How Zoologists Organize Things: The Art of Classification
By: David Bainbridge
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Humankind’s fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival – differentiating the…
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1. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
By: Stephen Jay Gould
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Bu… read more
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"Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Thus, physics and astronomy relegated our world to a corner of the cosmos, and biology shifted our status from a simulacrum of God to a naked, upright ape."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Algunas transformaciones son manifiestas y heroicas; otras son tranquilas y sin acontecimientos notables en su devenir, pero no menos importantes en su resultado."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size…"-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
2. River of Teeth (River of Teeth #1)
By: Sarah Gailey
3.18
Format: 183 pages, ebook
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses i… read more
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3. The Gifts of Reading
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
In this luminous essay, Robert Macfarlane reflects on the unique emotional response resonance of bo… read more
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4. Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove, #1)
By: Christopher Moore
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in… read more
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5. Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
By: Jim Al-Khalili , Johnjoe McFadden
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller and an Amazon Best Science Book of 2015 Life is the most extraordinary phe… read more
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6. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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7. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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8. Life in the Undergrowth
By: David Attenborough
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
An insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee… read more
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9. 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
10. 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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11. SPY×FAMILY 11
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.54
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
デズモンドの妻・メリンダと親しくなったヨルに負けないよう、「ナカヨシ作戦」に本気になるアーニャ！ だが、イーデン校の社会科見学の道中、子供たちは事件に巻き込まれ…!? read more
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12. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
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
13. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)
By: Nghi Vo
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more
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14. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more
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15. Moriarty the Patriot, Vol. 1 (Moriarty the Patriot, #1)
By: Ryōsuke Takeuchi
4.30
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Before he was Sherlock’s rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class caste system in London by … read more
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16. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness … read more
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17. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
4.13
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to t… read more
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18. There's Something Wrong With The Cats
By: C.J. Powell
4.05
Format: None pages, ebook
Curiosity didn’t kill the cat, it mutated it into a vigilante crime fighter. Dan's cats are acti… read more
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19. Expedition Backyard
By: Rosemary Mosco
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Join two best friends—a mole and vole—on their everyday expeditions to find beautiful plants, meet … read more
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20. How Zoologists Organize Things: The Art of Classification
By: David Bainbridge
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Humankind’s fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival – differentiating the… read more
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21. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
