Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
By: Clive Oppenheimer
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Meeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanologist interprets their messages for humankind. …
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1. Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
By: Steve Olson
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiou… read more
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2. 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
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- nonfiction
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"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
3. 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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"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
4. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- history
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5. Ten Birds That Changed the World
By: Stephen Moss
3.97
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more
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- history
- natural history
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6. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- nature
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7. 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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8. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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9. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- history
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
10. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
By: Robin George Andrews
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma mor… read more
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11. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
By: Daniel de Visé
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. 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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13. Anyone's Ghost
By: August Thompson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more
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14. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story
By: Anthony Seldon
4.22
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more
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15. Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System
By: Natalie Starkey
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The volcano – among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. … read more
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16. Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
By: Katherine Pangonis
3.88
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has forme… read more
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17. Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
By: Clive Oppenheimer
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Meeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanologist interprets their messages for humankind. … read more
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18. Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
By: Michael Taylor
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves t… read more
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19. Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
By: Tamsin Mather
3.89
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some … read more
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20. Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet. … read more
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