective and subjective perspectives. The author presents a new map with three pathways, or types of narratives, that lead to Gaia: Gaia in time, Gaia in its essence, and Gaia in the imagination. These three types of narratives, intertwined, offer a view from multiple perspectives. "The regeneration of Gaia – planet Earth – involves healing the fracture that exists between different ways of interpreting reality. It requires the creation of a skin of ideas and intentions capable of connecting these worldviews that have been reduced to modules..."

In 1978, the anthropologist Berta Gleizer Ribeiro, during a trip to the Rio Negro to research indigenous weaving, learnt that two Desana men had written down the mythology of their people. Berta went to meet them on the Tiquié River. They worked together for a month and a half. Berta typed, revised and rewrote the text of this book. She tells this story in the introduction to the first edition of 1980, reproduced in part in this edition. In 2018 we invited Tõrãmü Këhíri, then 70 years old, to Rio de Janeiro to establish this edition. Through long conversations, we made some changes to the previous editions, including new illustrations by Tõrãmü Këhíri, while fully respecting the previous pictorial narrative.

The sphere of life is more than a place, it's an event in continuous activity. Nothing here is inanimate. This book is about life, in other words, about everything. Everything is. Everything has been and will continue to be in constant exchange, in harmonic variations, since forever, before ever. Nothing is disassociated Biosphere was launched in Russia in 1926 and, until this edition, had not yet been translated into Portuguese.

Speaker of ancient Tupi, Nheengatu, and Guarani, João Barbosa Rodrigues published Mbaé Kaá, Tapyiyetá Enoyndauain 1905. This work is a powerful defence of Indigenous knowledge in the face of the scientific community. Even within the vocabulary of its time and the perspectives of the early 20th century, it is a fundamental book that supports the recognition of Indigenous wisdom in Brazil and around the world.

While studying the ecology of an Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, anthropologist Jeremy Narby finds himself faced with a mystery: the Indigenous people, whose botanical knowledge astounds scientists, invariably explain that their knowledge comes from certain teacher plants. Narby engages in a multidisciplinary investigation spanning ten years, from the Amazon rainforest to European libraries, during which he becomes convinced of the literal truth of these claims. The key to the mystery, according to Narby's bold hypothesis, lies in DNA, the molecule of life present in every cell of every living being.