If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming…
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1. Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science
By: Lawrence M. Krauss
4.27
Format: 67 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed… read more
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2. The River of Consciousness
By: Oliver Sacks
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, andMusicophilia, a collection of essays tha… 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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4. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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5. 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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"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
6. 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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"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
7. 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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8. 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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9. Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
By: Camper English
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the c… read more
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10. 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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11. Cluedo Botanico
By: David J. Gibson
3.54
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
“Cluedo botanico” ci conduce a scoprire l’utilizzo più impensabile di foglie, funghi e alghe: risol… read more
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12. 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
13. 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
14. The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery
By: Lauren Aguirre
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD "Aguirre writes clearly, conc… read more
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15. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
By: Chantel Prat
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking ad… read more
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16. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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17. 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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18. A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
By: Deena Emera
4.08
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause― A Brief History of the Female Body… read more
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19. La natura lo fa meglio (e prima). Le sorprendenti invenzioni tecnologiche che la natura suggerisce all’uomo
By: Giorgio Volpi
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
Prima dell’ingegno umano è arrivata la natura, anzi, l’evoluzione. Un libro di pop-science, ricco d… read more
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20. Mrs. Jekyll
By: Emma Glass
4.02
Format: 164 pages, Hardcover
Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying. But, beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligati… read more
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21. Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias
By: Skylar Bayer
4.72
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and all too often, they face isolatio… read more
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