Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World
By: Steven Hawley
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed. During the first two decades of the twenty-firs…
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1. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
By: Dan Flores
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
2. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
3. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
By: Steven Rinella
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
4. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
By: Mary Roach
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
Grunttackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion… 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. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
By: Jon Krakauer
4.08
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a s… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
8. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
9. 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
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
10. Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
11. Extinction
By: Douglas Preston
4.14
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more
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"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
13. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
14. Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home
By: Doug Peacock
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.” Edward Abbey In a collection of grip… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
15. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
By: Will Cockrell
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
16. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
17. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
By: Ted Conover
3.90
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
18. This Is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat
By: Nick Mott
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A practical guide for living with wildfire, including essential history and science, actions you ca… read more
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- climate change
- nonfiction
- nature
19. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
By: Leila Philip
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
20. You Are Here
By: Karin Lin-Greenberg
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal the local … read more
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21. Last Acts
By: Alexander Sammartino
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more
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22. Dream Girl
By: Laura Lippman
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Following up on her acclaimed and wildly successful New York Times bestseller Lady in the Lake, Lau… read more
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"The wheel spins, the ball bounces, bounces, bounces. Where will it land? Will you get the girl? Will your name be read from stages, the recipient of important prizes? Will your name be remembered? Ho…"-Laura Lippman, Dream Girl
23. The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher
By: E.M. Anderson
3.75
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
You're never too old for adventure. When you’re a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and… read more
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24. Lucky Red
By: Claudia Cravens
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut… read more
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25. 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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- nonfiction
- 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
26. The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
By: Eric Blehm
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless , comes an extraordinary n… read more
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- nature
"You go up into the mountains empty, even with no lunch, you come home full."-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
"It's braver and more honorable to turn back than to forge forward into uncertain terrain. Snowboarding is about living, not about dying."-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
"I'm honestly not that concerned with what's modern, or what's up-to-date, or what's cool, stylish... The smile after a good run, to me, is all I need to know about snowboarding. -Craig Kelly"-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
27. Grizzly Bear Science and the Art of a Wilderness Life: Forty Years of Research in the Flathead Valley
By: Bruce McLellan
4.49
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
In all scientific disciplines, there is an expanding gap between what is known by the general publi… read more
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- science
28. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
By: Carl Zimmer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essa… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
29. Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
By: Sanjay Sarma
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking look at the science of how it works both in the mind and in the classroom, which … read more
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- science
30. Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World
By: Steven Hawley
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed. During the first two decades of the twenty-firs… read more
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- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
