7 must-read nonfiction books like Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America by Jessica L Allen

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Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America

By: Jessica L Allen

4.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A practical field guide to the common lichens found in the northeastern megalopolis, including New …

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Cover of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

1. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

By: David Quammen

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more

Similar categories in David Quammen's Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic book and Jessica L Allen's Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America

  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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2. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

By: Ed Yong

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

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3. The City & the City

By: China Miéville

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more

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"shit, shit, shit."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Same weather over here as back home," I said."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

Cover of The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun, Ana Goldstein

4. The Baron in the Trees

By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein

4.02

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more

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"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Mais je fais une chose tout à fait bonne: je vis dans les arbres"

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

5. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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6. 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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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"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

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7. 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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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"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

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8. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

By: Frans de Waal

4.16

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and … read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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9. Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

By: Sarah Hart

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” ―Jordan Elle… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hart's Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature book and Jessica L Allen's Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America

  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America by Jessica L Allen

10. Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America

By: Jessica L Allen

4.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A practical field guide to the common lichens found in the northeastern megalopolis, including New … read more

Similar categories in Jessica L Allen's Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America book and Jessica L Allen's Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America

  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Social Wasps of North America by Chris Alice Kratzer

11. The Social Wasps of North America

By: Chris Alice Kratzer

4.92

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

With over 400 pages and 900 full-color illustrations, The Social Wasps of North America is the worl… read more

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7 Best science books like Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America by Jessica L Allen

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3.10

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4.18

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