Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
By: Michelle Nijhuis
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl…
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1. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
2. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
By: Dan Flores
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeAmerica's Great Plains once possess… read more
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3. Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
By: William Stolzenburg
4.15
Format: 200 pages,
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4. The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
By: Thor Hanson
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2016 PNBA Book Award A finalist for the 2016 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in… read more
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5. 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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- history
- biology
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- nonfiction
- environment
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6. 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
7. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
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8. 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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9. 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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- science nature
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10. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
By: Michelle Nijhuis
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more
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- science nature
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11. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more
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12. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
By: Ben Rawlence
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more
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13. 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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14. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
By: Thor Hanson
4.06
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
*A New York Times Editor's Choice pick *Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards … read more
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15. 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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16. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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17. Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
By: Emma Marris
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relatio… read more
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"The only way to really stop life from changing is to kill it."-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
"I only know one place in the United States where 'natural' wolf death is the norm: Yellowstone National Park."-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
"It was when I moved to Oregon in 2013 that I really began to examine how conservation did and did not make the lives of individual animals better."-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
"But 'wild' animals in the twenty-first century are not truly independent of humanity. In fact, today, I am not sure there are any 'wild animals' left."-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
18. Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
By: Erica Berry
3.55
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An original and probing debut work of nonfiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-lon… read more
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"I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of t…"-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
"With both the last and the first wolf, I wonder, did you know just how alone you were? Beneath this question, lay the other one. The same one that now flickered in my chest as I travelled alone for i…"-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
19. Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
By: Steven Johnson
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of mod… read more
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20. How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human
By: Melanie Challenger
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A wide-ranging take on why humans have a troubled relationship with being an animal, and why we nee… read more
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21. The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
By: Jo Marchant
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Best Book of 2020 NPR A Best Book of 2020 The Economist A Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Smit… read more
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