The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
By: Adam Alexander
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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1. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
2. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
3. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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4. George: A Magpie Memoir
By: Frieda Hughes
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter… read more
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"The joy of such a purpose is that it gives you a reason to ignore everything else. There is nothing so effective in taking one's mind off the practical concerns of our lives as a living creature that…"-Frieda Hughes, George: A Magpie Memoir
5. Swim Home to the Vanished
By: Brendan Shay Basham
3.35
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the river swallowed Kai, Damien’s little brother didn’t die so much as vanish. As the unbea… read more
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6. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more
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7. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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8. Ladies of the Lake
By: Cathy Gohlke
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
After two young women’s deep bond is torn apart, what will it take to bring them together again? In… read more
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9. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
By: Trish O'Kane
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more
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10. You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer
By: Joy Marie Clarkson
4.10
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In a world dominated by technology and efficiency, we speak of ourselves as we process things, we … read more
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11. Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
By: Nicklas Brendborg
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Sunday Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" … read more
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12. The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
By: Adam Alexander
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ever wonder how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash and sweetcorn ended up on our plates? Well, so… read more
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- plants
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13. Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
By: Rebecca Heisman
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology th… read more
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14. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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15. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
By: William Alexander
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more
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16. Calm Your Mind with Food: A Revolutionary Guide to Controlling Your Anxiety
By: Uma Naidoo
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary look at the surprising connections between anxiety, immunity, and gut health, with … read more
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17. Calico
By: Lee Goldberg
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigat… read more
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18. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
By: Roma Agrawal
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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19. Night, Forgotten
By: Meghan Joyce Tozer
3.67
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
A dramatic and undeniably addictive psychological thriller about a young woman whose life changes i… read more
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20. Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world's most successful people
By: Polina Marinova Pompliano
3.92
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
What distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great? After five years of writing The Pr… read more
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21. A Year of Last Things: Poems
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.61
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more
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22. The Lost Van Gogh
By: Jonathan Santlofer
3.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the much-praised The Last Mona Lisa comes another thrilling story of masterpiece… read more
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23. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
24. The Purest Bond: Understanding the Human–Canine Connection
By: Jen Golbeck
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A feel-good, comprehensive exploration of the profound bond between humans and dogs from Jen Golbec… read more
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25. A History of the Human Brain
By: Bret Stetka
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted.” —Psych… read more
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26. The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
By: Simon Parkin
3.95
Format: 432 pages, ebook
The remarkable untold story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arreste… read more
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27. The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
By: Isabella Tree
4.55
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Get this great… read more
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28. Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
By: Theresa Levitt
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A story of alchemy in Bohemian Paris, where two scientific outcasts discovered a fundamental distin… read more
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29. Letters from Guantánamo
By: Mansoor Adayfi
4.19
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia… read more
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30. Radiation Therapy and You: Support for People with Cancer
By: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
3.50
Format: 63 pages, Kindle Edition
Radiation Therapy and You is a booklet for people who are undergoing radiation therapy for cancer. … read more
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31. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.38
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more
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