How Birds Work: An Illustrated Guide to the Wonders of Form and Function—from Bones to Beak
By: Marianne Taylor
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Engineered by evolution to thrive in the wildA tiny textbook to learn on your ownHow Birds Work goe…
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1. Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World
By: Candace Savage
3.87
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Who knew that crows are second only to humans as toolmakers and tool users, that they have complex … read more
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- nature
- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- ornithology
- science
2. Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
By: Bernd Heinrich
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award - winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens … read more
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- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
3. The Rose and the Thorn (The Riyria Chronicles, #2)
By: Michael J. Sullivan
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
TWO THIEVES WANT ANSWERS. RIYRIA IS BORN. For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gw… read more
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4. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
By: Steven Pinker
3.77
Format: 341 pages,
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- nonfiction
- science
5. The Lost Heir (Wings of Fire, #2)
By: Tui T. Sutherland
4.43
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
The WINGS OF FIRE saga continues with a thrilling underwater adventure -- and a mystery that will c… read more
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- animals
"No, way. There is a tree? In a forest?"-Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir (Wings of Fire, #2)
"There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?"-Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir (Wings of Fire, #2)
"There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way ," Glory said. "A tree in the forest ?"-Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir (Wings of Fire, #2)
"He [Riptide] sighed. "I said, 'What are you doing all the way out here?' and you said, 'Hey, sparkling teeth, I totally love three of your claws but not the others, and I wish your nose was a herrig …"-Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir (Wings of Fire, #2)
6. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
By: Jonathan Weiner
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize On a desert island in the he… read more
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7. The Death of Dulgath (The Riyria Chronicles, #3)
By: Michael J. Sullivan
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Three times they tried to kill her. Then a professional was hired. So was Riyria. When the last mem… read more
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8. The Genius of Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more
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9. Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
By: Thor Hanson
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 1… read more
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10. Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
By: John Pickrell
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what… read more
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11. How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends
By: Mark Derr
4.18
Format: 368 pages,
That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question o… read more
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12. The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter (Riyria Chronicles, #4)
By: Michael J. Sullivan
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Caught between his partner's moral compass and a father's desire for vengeance, will Royce turn the… read more
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13. Unwind (Unwind, #1)
By: Neal Shusterman
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductiv… read more
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14. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
15. Watership Down: The Graphic Novel
By: James Sturm
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams’s beloved story of a group of ra… read more
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- animals
16. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
17. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
18. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
19. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the… read more
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- nature
- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- ornithology
- science
"We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us."-Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
20. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
By: David Attenborough
4.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
21. Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
By: Rebecca Heisman
4.08
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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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
22. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
23. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By: Matt Kracht
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For those who have a disdain for birds, or for bird lovers with a sense of humor, this snarky illus… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- reference
- birds
- nature
- science
24. The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
By: Sy Montgomery
3.77
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the ha… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
"Hawks do not play by our rules. You can never assume that a hawk, even one you raised from a chick, will forgive your mistakes—sometimes a single error ruptures the relationship forever. A hawk will …"-Sy Montgomery, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
25. Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses
By: Jackie Higgins
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds , this “ masterpiece of science … read more
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- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
26. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
By: Sy Montgomery
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
27. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
By: Johan Eklöf
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more
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- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
28. Around the World in 80 Birds
By: Mike Unwin
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This beautiful and inspiring book tells the stories of 80 birds around the from the Sociable Weave… read more
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- biology
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- ornithology
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29. Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification
By: Aaron Reynolds
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Effin' Birds is a new volume in the grand and noble profession of nature writing and bird identific… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
30. Birds of the Photo Ark
By: Noah Strycker
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For avian enthusiasts, from armchair observers to dedicated life-listers, this brilliant book from … read more
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- nonfiction
- ornithology
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- science
31. How Birds Work: An Illustrated Guide to the Wonders of Form and Function—from Bones to Beak
By: Marianne Taylor
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Engineered by evolution to thrive in the wildA tiny textbook to learn on your ownHow Birds Work goe… read more
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- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- reference
- birds
- ornithology
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