The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World
By: Edward D. Melillo
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
By: Noah Strycker
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world--and d… read more
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2. The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
By: Merlin Tuttle
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatur… read more
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3. Lab Girl
By: Hope Jahren
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers,… read more
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4. 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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5. Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
By: Bill Nye
3.79
Format: 1 pages,
Bill Nye has been the public face of science for more than 20 years. In Everything All At Once, the… read more
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6. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
By: Florence Williams
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more
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7. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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8. 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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9. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more
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"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
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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"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. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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12. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more
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"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
13. Full Throttle
By: Joe Hill
4.00
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping groun… read more
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14. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
By: Jane Goodall
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--a global… read more
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"Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for shor…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
"She says that people who wonder how you can have hope in seemingly hopeless situations, like a death camp, confuse hope with idealism. Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good. She says…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
15. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
By: Oliver Milman
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more
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16. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
17. Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace , a … read more
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"Visit the past, but don't stay there."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"You can love your parents and be upset about how they raised you."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"Critical thinking is a threat to unhealthy systems, and questions make people think."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"When you don't want to participate in gossiping: "I’d like to hear more about what’s happening with you"-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
18. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
19. Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
By: Rebecca Heisman
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology th… read more
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20. For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
By: Sasha Sagan
4.10
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
"What is the meaning of life? Sagan finds its meaning everywhere--with her family, around the world… read more
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"Every loss you withstand in your life reopens all the others."-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"Every single one of us appears seemingly from nowhere and then, eventually, returns to nowhere. We are conceived, we grow, and we die, but what happens beyond that is a great, haunting mystery. We gr…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"My parents taught me that the provable, tangible, verifiable things were sacred, that sometimes the most astonishing ideas are clearly profound, but when they get labeled as "facts", we lose sight of…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. This is the core of language, math, music, and even ritual, which is the repetition of words or actions deem…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
21. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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22. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
23. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more
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24. The Urge: Our History of Addiction
By: Carl Erik Fisher
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more
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- history
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"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
25. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
26. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
By: Douglas Brinkley
4.35
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of e… read more
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27. Bitch: On the Female of the Species
By: Lucy Cooke
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more
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28. Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
By: Karen Pinchin
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
**THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the… read more
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29. The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild
By: Enric Sala
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why prote… read more
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30. Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
By: Andrew Ross
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing… read more
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31. The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World
By: Edward D. Melillo
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An insightful, entertaining dive into the fruitful, centuries-long relationship between humans and … read more
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