After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
By: Eric Wagner
4.22
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEOn May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and …
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1. A Planet of Viruses
By: Carl Zimmer
4.06
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their s… read more
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- biology
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"For comparison, tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, ba…"-Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses
2. The Log from the Sea of Cortez
By: John Steinbeck , Richard Astro
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate edition can be found here. In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his grea… read more
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long"-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"The paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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4. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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5. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more
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6. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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7. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
By: Norman Maclean
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more
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8. Conclave
By: Robert Harris
4.00
Format: None pages,
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more
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9. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Kraka… read more
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10. 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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11. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
12. Road of Bones
By: Christopher Golden
3.38
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost sto… read more
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13. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
4.27
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more
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"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
14. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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15. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nature
- ecology
- history
- biology
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
16. The Wolf
By: Nate Blakeslee
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
ASIN moved from this edition The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrat… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
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"By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprece…"-Nate Blakeslee, The Wolf
17. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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18. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
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19. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.35
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more
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20. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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21. Ohio
By: Stephen Markley
3.87
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in nort… read more
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"New Canaan had this look, like a magazine after it’s tossed on the fire, the way the pages blacken and curl as they begin to burn, but just before the flames take over."-Stephen Markley, Ohio
"You make someone your devil for long enough, and you want to hold onto that. There's something rapturous about hating another person, especially if you have a goddamned good reason."-Stephen Markley, Ohio
"What an important lesson for every young person to learn: If you defy the collective psychosis of nationalism, of imperial war, you will pay for it. And the people in your community, your home, who y…"-Stephen Markley, Ohio
"Like MacMillan and the clique of teachers and the coaches who all went to the same church and barbecued at one another's houses, much of the country's small-bore civil servants were itching to do som…"-Stephen Markley, Ohio
22. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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23. Bewilderment
By: Richard Powers
3.92
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more
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"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
24. We Are Not Free
By: Traci Chee
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the… read more
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"...I'm not guilty of anything but being born with this face."-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
"We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous."-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
"Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American."-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
"If someone always said, You have to do this for me before I do this for you, then nothing would ever get done"-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
25. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By: Timothy Egan
4.13
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more
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"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
26. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
By: Jon Billman
3.69
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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27. A Thousand Steps into Night
By: Traci Chee
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, Traci Chee, comes a Japane… read more
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"He was meandering along one of the paths, watching the fire crackle around him as if it were an opera—stirring, magnificent—and he, its only patron."-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night
"To anyone else, the appearance of the village might have been cause for alarm, but to Miuko, who had only ever known such deterioration, it was beautiful in its ordinariness."-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night
"She could not help but think of her mother and how much she would have loved it, how she would have devoured every sight, every souund, every phantasmagoric scent wafting up from the volcanic fissure…"-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night
"Once, at Ogawa Castle, Miuko had thought him lonely; but now, seeing him encircled by such unrepentant destruction, she understood that he could never be lonely, because he did not desire company. No…"-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night
28. 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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29. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- history
- nature
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
30. The Deluge
By: Stephen Markley
4.23
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more
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"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."-Stephen Markley, The Deluge
31. After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
By: Eric Wagner
4.22
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEOn May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and … read more
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