Vintage, August 2016. Trade Paperback. A biography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859), the insatiably curious scientist, explorer, naturalist and humanist. He foresaw human-caused climate change, railed against slavery, and mapped South American volcanos. He inspired thinkers who changed the world including Darwin, Thoreau, and John Muir. Now nearly.....
Crown, April 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES.....
Tim Duggan Books, March 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon With a new afterword It is worse, much worse.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. PNBA BESTSELLER - "A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr's mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read."--Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia Editors' Choice: The New York.....
Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2021. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. Finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of 2020 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Semifinalist in Science & Technology A prize-winning journalist upends our.....
Picador Paper, April 2021. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different.--The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers.....
Picador, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Salon Book Awards 2007 Amazon Top 100 Editors' Picks of 2007 (#4) Barnes and Noble 10 Best of 2007: Politics and.....
Penguin Canada, January 2021. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. What makes us human, and why are we so sure we're different from other animals? Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive, and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal rewrites.....
Counterpoint, January 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A look at the chemicals surrounding us that's "hard-hitting . . . yet also instills hope for a future in which consumers make safer, more informed choices" (The Washington Post). Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly.....
Milkweed Editions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a......
Grove Press, January 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book).....
Oregon State University Press, March 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn.....
Milkweed Editions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a......
Vintage, August 2016. Trade Paperback. A biography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859), the insatiably curious scientist, explorer, naturalist and humanist. He foresaw human-caused climate change, railed against slavery, and mapped South American volcanos. He inspired thinkers who changed the world including Darwin, Thoreau, and John Muir. Now nearly.....
University of Chicago Press, July 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction.....
Penguin Classics, August 1983. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Thoreau's classic essays on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom have had relevance for every generation for more than a century. They remain high on required reading lists for students across the country.
Milkweed Editions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a......
Shambhala, November 2012. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont--excursions informed by the worldview he's imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy.....
Beacon Press, August 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A new edition of the veteran science writer's groundbreaking work on the world's water crisis, featuring all-new reporting from the most recent global flashpoints Throughout history, rivers have been our foremost source of fresh water for both agriculture and.....
Monthly Review Press, July 2016. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Former owner's name on inside cover. Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun--the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just.....
University Press of Kentucky, July 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Essayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With his unique perspective and far-reaching vision.....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave.....
Custom House, April 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP) "A sublime chronicle of our planet. -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of.....
Houghton Mifflin, October 2002. Trade Paperback. A new copy. First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, December 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant.....