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Updated April 13, 2026
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Is a River Alive? Hardcover
Macfarlane, Robert.
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...
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind Hardcover
Winchester, Simon.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines are filled with news of devastating hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, and cataclysmic...
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy Hardcover
Montgomery, Beronda L.
Paper Book
This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees. The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were...
Life on a little-known planet : dispatches from a changing world
Kolbert, Elizabeth
Paper Book
A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised,...
Tigers between empires : the improbable return of great cats to the forests of Russia and China
Slaght, Jonathan C.
Paper Book
A Best Book of the Year: Scientific American, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, CounterPunch, The Telegraph, BookPage A Chicago Tribune Most-Anticipated Book of the Season "Epic . . . Slaght again shines his...
Replaceable you : adventures in human anatomy
Roach, Mary
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...
The genius bat : the secret life of the only flying mammal
Yovel, Yossi, (Ecologist and neurobiologist)
Paper Book
"[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...
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World Hardcover
Brannen, Peter.
Paper Book
"Ambitious, absorbing... Brannen is an effusive, maximalist writer, a mind vividly alive on the page... and his arguments, like his writing, are hugely compelling."--The New York Times Book Review How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our...
When the forest breathes : renewal and resilience in the natural world
Simard, S.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees now offers a powerful vision for saving our forests, based on nature's deep-rooted cycles of renewal. "A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . ....
I told you so! : scientists who were ridiculed, exiled, and imprisoned for being right
Kaplan, Matt
Paper Book
An energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted--from Darwin to Pasteur to modern day Nobel Prize winners. For two decades, Matt Kaplan has covered science for the Economist. He's...
Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic Hardcover
Shea, Neil.
Paper Book
A Recommended Read from Yale Climate Connections "[Frostlines weaves] together natural history, indigenous perspective, and environmental transformation in the Arctic. The book helps bring a human story to the science of climate change."--Parade A...
Ripples on the cosmic ocean : an environmental history of our place in the solar system
Degroot, Dagomar
Paper Book
A Scientific American, Nautilus, and New Scientist Best Book of the Year The untold story of how environmental change throughout the cosmos shaped five hundred years of human civilization. Our solar system is a dynamic arena where...
The feather wars : and the great crusade to save America's birds
McCommons, James H.
Paper Book
"A definitive history of bird conservation in America." (Kirkus Reviews, starred) From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the land's natural resources were infinite, including its birds, which were zealously hunted for food, game, and...
Junglekeeper
Rosolie, Paul
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Most people assume that the world has been explored and true adventure is dead: This book is one man's rebuttal. Explorer and conservationist Paul Rosolie shares his incredible life in the Amazon rainforest--and what we can learn from the people fighting to...

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