Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
By: Christopher J. Preston
4.09
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons abou…
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1. The Genius of Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more
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2. Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
By: Andrea Lankford
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The realstories behind the scenery of America's national parks For twelve years, Andrea Lankford li… read more
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3. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- ecology
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
4. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more
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- ecology
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
5. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.35
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
6. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
7. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
By: Rebecca Renner
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more
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- nature
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
8. Ten Birds That Changed the World
By: Stephen Moss
3.97
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
9. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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- history
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
10. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nature
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- environment
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11. 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
12. The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
By: Erika Howsare
3.79
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with dee… read more
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- nature
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Humans are subtracting animals and adding themselves; beings that wear fur or bark are cut down by those in cotton."-Erika Howsare, The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
13. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
4.24
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
14. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more
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- nature
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
15. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
By: Debra Magpie Earling
3.66
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Perma Red comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges pr… read more
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"Do not trust anyone who tells you there is only one story. If there were only one story or one way of seeing things all stories would die."-Debra Magpie Earling, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
16. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
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17. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
By: Leila Philip
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more
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- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- conservation
- environment
- nature
- science
18. Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
By: Christopher J. Preston
4.09
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons abou… read more
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- history
- ecology
- animals
- nonfiction
- climate change
- conservation
- environment
- nature
- science
19. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By: Dan Egan
4.34
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more
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- ecology
- history
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
20. 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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- ecology
- animals
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
21. The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
By: Adam Welz
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosyst… read more
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- ecology
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
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