Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree: Getting to know trees through the language of scent
By: David George Haskell
4.25
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
'Eclectic, brilliant and beautifully written, David Haskell reboots our aromatic memory reminding u…
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1. The Long, Long Life of Trees
By: Fiona Stafford
3.90
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics a… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
2. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Polly Perks joins the Discworld army to find her brother Paul. "Ozzer" cuts off blonde braids, dons… read more
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3. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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4. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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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. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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7. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- essays
8. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- nonfiction
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
9. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
3.99
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more
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"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
10. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
11. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
12. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
13. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
14. The Second Mountain
By: David Brooks
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning an… read more
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"If you can create a social movement that people want to join, they will bend their energies and ideas to you."-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
"People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display."-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
"Thus, the most complete definition of a commitment is this: falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters."-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
"The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal"-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
15. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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- nonfiction
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
16. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more
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"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens
17. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
By: Lara Maiklem
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
18. The Democracy of Species
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.49
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- essays
"When we rely deeply on other lives, there is an urgency to protect them. Our ancestors, who had so few material possessions, devoted a great of attention to this question, while we are drowning in po…"-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species
"Taking coal buried deep in the earth, for which we must inflict irreparable damage, violates every precept of the code [of honorable harvest]. By no stretch of the imagination is coal 'given to us'. …"-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species
"Cautionary stories of the consequences of taking too much are ubiquitous in Native cultures, but it’s hard to recall a single one in English. Perhaps this helps to explain why we seem to be caught in…"-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species
"We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the…"-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species
19. The Garnett Girls
By: Georgina Moore
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this brilliant debut novel full of heart and warmth, three very different sisters--and their fre… read more
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"It wasn't until the small daily gestures of affection disappeared in a marriage that you noticed them or knew how much you relied on them to break up the grind of work and childcare. They were the be…"-Georgina Moore, The Garnett Girls
20. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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- nonfiction
21. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
By: Amy-Jane Beer
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more
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- nature
"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
22. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
By: Tristan Gooley
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley opens our eyes to the secret language of trees—and… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
23. Death at the Sanatorium
By: Ragnar Jónasson
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic best… read more
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24. Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree: Getting to know trees through the language of scent
By: David George Haskell
4.25
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
'Eclectic, brilliant and beautifully written, David Haskell reboots our aromatic memory reminding u… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- essays
25. Tree-spotting: A Simple Guide to Britain's Trees
By: Ros Bennett
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully illustrated guide to the marvellous and varied world of trees, and a fascinating intr… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
26. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more
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27. Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey – A Memoir of Travels through Love, Grief and Mythology
By: Laura Coffey
4.17
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
It started with a boy, of course. Seeking solace from the pain of heartbreak and her father's illne… read more
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28. Lost & Found: Nine life-changing lessons about stuff from someone who lost everything
By: Helen Chandler-Wilde
4.58
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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29. The Theatre of Glass and Shadows
By: Anne Corlett
3.99
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes the greatest spectacle hides the darkest secrets . . . In an alternate London, the cit… read more
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