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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: eBook
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers... |
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Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the World Under the Sea
Rothman, Julia - STOREY PUB
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Julia Rothman, acclaimed illustrator and creator of the best-selling Anatomy series, explores the world beneath the waves in Ocean Anatomy, with illustrations and examinations of everything from tides and currents to fish, sharks, seaweeds, coral reefs, seals, and more. |
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong - Ecco
Format: Print book
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Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin - a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that... |
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A mind-bending journey into the hidden world of fungi that will change your understanding of life on earth "A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book . . . I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world--the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom." - Robert... |
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
Ruth Kassinger - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due." - Elizabeth Kolbert Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would... |
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Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
Carl Safina - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures -- what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them.Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human... |
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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Juli Berwald - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A former ocean scientist goes in pursuit of the slippery story of jellyfish, rediscovering her passion for marine science and the sea's imperiled ecosystems. Jellyfish are an enigma. They have no centralized brain, but they see and feel and react to their environment in complex ways. They... |
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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we - and the planet we inhabit - could not survive without them.Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere - deep inside caves, 18,000 feet high in the Himalayas, inside computers,... |
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Fathoms: The World in the Whale
Rebecca Giggs - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Fathoms is a gorgeous meditation on the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship to other species.What can whales reveal about our world today? When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local... |
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Timothy C. Winegard - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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**The instant New York Times bestseller.***An international bestseller.*"Hugely impressive, a major work." - NPRA pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia,... |
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The Language of Butterflies
Wendy Williams - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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Butterflies are one of the world's most beloved insects. From butterfly gardens to zoo exhibitions, they are one of the few insects we've encouraged to infiltrate our lives. Yet, what has drawn us to these creatures in the first place? And what are their lives really like? In this... |
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Jonathan C. Slaght - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern RussiaI saw my first Blakiston's fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist... |
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American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Nate Blakeslee - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s.... |
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousnessAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded to be the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods,... |
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