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…
Want to Read $ 11.99"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 to make a garbage bin that bears couldn’t break into, said, “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
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1. The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
By: Philip Hoare
3.83
Format: 496 pages,
The whale is the largest, loudest, oldest animal ever to have existed. It is improbable, amazing, a… read more
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- biology
- animals
- natural history
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- nature
- science
2. Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
By: Eva Saulitis
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an e… read more
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3. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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4. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- ecology
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- nonfiction
- environment
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- audiobook
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
5. Elolliset
By: Iida Turpeinen
4.38
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Vuonna 1741 luonnontieteilijä ja teologi Georg Wilhelm Steller seilaa kapteeni Vitus Beringin retki… read more
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- environment
- animals
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- audiobook
6. 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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- audiobook
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"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
7. 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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- science
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
8. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
9. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- biology
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
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- audiobook
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
10. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- science
- ecology
- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
11. Luonnollinen näytelmä
By: Ulla Donner
4.10
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Minä olen ainutlaatuinen ja itsevarma. Minä kutsun positiivista energiaa elämääni. Minä ansaitsen k… read more
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12. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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- science
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
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- audiobook
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
13. Esseitä eläimistä
By: Elisa Aaltola
4.33
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Miksi pienessä kylässä kasvava maalaislapsi alkaa puhua eläinten puolesta? Miten yhteiskunta reagoi… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- audiobook
14. Puhe eläinten puolesta
By: Elisa Aaltola
4.03
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Kiitetty kirjailija, tutkija ja filosofi Elisa Aaltola pureutuu kirjassaan Puhe eläinten puolesta s… read more
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- animals
- audiobook
15. 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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- science
- ecology
- language
- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- 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
16. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
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- audiobook
17. Punainen noita
By: Jenna Kostet
3.95
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
"Ei, Valpuri ajatteli. Ajatus oli kirkas ja korvensi häntä aivan kuin hänen sydämensä tilalla olisi… read more
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18. Pimeä aika: Kymmenen myyttiä keskiajasta
By: Jaakko Tahkokallio
3.82
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Huppupäiset pyövelit katkovat ihmisten kauloja, noitia poltetaan, taikausko kukoistaa. Kirkko päätt… read more
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- audiobook
19. 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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"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
20. The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
By: Karen Bakker
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s sounds The natural world teems with remarkabl… read more
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- ecology
- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"Scientists still do not have a comprehensive understanding of plant signaling mechanisms, although they do know that perception of a sound vibration can cause changes in plant hormones, gene expressi…"-Karen Bakker, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
"the unfolding waves of sound are like an underwater orchestra or the endless improvisation of a jazz band. On the Great Barrier Reef, the humpback whales sing the soprano melody. Fish supply the chor…"-Karen Bakker, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
21. Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
By: Paco Calvo
3.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelli… read more
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- biology
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- nonfiction
- environment
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- audiobook
22. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
By: Johan Eklöf
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more
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- science
- ecology
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
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"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
23. Paskat geenit? - Uusin tieto ylipainon syistä ja sen hoidosta
By: Emilia Huvinen
3.91
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
Enemmän armollisuutta ja ymmärrystä, vähemmän tahdonvoimaa ja häpeää. Ylipaino liitetään edellee… read more
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- audiobook
24. Naisia jotka etsivät suurta tulta
By: Moona Laakso
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Moona Laakson Naisia jotka etsivät suurta tulta kertoo 1900-luvulla eläneistä naisista, jotka halus… read more
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25. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
By: Hannah Stowe
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A sensuous book, more felt than described, more described than explained, more painted than part … read more
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- ecology
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26. Merten jättiläinen – Valaiden arvoitusta etsimässä
By: Jessica Haapkylä
3.35
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Jessica Haapkylän tarinallinen tietokirja Merten jättiläinen vie valassafareille sekä Pohjois-Norja… read more
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- nature
27. Animal Languages
By: Eva Meijer
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How animals speak to each other and to humans, from chimpanzees who learn sign language to dogs who… read more
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- language
- biology
- animals
- natural history
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28. Kenen Kalevala?
By: Juha Hurme
3.86
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
Jännityskertomus suomalaisessa kulttuurissa yhä vaikuttavien väkevien voimien alkuperästä. Folkl… read more
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29. Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
By: Marlene Zuk
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, people have been returning to the same tired nature-versus-nurture debate, trying to… read more
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- science
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
30. The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
4.24
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly und… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
- audiobook
31. Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
By: Brandon Keim
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild crea… read more
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- animals
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