The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants
By: Leigh Calvez
3.85
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the P…
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1. The Log from the Sea of Cortez
By: John Steinbeck , Richard Astro
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate edition can be found here. In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his grea… read more
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- nature
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long"-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"The paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
2. The Incredible Journey
By: Sheila Burnford
4.16
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, … read more
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- animals
"He broke into a run, faster and faster, until the years fell away, and he hurled himself towards Peter. And as he had never run before, as though he would outdistance time, Peter was running towards …"-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
"Lying awake in the dark that night,unable to sleep, he thought he would have given anything to feel the heavy thud on the bed that used to announce the old dog's arrival. How extremely unloving and i…"-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
"Anyone unaccustomed to the rather peculiar points of bull terrier beauty would have thought him a strange if not downright ugly dog, with the maked, down-faced arc of his profile, his deep-chested, s…"-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey
3. Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
By: Wendy Williams
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most … read more
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4. Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
By: Gary Smith
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or th… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. And Another Thing... (Hitchhiker's Guide, #6)
By: Eoin Colfer
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
AN ENGLISHMAN'S CONTINUING SEARCH THROUGH SPACE AND TIME FOR A DECENT CUP OF TEA... Arthur Dent's a… read more
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- audiobook
6. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
By: Maryanne Wolf
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The act of reading is a miracle. Every new reader's brain possesses the extraordinary capacity to r… read more
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7. Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
By: Susan Casey
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
From Susan Casey, the New York Timesbestselling author of The Waveand The Devil's Teeth, a breathta… read more
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8. Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
By: None
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The orca--otherwise known as the killer whale--is one of earth's most intelligent animals. Remarkab… read more
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9. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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10. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
By: Charles Seife
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it… read more
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11. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more
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"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
12. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
By: Marie Favereau
3.84
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them―not just conquerors but also city builder… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- science
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
14. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
15. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
By: Jill Heinerth
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s fin… read more
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- science
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
16. The French Ingredient: A Memoir
By: Jane Bertch
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
17. Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
By: Ron Cowen
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of re… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more
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- ecology
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- nature
- science
19. The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants
By: Leigh Calvez
3.85
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the P… read more
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- ecology
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- biology
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- science nature
- nature
- audiobook
20. How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
By: Tom Mustill
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who wen… read more
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- ecology
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- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard…"-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
21. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
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- ecology
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- science nature
- nature
- audiobook
"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
22. Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
By: Sara Dykman
3.85
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award Sara Dykman made history when she became the first … read more
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- audiobook
"If all of us committed to one footprint of land...the world would be a better place."-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
"We call government support to farmers "subsidies." Support for poor people is instead referred to as "welfare."-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
"Monarch Watch estimates that each day, 6,000 acres of Monarch breeding habitat in the United States are converted to something else."-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
"When I was young, I would ride my bike until I was lost...the realization that I could get where I was going on my own, under my own power, unclocked a bigger world for me."-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
23. Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
By: Marcia Bjornerud
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us hav… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Antipathy toward time clouds personal and collective thinking."-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
"This impression is a glimpse not of timelessness but timefulness, an acute consciousness of how the world is made by - indeed, made of - time."-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
"I emphasize that my job is not to challenge their personal beliefs but to teach the logic of geology (geo-logic?) - the methods and tools of the discipline that enables us not only to comprehend how …"-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
"Over human timescales, however, our disruption of geography will haunt us. Soil lost to erosion, coastal areas claimed by the sea, and mountaintops sacrificed on the altar of capitalism won't be rest…"-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
24. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
By: Nick Pyenson
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Smithsonian's star paleontologist takes us to the ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of … read more
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- audiobook
"We, as paleontologists, are used to asking questions without having all the facts."-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with awe, terror, and affection. We have hunted them for thousands of years a…"-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
25. Fathoms: The World in the Whale
By: Rebecca Giggs
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australi… read more
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- science nature
- nature
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26. Introduction to Psychology
By: Catherine A. Sanderson
4.10
Format: 19 pages, Audible Audio
18 hours and 7 minutes Psychology in the 21st century is not the seemingly static clinical field… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
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27. Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea
By: Richard J. King
3.95
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, dis… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
28. The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
By: William Poundstone
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? , a fascinating look at how an equation … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
29. You Didn't Mention the Piranhas
By: Sarah Nelson Smith
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How to live more bravely and successfully navigate through any disaster In 2018, award-winning lawy… read more
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30. The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
By: David Abulafia
4.23
Format: 1088 pages, Hardcover
A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the aw… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
31. Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
By: Juli Berwald
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters to us all Coral reefs are … read more
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