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Updated November 19, 2025
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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
Riley Black
Paper Book
NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Winner, A Friend of Darwin Award, 2024 A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from...
CLOSE TO HOME: THE WONDERS OF NATURE JUST OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR
Hanson, Thor.
Paper Book
An award-winning natural-history writer presents "the perfect mix of science and story" (Sy Montgomery), opening the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks: "I couldn't put it down" (Doug Tallamy).    We all live on nature's...
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...
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Neil Shubin
Paper Book
**Shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize** The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet's future. ...
HOPE DIES LAST: VISIONARY PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD, FIGHTING TO FIND US A FUTURE
Weisman, Alan
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...
In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
James C. Scott
Paper Book
James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit   A New Yorker Best Book of the Year   "Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scott's...
A CRACK IN EVERYTHING: HOW BLACK HOLES CAME IN FROM THE COLD AND TOOK COSMIC CENTRE STAGE
Chown, Marcus
Paper Book
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. This can...
A DUMB BIRDS FIELD GUIDE TO THE WORST BIRDS EVER
Kracht, Matt.
Paper Book
Professional birding amateur and national bestselling author Matt Kracht has had it with these goddamn birds. His new book is a warning, a field guide to help you identify and stay away from the absolute worst birds ever to plague planet Earth. Featuring an all-new scientific scale devised...
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE: WHY OUR SPECIES IS ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION
Gee, Henry.
Paper Book
By the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: a history of humanity on the brink of decline. A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Selection We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first time in more...
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
Mike Tidwell
Paper Book
A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees - all against the national backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and, simultaneously, rising hopes for clean energy.
Bad Naturalist: One Woman’s Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop
Paula Whyman
Paper Book
With humor, humility, and awe, one woman attempts to restore 200 acres of farmland long gone-to-seed in the Blue Ridge Mountains, facing her own limitations while getting to know a breathtaking corner of the natural world.   When Paula Whyman first climbs a peak...
Sisters in Science: A Riveting Historical Account of Women in Science with a Powerful Message of Sisterhood, Order Your Copy Today!
Olivia Campbell
" The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were...
SLITHER: HOW NATURE'S MOST MALIGNED CREATURES ILLUMINATE OUR WORLD
Hall, Stephen S.
Paper Book
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...
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * TIME 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2025 "An antidote to the loneliness of our species."--ROBIN WALL KIMMERER "A master class in how to love the world."--MARGARET RENKL A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the...
THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN: THE RADICAL SCIENCE OF FLEXIBLE THINKING
Zmigrod, Leor
Paper Book
Named a best book of the year by The Guardian and The Telegraph Why do some people become radicalized? How do ideologies shape the human brain? And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas? In The Ideological...
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Richard Munson
Paper Book
Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants. But today, Franklin is remembered more for his political prowess and diplomatic...
The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs (Princeton Field Guides, 166)
Gregory S. Paul
Paper Book
An authoritative illustrated guide to the fearsome predators that dominated the Mesozoic world for 180 million years New discoveries are transforming our understanding of the theropod dinosaurs, revealing startling new insights into the lives and look of these awesome...
The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life
Drew Harvell
Paper Book
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, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates...
OCEAN: EARTH'S LAST WILDERNESS
Attenborough, David
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. ...
Carbon: The Book of Life
Paul Hawken
Paper Book
Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Though comprising a tiny fraction of Earth's composition, our planet is lifeless without it. Yet it is maligned as the driver of climate change, scorned as an errant element blamed for the possible demise of civilisation....
PLIGHT OF THE PELICAN: HOW SCIENCE SAVED A SPECIES
Stremer, Jessica.
Paper Book
A richly illustrated nonfiction picture book celebrating how scientists and activists can work together to create change and protect wildlife, making the world safer for creatures both big and small. How do you save a species? Start at the edges of the food chain. In...

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