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The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Simon Winchester
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
Beronda L. Montgomery
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
Elizabeth Kolbert
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,...
Just Visiting This Planet, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: Further Scientific Adventures of Merlin from Omniscia
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Paper Book
From Neil deGrasse Tyson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, comes a spirited journey to the planets and stars, revealing the answers to many mysteries of our galaxy and beyond. In this companion volume to Merlin's Tour of...
Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
Jonathan C. Slaght
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...
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
Christine Webb
Paper Book
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...
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...
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Yossi Yovel
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 Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life
Rob Dunn
Paper Book
A "soulful tribute" (New York Times) that shows how rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind  A New York Times Notable Book of the Year   In the woodlands of sub...
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
Suzanne Simard
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of Finding the Mother Tree 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. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world...
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan
Paper Book
The Instant New York Times Bestseller "Pollan's real genius--the word is not too strong--remains intact. That is his uncanny ability to scent the direction in which the culture is headed. He did it with food and psychedelics, and now, though A World Appears focuses on...
I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
Matt Kaplan
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
Neil Shea
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...
Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
Caroline Tracey
Paper Book
More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth's surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse. Writer and geographer...
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Kate Marvel
Paper Book
A Scientific American Best Book of the Year A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes...
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System
Dagomar Degroot
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...

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