Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
By: Ruth Kassinger
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of…
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1. London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.46
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of everythin… read more
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2. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
By: Mike Brown
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and… read more
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3. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
By: Amy Stewart
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart takes us on a journey through the underground world and introduces … read more
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4. American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood
By: Paul Greenberg
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS Book Award, Finalist 2014 "Greenberg's breezy, engaging style wea… 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. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
7. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
8. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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9. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
By: Ruth Kassinger
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of… read more
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10. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
11. 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
12. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
13. 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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14. The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the real story of QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of… read more
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15. Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
By: Mark Miodownik
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating new book by the bestselling scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik is an expert tou… read more
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16. The Secret History of Bigfoot
By: John O’Connor
3.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… 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. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
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19. Nature Obscura: A City's Hidden Natural World
By: Kelly Brenner
4.07
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
With wonder and a sense of humor, 'NATURE OBSCURA' author Kelly Brenner aims to help us rediscover … read more
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20. The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
By: Steffanie Strathdee
4.39
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of one woman's effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure tha… read more
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"A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why."-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
"It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of …"-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
21. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
By: Johan Eklöf
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more
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"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
22. Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
By: Susan Hand Shetterly
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great sto… read more
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23. Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
By: Susan Goldin-Meadow
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An astounding account of how gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we learn and interact, w… read more
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24. Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
By: Anne Curzan
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the g… read more
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25. The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines
By: Cassandra Leah Quave
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An uplifting, adventure-filled memoir about a groundbreaking female scientist on a quest to develop… read more
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26. Silk: A World History
By: Aarathi Prasad
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more
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27. The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
By: Anna Clark
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details… read more
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28. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
By: Jasmin Graham
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more
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29. The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
By: Ainissa Ramirez
3.93
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon a clever and engaging look… read more
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30. Gut: An Owner's Guide (The Body Literacy Library)
By: Austin Chiang
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Become body literate with An Owner's Guide , the next book in The Body Literacy Library , an enlig… read more
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