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…
Want to Read $ 13.17"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 expression, and emissions of volatile organic compounds—which are used frequently by plants as defensive signals against predators."-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 chorus: whooping clownfish, grunting cod, and crunching parrotfish. Sea urchins scrape, resonating like tubas. Percussion is the domain of chattering dolphins and clacking shrimp, who use their pincers to create bubbles that explode with a loud bang. Lobsters rasp their antennae on their shells like washboards. Rainfall, wind, and waves provide the backbeat. To get the best seat, you would have to attend the concert in the middle of the night at the full moon, when fish chorusing typically crests. But you wouldn't necessarily need to have a front row seat: mass fish choruses can be heard up to 50 miles away, and whale sounds resonate for hundreds of miles."-Karen Bakker, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
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1. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
By: William McDonough , Michael Braungart
4.09
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to min… read more
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- nonfiction
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"When you talk about “saving the planet"-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"Cradle to Cradle is like good gardening; it is not about “saving"-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good."-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"as a buyer you got the item or service you wanted, plus additives that you didn’t ask for and that may be harmful to you and your loved ones."-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
2. A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
By: Ayelet Waldman
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses … 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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- nature
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4. 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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- ecology
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5. 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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- nature
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"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
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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- science
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"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. Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
By: Rebecca Struthers
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning watchmaker—one of the few practicing the art in the world today—chronicles the inv… read more
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"Gli orologi non creano il tempo, ma ne misurano la nostra percezione culturale."-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
"La natura è stata il nostro primo orologio e continua a scandire il tempo per coloro che se ne accorgono. Sono state la convivenza e la frequentazione diretta con la natura a far sì che l’umanità svi…"-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
"Il concetto di tempo è inseparabile dalla nostra cultura. Nella lingua inglese, per esempio, la parola time (tempo) è la più usata. Nelle culture occidentali e capitaliste è qualcosa che abbiamo o no…"-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
8. 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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- nature
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- plants
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- environment
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9. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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10. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
By: Michelle Nijhuis
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more
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- nature
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11. 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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- nature
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12. Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
By: Garrett Ryan
4.20
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to dri… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
15. 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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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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17. Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
By: Danna Staaf
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, the… read more
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18. 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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- nature
- science
- ecology
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- animals
- natural history
- plants
- nonfiction
- environment
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"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
19. 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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- nature
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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
20. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
By: Stefanos Geroulanos
3.76
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An eminent historian demonstrates how claims about the origins of humanity have been used to justif… read more
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21. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
