The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies
By: Keith Seifert
4.00
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees comes an illuminating account of the “in…
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1. Under the Dome: Part 1
By: Stephen King
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and su… read more
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2. One More for the Road
By: Ray Bradbury
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
From Ray Bradbury, the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal comes a magical colle… read more
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3. The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
By: Henry Beston , Robert Finch
4.00
Format: 176 pages,
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity,… read more
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4. 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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5. 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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"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
6. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
7. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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8. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
By: Ruth Kassinger
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of… read more
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9. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
10. A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
By: Henry Gee
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with chu… read more
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"For if life on Earth was forged in fire, it was hardened in ice."-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
"Therefore, do not despair. The Earth abides, and life is living yet."-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
11. The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World
By: Aliya Whiteley
3.60
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with the wondrous and bizarre world of fungi - from a childh… read more
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"This particular orchid gets all its energy from fungi, sometimes from different kinds of fungi simultaneously. It never even begins to turn to the sun. No photosynthesis here. It relies utterly on it…"-Aliya Whiteley, The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World
12. 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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13. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
By: David Quammen
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our un… read more
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14. The Mind of a Bee
By: Lars Chittka
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive min… read more
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"American writer and biologist Frederick Kenyon (1867-1941) was the first to explore the inner workings of the bee brain. His 1896 study, in which he managed to dye and characterize numerous types of …"-Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee
15. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
By: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and … read more
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"Everywhere we go, no matter how hard we try to avoid it, capitalism follows us."-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
"Science is supposedly about asking questions, except about scientists and how science is done."-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
"Access to a dark night sky—to see and be inspired by the universe as it really is—should be a human right, not a luxury for the chosen few."-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
16. The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies
By: Keith Seifert
4.00
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees comes an illuminating account of the “in… read more
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17. Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
By: Edith Widder
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence—the l… read more
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18. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
By: R.F. Kuang
3.68
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more
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"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
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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20. Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
By: Paul Stamets
4.42
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Companion to the film Fantastic Fungi. Contributions from Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone… read more
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