By: Kristy Hamilton
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Silver Nautilus Book Award for Science (2024) Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Nature…
Want to Read $ 12.99"The story begins with a big bang. Not the Big Bang, mind you, but the bang of a fist hitting a table in frustration."-Kristy Hamilton, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
"The romance of a message in a bottle floating to new lands is not an ode to love but a stark reminder that borders are invisible lines drawn by humans and nature does not abide by them."-Kristy Hamilton, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
"Although many of us may not leave riches to our families, we can bequeath them a legacy more precious than gold, more delicate than glass, and more monumental than fame: a world preserved in the amber of our protection."-Kristy Hamilton, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
"If you’ve managed to keep a creature in your fridge for longer than most Americans remain married, you probably know a thing or two about it. Tardigrades are found on every continent and at nearly all elevations: in deep-sea trenches, burbling hot springs, forest canopies, and desert dunes."-Kristy Hamilton, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
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By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
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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By: Aldo Leopold
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Louise Erdrich
Format: None pages,
The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, gene… read more
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By: Amanda Ripley
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Through the compelling stories of three American teenagers living abroad and attending the world's … read more
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By: David Michie
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
"'Oh! How adorable! I didn't know you had a cat!' she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many peo… read more
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By: Richard P. Feynman , Freeman Dyson , Jeffrey Robbins
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. F… read more
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By: Robert Macfarlane
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
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By: Charles Duhigg
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Cody Cassidy
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
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By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Emily P. Freeman
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more
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By: Cat Bohannon
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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By: Ed Yong
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
By: Anne Youngson
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ... When the curator of a Danish mus… read more
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"Our letters have meant so much to us because we have both arrived at the same point in our lives. More behind us than ahead of us."-Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum
By: Henry Grabar
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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By: Shannon Reed
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Theresa MacPhail
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the cuttin… read more
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By: Rebecca Heisman
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology th… read more
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By: Serj Tankian
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more
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By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more
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By: Ethan Mollick
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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By: Jayne Denker
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Opposites attract in this enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy of feuding neighbors and dueling hearts… read more
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By: Mike Hixenbaugh
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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By: Sam Bett
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my hear… read more
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By: Roma Agrawal
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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By: Holly Goldberg Sloan
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in N… read more
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"Here's what we have seen: The way one story ends but then starts up again. The way families are made from people who want to be together more than they want to be apart. The way no one can tell you w…"-Holly Goldberg Sloan, To Night Owl from Dogfish
By: New York Public Library
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fig… read more
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"Defend the fairies!"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"This place was the “ART"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"I just want you all to know,"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
By: Patty Krawec
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more
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"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
By: Kristy Hamilton
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Silver Nautilus Book Award for Science (2024) Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Nature… read more
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"The story begins with a big bang. Not the Big Bang, mind you, but the bang of a fist hitting a table in frustration."-Kristy Hamilton, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
"The romance of a message in a bottle floating to new lands is not an ode to love but a stark reminder that borders are invisible lines drawn by humans and nature does not abide by them."-Kristy Hamilton, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
"Although many of us may not leave riches to our families, we can bequeath them a legacy more precious than gold, more delicate than glass, and more monumental than fame: a world preserved in the ambe…"-Kristy Hamilton, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
"If you’ve managed to keep a creature in your fridge for longer than most Americans remain married, you probably know a thing or two about it. Tardigrades are found on every continent and at nearly al…"-Kristy Hamilton, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
By: Ray Kurzweil
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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By: Peter Heller
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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