17 must-read nonfiction books like When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Peña-Guzmán

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When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness

By: David M. Peña-Guzmán

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming Are humans the …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Peña-Guzmán , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. La especie elegida: La larga marcha de la evolución humana

By: Juan Luis Arsuaga , Ignacio Martínez , Mauricio Antón

4.04

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

¿Es el hombre «la especie elegida», la consecuencia necesaria de la larga marcha de la evolución? ¿… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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2. Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

By: Wendy Williams

3.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most … read more

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  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

3. The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds

By: Leigh Calvez

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this boo… read more

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4. Disoriental

By: Négar Djavadi

4.21

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a young girl and her family, at the core of an exploration of Iranian history. Kimi… read more

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"That's the tragedy of exile. Things, as well as people, still exist, but you have to pretend to think of them as dead."

-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental

"We had all hoped that a day would come when the five of us could live together again, free and without fear. But freedom is an illusion. The only thing that changes is the size of your prison."

-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental

"I was confronted by a world that I could see and touch but didn't know how to talk about. There were so many words and names that I just didn't have. Flowers, trees, birds, reptiles, organs. The word…"

-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental

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5. 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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  • science
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

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6. 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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  • science
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

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7. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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8. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl

By: Jonathan C. Slaght

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding rea… read more

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  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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9. Trenul spre Samarkand

By: Guzel Yakhina

4.34

Format: 476 pages, Paperback

Anul 1923. Noua Uniune Sovietică e un tărâm haotic, bântuit de o foamete cruntă și încă zguduit de … read more

Similar categories in Guzel Yakhina's Trenul spre Samarkand book and David M. Peña-Guzmán's When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness

  • audiobook
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10. 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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  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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11. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

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  • audiobook
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

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12. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

3.94

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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13. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

By: Bethany Brookshire

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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14. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

By: Mark Solms

4.26

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how conscious… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What you experience all the time is fluctuating pulses of feeling in response to your movement through the world, as you check whether everything is as you expected to find it - and as you try to clo…"

-Mark Solms, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

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15. The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies

By: Keith Seifert

4.00

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees comes an illuminating account of the “in… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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16. Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

By: Beth Kempton

3.91

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE 'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"We have to stop telling ourselves that everyone is watching, waiting for us to fail. They really aren’t."

-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

"Wabi sabi teaches us to be content with less in a way that feels like more. Less stuff, more soul. Less hustle, more ease. Less chaos, more calm. Less mass consumption and more unique creation. Less …"

-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

"The Japanese see the seasons as signposts, visible reminders of our own natural rhytms. In modern life, these often get disrupted, as we extend our days with strong artificial light, interrupt our se…"

-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

"A wabi sabi inspired world view opens up a space for love. Just as we're not perfect, neither is anyone else. What difference would it make if you saw others with your heart instead of seeing and jud…"

-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

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17. 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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  • audiobook
  • 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

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18. Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat

By: Edward Struzik

3.85

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of… read more

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  • science
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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19. When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness

By: David M. Peña-Guzmán

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming Are humans the … read more

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  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • psychology
  • natural history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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20. The Hidden Life of Ice - Dispatches from a Disappearing World

By: Alberto Flores d'Arcais

3.48

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

One of the least known and least inhabited parts of the world, Greenland is a singular place on Ear… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball

21. The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

By: Philip Ball

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

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