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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist for the Banff Mountain Book Competition in Environmental Literature Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A Hill Times Top 100 Best Book of 2025 From the celebrated writer,...

#1 New York Times bestseller * #1 Washington Post bestseller * #1 Indie Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's...

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...

"[A] wonderful book." --Nature "A mind-opening adventure." --Natural History 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...

A Nature Best Book of 2025 * A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick An elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist Hundred-year-old giant clams,...

A New York Times's Notable Book of 2025 An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species--and ourselves Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural...

In this "wise and wondrous" (David Quammen) exploration, a science writer reintroduces readers to The Snake, encouraging our initial reaction to the slithery creature to be one of awe rather than disgust. For millennia, depictions of snakes as...

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...

'This is some of the best English prose of our time' SPECTATOR 'A feast for mind and soul' ISABELLA TREE 'A marvellous and revelatory guide to our native bird-life' DAILY MAIL Step into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild Close to...

In this captivating, insightful book, acclaimed physicists Alan Lightman and Martin Rees illuminate the life and work of numerous scientists in order to demystify the scientific process and show that scientists are concerned citizens, just like the rest of us. "Remarkable. . . ....

Get a close-up look at the world of insects with a delightfully illustrated guide to the fascinating insects, bugs, arachnids, and other creatures that populate our planet by the billions.  Millions of species of insects fly, crawl, dig, swarm, and eat on every...

A search for the meaning of one of nature's greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform? "Beautiful... Entertaining... Inspiring."--Nature "A meditation on transformation . . . Warm [and] empathetic . . . wonderful."<...

An exploration of all the ways in which birds are social creatures--from breeding to nesting to babysitting In The Social Lives of Birds, evolutionary biologist and author of Slow Birding Joan Strassmann examines what it means for birds of a feather to flock...

Leading evolutionary theorists and philosophers come together to understand how organisms persist, even as they're riddled with internal conflict, from cancer cells to selfish genes. How does a vast menagerie of organs, tissues, cells, and genes coalesce to form a unified organism? For...

In this "well-researched guide," two of the world's most respected scientists reveal the forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement--and offer "powerful ideas about how to fight back" (Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun) "Science is indeed...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL 2025 From the bestselling co-author of Apollo 13 comes the thrilling untold story of the pioneering Gemini program that was instrumental in getting Americans on the moon. Without Gemini, there...

America's beloved bird field guide just got even better with this completely revised 8th edition, created for a new generation of birders. Updated ID guidance, descriptive details, and annotated art on more than 1,000 species, including new range maps powered by eBird technology....

"In these exquisitely illustrated pages, we hear from ten explorers who clamber down cliffs, traverse bogs, and dodge killer bees to study the world's greatest plants."--Oliver Uberti, author of Atlas of the Invisible and Where the Animals Go From the...

'Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.' GUARDIAN 'Few can match Uglow's skill at conjuring up a scene, or illuminating a character.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Charming . . . Like Radio 4's shipping forecast for naturalists.' Andrea Wulf, FINANCIAL...

What makes us peek at a car wreck or binge-watch true crime shows late into the night? Why are some of us drawn to horror movies while others shudder at the thought? In Morbidly Curious, scientist Coltan Scrivner takes readers on a thrilling journey into the psychology of morbid curiosity,...

A marvelously illustrated look at everything we now know about the fearsome king of the dinosaurs Continue the adventure with the dazzling film, T.REX, narrated by Sam Neill, now playing in IMAX and museum cinemas worldwide Tyrannosaurus rex is the...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 | The Guardian'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...

Join herpetologist Eli Greenbaum on his race to identify a multitude of unidentified species in the Congo, a volatile African region overcome with population pressure, military oppression, and climate change. These are the backdrop challenges to the science pursued by Dr. Greenbuam in this timely...

Despite the naysayers, climate change is a fact. We know that global temperatures are rising, that weather patterns are changing, that forest fires, droughts, flooding, severe storms, and heat waves are the new normal. We know this planet is teetering on the edge of climate collapse, an apocalyptic...

An unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society. From assaults on merit-based hiring to the policing of language and replacing well...

Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy   "Philip Ball's book is a treasure: beautifully illustrated and, as usual, the author caries his learning lightly."-...

What if the future of food grew on trees--and had been with us all along? From acorns to chestnuts, hazelnuts, and beyond, discover the ancient staple crops that could nourish people and heal the planet. What You'll Learn in Feed Us with Trees In this groundbreaking and...

The spiritual successor to Space Is Cool as Fuck, a mind-bending information overload on the majesty of our favourite local moons. ALMOST EVERY PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM HAS ONE, SO WHY DO WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT MOONS? Join...

Through extensive research and reporting, this boundary-crossing and highly readable survey of efforts to tackle climate change aims to replace our paralyzing fears with a restored sense of hope and determination. Climate change is a problem so enormous and complex--with threats so...

Unearth natural treasures in this dazzling visual guide that includes four real rocks! Kids can read about minerals, rocks, gems, and geodes, and learn strange but true stories, facts, and trivia. Includes hands-on activities to help amateur geologists discover and identify rocks to...

A year spent at the precipice of severe climate change in oceanfront Spain. The Last House Before the Sea is the magnificent result of a year lived on the island of Buda, contemplating the passing of the seasons, the marshes, the seabirds, and a relentless horizon. In its pages, Gabi...

Written by an award-winning behavioral change expert, this practical guide shows how recent discoveries in the behavioural sciences can help you lead a more positive and rewarding life. As 95 per cent of our brain activity carries on at a subconscious level, we're not...