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Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane
Paper Book
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an...
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! * #1 Washington Post bestseller! * #1 Indie Bestseller! * USA Today Bestseller! John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the...
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Mary Roach
Paper Book
The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet...
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
Alan Weisman
Paper Book
One of Heatmap's 18 Climate Books to Read in 2025 The award-winning environmental journalist's extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the...
Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants is Good for Our Health
Kathy Willis
Paper Book
A Next Big Idea Club must-read selection! An Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Nonfiction Book! A ground-breaking investigation into newly discovered evidence showing that remarkable things happen to our bodies and our minds when our senses connect with the...
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Yossi Yovel
Paper Book
An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the world's leading expert With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats come in different sizes, shapes, and colors, from the tiny...
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
David Attenborough
Paper Book
Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the earth's future. ...
Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away
Coltan Scrivner PhD
"A fascinating examination of a feature of human nature that all of us have, most of us deplore (at least in others), and few of us understand." --Steven Pinker, New York Times bestselling author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now "An entertaining...
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 | A 2025 Booklist Editors' Choice Pick The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction--but it's not too late to change course, as two of the...

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