The Meaning of Birds
By: Simon Barnes
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated and enchanting examination of the lives of birds, illuminating their wondr…
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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. A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm
By: Dave Goulson
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
A conservationist's deeply personal and fascinating reflection on owning and revitalizing a farm in… read more
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3. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more
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4. Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance an… read more
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5. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
6. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- ecology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
7. A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
By: Mary Pipher
4.07
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia- a memoir in essays reflecti… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
8. Youth
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.22
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
The second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love… read more
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- nonfiction
"Being young is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it - it has no other meaning."-Tove Ditlevsen, Youth
9. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
10. Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
By: Thor Hanson
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
- Треть нашего рациона состоит из «пчелозависимых» продуктов.- Гималайские виды шмелей способны лет… read more
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- ecology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"In the past, people around the world heard the buzzing of bees as voices of the departed, a murmured conveyance from the spirit world. This belief traces back to the cultures of Egypt and Greece, amo…"-Thor Hanson, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
11. Silence: In the Age of Noise
By: Erling Kagge
3.77
Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition
Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notio… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- essays
"When you’ve invested a lot of time in being accessible and keeping up with what’s happening, it’s easy to conclude that it all has a certain value, even if what you have done might not be important. …"-Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise
"What we are experiencing is experiential poverty. Such poverty may not only be about a lack of experiences, where nothing is happening. An abundance of activities can also create a feeling of experie…"-Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise
12. The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more
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13. 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
- animals
- natural history
- 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
14. 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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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- science nature
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
15. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
16. This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.96
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the fa… read more
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- nonfiction
"Memories appear in flashes of light, in short scenes, in reflections that can make us laugh or bring us to tears."-Jacqueline Winspear, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir
17. The Meaning of Birds
By: Simon Barnes
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated and enchanting examination of the lives of birds, illuminating their wondr… read more
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- ecology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- essays
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- birds
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- science
18. The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016
By: Martin Amis
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-f… read more
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- essays
"Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. a beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time."-Martin Amis, The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016
19. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.02
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
20. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
By: Wayétu Moore
4.24
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United Sta… read more
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- nonfiction
"Barely one year in and our new country let us know, every day, that we were different."-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I could be beautiful in a place and still not enough, not because of who I was or anything I had done, but because of something as simple, and somehow as grand in this new place, as the color of my s…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I think, as women of color, especially women of color who come from some means, any means really, we tend to play down the unpleasant things we've experienced. To bury them ... Perfection or the desi…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
21. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
