Astonishing Animals: Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit
By: Tim Flannery
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Sumptuous birds of paradise, amazing soft shell turtles, frogs that look like tomatoes, and terrify…
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1. Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
By: Christie Wilcox
4.11
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry From the coasts of Indonesi… read more
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"There are species on this planet we've never seen. They live in lands and seas that no human has ever explored, and they are struggling to survive in a world unknown to us...We destroy their homes. A…"-Christie Wilcox, Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
2. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
By: David Quammen
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more
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3. All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
By: James Herriot
3.59
Format: 251 pages,
The classic multimillion copy bestseller Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herri… read more
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4. 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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5. Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
By: Thor Hanson
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 1… read more
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6. Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
By: John Pickrell
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what… read more
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7. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
8. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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9. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
10. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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11. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
12. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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13. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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14. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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15. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
16. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By: Matt Kracht
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For those who have a disdain for birds, or for bird lovers with a sense of humor, this snarky illus… read more
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17. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
By: David Quammen
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our un… read more
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18. A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
By: Rob Dunn
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand … read more
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"We were offered a deal by nature: if we gave up thousands of species of birds, plants, mammals, butterflies, and bees, in exchange we could have a handful of new kinds of mosquitoes and rats. It is a…"-Rob Dunn, A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
"The diversity-stability law, states that ecosystems that include more species are more stable through time... The law of dependence states that all species depend on other species. And we, as humans,…"-Rob Dunn, A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
"It is surprising that we as a species have been as successful as we have despite our ignorance of the biological world and our biased perspective on its dimensions. Einstein said that "the eternal my…"-Rob Dunn, A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
"In my experience, people who study climate change are planning for this last scenario in their own daily lives. At work, they write about the RCP2.6 path and how to get on it. At home, in their free …"-Rob Dunn, A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
19. The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies
By: Lee Alan Dugatkin
3.48
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of the wondrous social webs that permeate life in animal societies around t… read more
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20. Astonishing Animals: Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit
By: Tim Flannery
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Sumptuous birds of paradise, amazing soft shell turtles, frogs that look like tomatoes, and terrify… read more
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21. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more
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