Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses
By: Jackie Higgins
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. A Zoo in My Luggage
By: Gerald Durrell , Ralph Thompson
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Fans of Gerald Durrell's timeless classic My Family and Other Animalswill love this hilarious tale,… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
2. History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
By: Brad Meltzer , Keith Ferrell
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It's an irresistible combination: Brad Meltzer, a born storyteller, counting down the world's most … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. The Living Planet
By: David Attenborough
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
(Also has Collins ISBN - 0002191393) Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants, animals and m… read more
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4. 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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- biology
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- science nature
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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
5. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
By: Joe Roman
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A “fascinating” exploration (Elizabeth Kolbert) of how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by ani… read more
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10. Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more
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- nature
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11. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness … read more
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- natural history
- psychology
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- nature
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12. The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.03
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
From the international bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees An illuminating manifesto on … read more
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- biology
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13. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
By: James Bridle
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more
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- biology
- psychology
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
14. The Social Lives of Animals
By: Ashley Ward
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A rat will go out of its way to help a stranger in need. Lions have adopted the calves of their pre… read more
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- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
15. How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
By: Ryan North
4.01
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true poten… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses
By: Jackie Higgins
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds , this “ masterpiece of science … read more
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- popular science
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17. Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
By: Paco Calvo
3.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelli… read more
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18. Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
By: David Scheel
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discove… read more
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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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20. Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature
By: Beth Shapiro
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking natu… read more
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- biology
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21. Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
By: Clive Oppenheimer
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Meeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanologist interprets their messages for humankind. … read more
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