The Wood for the Trees : The Long View of Nature From a Small Wood
By: Richard Fortey
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diver…
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1. Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy) The… read more
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- audiobook
"Er wollte sagen: Wie könnt ihr so nett und gleichzeitig so dumm sein?"-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)
"So funktioniert die Geschichte leider nicht. Erst das Blut, dann der Verstand."-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)
"Und jetzt sink auf die Knie, wenn du nicht auf andere Weise kleiner werden willst."-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)
"Der Mann schien für seine Freunde mindestens ebenso gefährlich zu sein wie für seine Feinde."-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)
2. Mozart's Starling
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.10
Format: 271 pages, ebook
A charming story of Mozart and his pet starling, along with a natural history of the bird. On May 2… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
3. The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
By: Mark Forsyth
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between word… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
4. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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- audiobook
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- nonfiction
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- science
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
5. The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
By: Richard Mabey
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The Cabaret of Plantsis a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans … read more
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- history
- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
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6. Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.98
Format: None pages,
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Roy… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Midnight Folk
By: John Masefield
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
'Don't you have any fear, Kay. We're the guards, we are. We hear that the house has gone all to six… read more
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8. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
By: Amy Stewart
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart takes us on a journey through the underground world and introduces … read more
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9. Digger: The Complete Omnibus
By: Ursula Vernon
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Digger is a story about a wombat. More specifically, it is a story by author and artist Ursula Vern… read more
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10. Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
By: Wallace Stegner , T.H. Watkins
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Spring… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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- science
- ecology
- history
- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"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
13. 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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- science
- history
- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
14. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- science
- history
- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
15. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- science
- ecology
- memoir
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
16. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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- british literature
- audiobook
17. In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants (Plant Guide, Horticulture, Trees)
By: Matt Candeias
4.17
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
“Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ― James T. Costa , Ph… read more
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- ecology
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
18. This Charming Man (Stranger Times, #2)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.36
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping u… read more
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- audiobook
19. 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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- science
- ecology
- history
- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
20. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
21. Abigail
By: Magda Szabó
4.33
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of … read more
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22. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more
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- ecology
- biology
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
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23. 絶対BLになる世界 VS 絶対BLになりたくない男 1 [Zettai BL ni Naru Sekai Vs Zettai BL ni Naritakunai Otoko 1]
By: Konkichi
3.73
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
気づいているんだ。俺はマンガの世界の住人…しかも、ボーイズラブの。 自分がBLマンガの世界の住人だと気づいてしまった主人公（※巨乳好き）。彼は迫りくるイケメン達を回避するため、BLマンガを大量に読… read more
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24. The Bookseller's Tale
By: Martin Latham
3.81
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- british literature
"When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to as: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have found time and time again that people's childhood comfort book prefigures, to an almost comical degree which they cannot always see, their adult mission in life."-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have seen this in thirty years of bookselling: customers stroking a book’s cover, peeking under the jacket, surreptitiously closing their eyes to smell the valley of pages - this sometimes accompan…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"Where do we go in dreams if not to a universal library? Such a infinite library would be brain-lik, characterised by labyrinthine passages where firing synapses distantly crackle, mythic beings appea…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
25. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
By: Philip Ball
4.28
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to en… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
26. The Fair Folk
By: Su Bristow
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From prize-winning author Su Bristow comes a fascinating coming-of-age novel about magic and the ch… read more
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27. The Wood for the Trees : The Long View of Nature From a Small Wood
By: Richard Fortey
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diver… read more
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- ecology
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- memoir
- british literature
- biology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
28. Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life
By: Oné R. Pagán
3.88
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Life is beautiful, ruthless, and very, very strange. In the evolutionary arms race that has rage… read more
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- biology
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- nature
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29. Into the Tangled Bank: In Which Our Author Ventures Outdoors to Consider the British in Nature
By: Lev Parikian
4.14
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Lev Parikian is on a journey to discover the quirks, habits and foibles of how the British experien… read more
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- memoir
- british literature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
30. Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
By: Menno Schilthuizen
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, a book that will make you see yourself and the worl… read more
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- natural history
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