# Alive

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- Book: [Alive](https://www.bookquiver.com/melanie-challenger/alive) ([Alive.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/melanie-challenger/alive.md))
- Authors: [Melanie Challenger](https://www.bookquiver.com/melanie-challenger)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4313-781-8
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2026-08-11
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A major work of interdisciplinary nonfiction that redefines how we understand life, agency, and intelligence What does it mean to be alive? The slow contortion of a plant toward light, the dive of hawks...