Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in our changing world
By: Marcus Byrne
4.06
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
The sweeping scientific and social history of the humble dung beetle The humble and industrious du…
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1. 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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2. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
By: Mary Roach
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In ?Bonk,?the best-selling author of Stiffturns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most al… read more
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3. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
By: Eduardo Kohn
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very founda… read more
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4. Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
By: Andrew Spielman
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter comes a fascinating work of… read more
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5. The Life of Birds
By: David Attenborough
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea… read more
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6. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
By: Natalie Angier
3.42
Format: None pages,
With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie A… read more
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7. The Secret Knowledge of Water
By: Craig Childs
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Features: Specifications: Pages: 304 ISBN-13: Publisher: Back Bay Books Cover: Paperback read more
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8. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
9. The Secret Life of Clams: The Mysteries and Magic of Our Favorite Shellfish
By: Anthony D. Fredericks
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Get up close and personal with an amazing creature that has invaded our lexicon as well as our rest… read more
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10. Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
By: None
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed pla… read more
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11. 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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12. Honeybee Democracy
By: Thomas D. Seeley
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death… read more
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13. In the Company of Crows and Ravens
By: John M. Marzluff , Tony Angell , Paul R. Ehrlich
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to t… read more
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14. 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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15. Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
By: None
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
All the buzz about North America's bees Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of … read more
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16. 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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"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
17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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18. Lady Clementine
By: Marie Benedict
3.83
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
From Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room, comes an … read more
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"Political wives are seldom seen and rarely heard."-Marie Benedict, Lady Clementine
"The risks of the conflict never overwhelmed me, only the fear of marginalization."-Marie Benedict, Lady Clementine
"I simply recall a dark hollow within me into which I crawled when the anxiety overwhelmed."-Marie Benedict, Lady Clementine
"In comparison to them and countless others, I had no right to suffer. But suffering came whether or not I was worthy."-Marie Benedict, Lady Clementine
19. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
20. Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
By: Susanne Foitzik
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing … read more
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21. Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved
By: Kenneth Catania
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This book showcases some strange creatures with unusual capacities. The "star" of the show is the s… read more
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22. The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
By: Adam Rutherford
3.83
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us … read more
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23. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
By: Elsa Panciroli
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dino… read more
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24. Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
By: Jim Dutcher
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspira… read more
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25. Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
By: Valerie Trouet
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Children around the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, how… read more
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"happy to share our hard-earned tree-ring data with one another and with the broader science community on the International Tree-Ring Data Bank,* a publicly accessible internet database hosted by the …"-Valerie Trouet, Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
"Of en hoe een samenleving op de onmiddellijke dreiging van een catastrofe reageert, is afhankelijk van haar culturele waarden en hoe deze tot uiting komen in haar sociaal-economische structuur – denk…"-Valerie Trouet, Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
26. Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color
By: Kai Kupferschmidt
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world—and to understand our collective obsession… read more
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27. The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
By: Kit Yates
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From birthdays to birth rates to how we perceive the passing of time, mathematical patterns shape o… read more
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28. Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself
By: David Toomey
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Inside of a Dog and The Soul of an Octopus , a fascinating, charming, and revelatory… read more
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29. Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History
By: Whitney Barlow Robles
3.45
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the field of natural history and its … read more
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30. Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in our changing world
By: Marcus Byrne
4.06
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
The sweeping scientific and social history of the humble dung beetle The humble and industrious du… read more
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31. Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
By: John Cardina
4.35
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eigh… read more
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