Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
By: Michael Blencowe
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories …
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1. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
By: Miklós Nyiszli , Bruno Bettelheim , Tibère Kremer , Richard Seaver
4.31
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom."-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
"Los médicos entienden perfectamente el destino cruel que les ha tocado y son conscientes de la imposibilidad de escapar, pero a pesar de ello se dedican a ayudar, con absoluta abnegación, a los que e…"-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
"The bodies were not lying here and there throughout the room, but piled in a mass to the ceiling. The reason for this was that the gas first inundated the lower layers of air and rose slowly towards …"-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
2. Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
By: Joy Adamson
3.37
Format: 200 pages,
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3. The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster, #1)
By: Walter Wangerin Jr.
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the ani… read more
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4. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
By: Dan Flores
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeAmerica's Great Plains once possess… read more
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5. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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- nature
- history
- biology
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
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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- history
- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- history
- animals
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
8. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
By: Jonathan C. Slaght
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding rea… read more
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- memoir
- travel
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
9. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
By: Fuchsia Dunlop
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
10. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
By: Ben Rawlence
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more
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- history
- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
11. A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Du… read more
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12. 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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- history
- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
13. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
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- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
14. 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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- history
- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
15. Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
By: Bill François
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
If we were able to listen under water, what would we hear? What would we learn? How would it change… read more
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- history
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"When school ends, everyone must relearn in their own way"-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
"By being aware of our place and role in the ecosystem, we preserve it."-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
"Don't try to exchange words, only to share that which transcends words."-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
"A human being is nothing more than a very large community, on every level."-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
16. The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
By: Ludovic Slimak
3.69
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species’ unique form … read more
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- history
- natural history
- science
17. Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
By: Michael Blencowe
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories … read more
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- memoir
- travel
- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
18. The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
By: Zach St. George
3.90
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has sh… read more
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- travel
- biology
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
19. The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
By: Christopher Kemp
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a… read more
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- biology
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- nonfiction
- nature
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20. Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
By: Hugh Warwick
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Investigating the ethical and practical challenges of one of the greatest threats to biodiversity: … read more
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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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