8 best-selling biology books like Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – And Why We Need to Love Them More by Vicki Hird

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Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – And Why We Need to Love Them More

By: Vicki Hird

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This is a lovely little book that could and should have a big impact. ..Let's all get rebugging rig…

If you liked the biology plot in Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – And Why We Need to Love Them More by Vicki Hird , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

By: Dan Flores

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science

2. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

By: Amy Stewart

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart takes us on a journey through the underground world and introduces … read more

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3. All Things Wise and Wonderful

By: James Herriot

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Readers adored James Herriot's tales o… read more

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4. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

By: Michael Pollan

3.73

Format: 192 pages,

In his articles and in bestselling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has establish… read more

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5. Silent Spring

By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more

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6. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more

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"Fear cannot breed where there is action."

-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

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7. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more

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  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"

-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

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8. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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9. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. 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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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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11. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

By: Oliver Milman

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more

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  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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12. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

By: Rob Dunn

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets … read more

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  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"I know what I want my dust to say about me."

-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

"Every surface; every bit of air; every bit of water in your home is alive. The average house has thousands of species."

-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

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13. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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14. Tree. Table. Book.

By: Lois Lowry

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more

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15. Man o' War

By: Cory McCarthy

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans swimme… read more

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"Not all trans people started out feeling like a different gender trapped in their skin. Some find themself a little at a time, a door inside that unlocks and reveals new doors, and new doors after th…"

-Cory McCarthy, Man o' War

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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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  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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17. Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – And Why We Need to Love Them More

By: Vicki Hird

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This is a lovely little book that could and should have a big impact. ..Let's all get rebugging rig… read more

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  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald

18. 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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  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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19. Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

By: Seirian Sumner

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, au… read more

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  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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20. The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities

By: Peter S. Alagona

4.10

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Favorite Books of 2022 With wildlife thriving in cities, we have th… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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21. Birds of Paradise

By: Oliver K. Langmead

3.85

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

American Gods meets The Chronicles of Narnia in this adult fantasy about the Biblical Adam recoveri… read more

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11 must-read science books like Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – And Why We Need to Love Them More by Vicki Hird

Transform Your Habits

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Dan Flores

3.41

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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

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Wilding

Isabella Tree

4.46

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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

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The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

Adam Nicolson

3.51

Transform Your Habits

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

William McKeever

3.98

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

3.65

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