A Gardener's Latin: The language of plants explained (National Trust Home & Garden)
By: Richard Bird
3.82
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
Every gardener needs to know their Latin names. They may look confusing at first, but once you unde…
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1. The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
By: Nancy Farmer
4.08
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns … read more
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"After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?"-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
"Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!"-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
"Some people make think slowly, but they're very thorough about it."-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
"Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it."-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
2. Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History
By: Diana Wells
3.78
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
Diana Wells, author of 100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names now turns her attention to somethin… read more
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- nonfiction
3. What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
By: Daniel Chamovitz
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can an orchid get jet lag? Does a tomato plant fee… read more
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4. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
By: Amy Stewart , Briony Morrow-Cribbs , Jonathon Rosen
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes p… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1)
By: Sarah Andersen
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Are you a special snowflake? Do you enjoy networking to advance your career? Is adulthood an exciti… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
By: Sam Kean
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
By: David Burnie , Don E. Wilson
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Unrivaled in its breadth and visual impact, this unique guide sets out to illustrate, describe, and… read more
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8. Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History
By: Bill Laws
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating stories of the plants that changed civilizations. Fifty Plants that Changed the Cou… read more
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9. The Elements of Style
By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.
4.18
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more
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"He owned"-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
10. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
11. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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- nonfiction
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
12. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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13. The Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown Ups
By: Gina Ingoglia
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
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14. 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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"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
15. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
By: Adam Kay
4.12
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more
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"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
16. Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
By: Daniel Quinn
4.01
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search f… read more
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"With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
17. The Snow Child
By: Eowyn Ivey
4.00
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel.… read more
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"A boy trying out a man's language."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
18. 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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"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
19. Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage
By: Fabien Grolleau
3.99
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping, intelligent and immersive biographical graphic novel from award-winning creators, jo… read more
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20. Botany For Dummies
By: Rene Fester Kratz
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The easy way to score your highest in botany Employment of biological scientists is projected to gr… read more
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21. A Gardener's Latin: The language of plants explained (National Trust Home & Garden)
By: Richard Bird
3.82
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
Every gardener needs to know their Latin names. They may look confusing at first, but once you unde… read more
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