The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
By: Peter H. Gleick
3.98
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive v…
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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
2. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
By: Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and ad… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Fuck you, God. Nothing gets through HY-80"-Sherry Sontag, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
3. Earth Abides
By: George R. Stewart
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more
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4. The Big Thirst: The Marvels, Mysteries & Madness Shaping the New Era of Water
By: Charles Fishman
3.82
Format: None pages,
The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyranno… read more
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5. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
By: Philip Connors
3.00
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journaland talked his way int… read more
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6. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
7. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
8. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- science
9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- science
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
11. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
By: Leah Thomas
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more
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- nature
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
12. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
13. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
14. 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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- nature
- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
15. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- science
16. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
By: Jaime Green
4.02
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- science
"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
17. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- nonfiction
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
18. One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
By: Brian Doyle
4.62
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From a "born storyteller" ( Seattle Times ), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays inv… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, l…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
"So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end -- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not c…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
19. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- ecology
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
20. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
21. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
22. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
23. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
24. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- science
25. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
By: Jeff Goodell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the gl… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
26. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
By: Christiana Figueres
4.07
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. Ho… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality."-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measura…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and compet…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
27. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
28. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By: Dan Egan
4.34
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more
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- ecology
- history
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
29. Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
By: Ashley Ward
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world Ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
30. The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
By: Peter H. Gleick
3.98
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive v… read more
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- ecology
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
31. Lovely One: A Memoir
By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
4.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more
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- history
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