The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity
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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the planet we inhabit—could not survive without them.
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side…
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring …
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago, by a brilliant young paleobiologist
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…
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Other Minds
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as 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 …
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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our ent…
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among…
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Why do we do the things we do?
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More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking… -
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The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
Ancient Stoic insights combined with modern psychological research help us overcome—and even benefit from—everyday obstacles.
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Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly in one of the directions we must travel. I learned something on every page." --Bill McKibben
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Ten Birds That Changed the World
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religion and rituals; exploited them for their natural …
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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness
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Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more forei…