An Illustrated Hourly Guide That Spotlights Twenty-four Flowers As They Attract Pollinators, Resist Predators, And Survive On Our Changing Planet. Is It 4 Am Or Chicory O'clock? In This Short Book, Botanist And Award-winning Author Sandra Knapp Walks Us...

With stunning images and an expert guide, explore the world of fossils to uncover the story of life on Earth, from the origins of new life to mass extinctions.Ancient Earth seems like an alien world. But the fossil record can help reveal the mysteries of...

A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch...

Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doomActivists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about...

This is the shocking true-life story of how PFAS—a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of—poisoned the entire country. Based on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters’...

In This Uplifting Memoir, A Professor And Activist Shares What Birds Can Teach Us About Life, Social Change, And Protecting The Environment-- Provided By Publisher.

A manifesto—and a field guide—for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and discovering a rare mason bee that builds its nest in empty...

Every one of Earth's teeming ecosystems is an evolutionary cauldronChristopher Wills's claim has its roots in an insight from Charles Darwin: the interactions between species in an ecosystem are a powerful driver of evolution. In this book Wills...

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Discusses the classification and anatomy of fish and describes the characteristics and behavior of more than 1000 species of fishes

By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us [New Scientist; The Times UK]National...

One of Australia's most treasured poets draws on the past to reckon with the perils of the present.

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award“On the Move explains how we got here and where we’re headed. It’s crucial guide to the world we are creating.” ―Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and...

New Yorker Best Book of the Year“Exquisite.”-DAVID WALLACE-WELLS | “At once an elegy and an exhortation.”-ELIZABETH KOLBERT | “A book that goes deeper than any before into the meaning of the climate breakdown for all the rest of creation.”-BILL McKIBBEN...

By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us [New Scientist; The Times UK]National...

We All Live On Nature's Doorstep, But We Often Overlook It. From Backyards To Local Parks, The Natural Places We See The Most May Well Be The Ones We Know The Least. In Close To Home, Biologist Thor Hanson Shows How Retraining Our Eyes Reveals Hidden...

How dominant culture—from sexism and homophobia to racism, capitalism, ableism, and more—has limited the science of animal behavior, and how we can free ourselves from these limited perspectives.In Feminism in the Wild, Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer...

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that...

This "luminous, brilliant" meditation on life in the countryside will encourage you to see the natural world -- and our place in it -- anew (New York Times Book Review).With an eloquence unmatched by any other living writer, Verlyn Klinkenborg observes...