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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsA grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world --from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields... -
![Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer]()
Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a NutshellYou wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself... -
![The Ants by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson]()
The Ants by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants... -
![Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts]()
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals... -
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![The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson]()
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works published in this decade. Coming eighteen years after the publication of The Ants, this new volume expands our knowledge of the social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps, and termites) and is based on remarkable research conducted mostly within the last two decades... -
![The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications by Christian Rätsch]()
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications by Christian Rätsch
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants• Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances• Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the nature of reality• Contains 797 color photographs and 645 black-and-white illustrationsIn the traditions of...Categorized as:
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![The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson]()
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsemThe Leafcutter Ants/em is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade... -
![The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough]()
The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOf marsupials, mice and men. Evolution, and Sir David Attenborough's 23-year sequence of books and BBC television 'Life' films, have culminated in the mammals and the explosion of awareness and intelligence. In the very short period of 100 million years - a mere blink in evolutionary time - the first mammals have arrived at world dominance.This came largely from hair and milk... -
![The Life of Birds by David Attenborough]()
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBased on the spectacular ten-part program on PBS, The Life of Birds is David Attenborough at his characteristic best: presenting the drama, beauty, and eccentricities of the natural world with unusual flair and intelligence... -
![Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology by Michael J. Benton]()
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology by Michael J. Benton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOver the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted. We can now work out the color of dinosaurs, the force of their bite, their top speeds, and even how they cared for their young... -
![Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson]()
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDescribing the author's growth as a scientist and the evolution of the science he has helped define, 'Naturalist' details how E.O. Wilson's youthful fascination with nature blossomed into a lifelong calling... -
![Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth by David Attenborough]()
Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet . Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano... -
![Dinosaur Art: The World's Greatest Paleoart by Philip J. Currie]()
Dinosaur Art: The World's Greatest Paleoart by Philip J. Currie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA paleoartist is an illustrator who specialises in the science and art of reconstructing ancient animals and their world. In Dinosaur Art, ten of the top contemporary paleoartists reveal a selection of their work and exclusively discuss their working methods and distinct styles... -
![Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils by Dean R. Lomax, Robert Nicholls]()
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils by Dean R. Lomax, Robert Nicholls
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures―how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or elude their predators, and more... -
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![Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved by Darren Naish, Paul Barrett]()
Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved by Darren Naish, Paul Barrett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDinosaurs are one of the most spectacular groups of animals that have ever existed. Many were fantastic, bizarre creatures that still capture our the super-predator Tyrannosaurus , the plate-backed Stegosaurus , and the long-necked, long-tailed Diplodocus . The Ultimate Guide to How They Lived taps into our enduring interest in dinosaurs, shedding new light on different dinosaur groups... -
![The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell]()
The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Machinery of Life is a journey into the sub-microscopic world of molecular machines... -
![The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham]()
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world...Categorized as:
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![The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé]()
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA riveting exploration of how microbes are transforming the way we see nature and ourselves - and could revolutionize agriculture and medicine.Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. Good health - for people and for plants - depends on Earth's smallest creatures... -
![Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky]()
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another? What makes one orgasm different from another? Who will be the winner in the genetic war between the... -
![Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg]()
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor years, predators like snow leopards and white-tipped sharks have been disappearing from the top of the food chain, largely as a result of human action. Science journalist Will Stolzenburg reveals why and how their absence upsets the delicate balance of the world's environment... -
![The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction by Robert T. Bakker]()
The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction by Robert T. Bakker
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis groundbreaking book reveals that, far from being sluggish reptiles, dinosaurs were actually agile, fast, warm-blooded, and intelligent. The author explodes the old orthodoxies and gives us a convincing picture of how dinosaurs hunted, fed, mated, fought and died.Containing over 200 detailed illustrations, The Great Dinosaur Debate will enthrall "dinosaurmaniacs"... -
![Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn]()
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basementsEven when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination... -
![What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe]()
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA New York Times Bestseller Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the... -
![Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer]()
Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlmost every animal will at some time or another become the home of a parasite. Not only are parasites the most successful life-forms on Earth, they triggered the development of sex, shape ecosystems, and have driven the engine of evolution. Zimmer describes the frightening and amazing ingenuity these commando invaders use to devour their hosts from the inside and control their behaviour... -
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![The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane, Ник Лейн]()
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane, Ник Лейн
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began... -
![Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson]()
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHailed as "a masterpiece" by Scientific American and as "the greatest of all entomology books" by Science, Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson's monumental treatise The Ants also was praised in the popular press and won a Pulitzer Prize. This overwhelming success attests to a fact long known and deeply felt by the authors: the infinite fascination of their tiny subjects... -
![Life in Cold Blood by David Attenborough]()
Life in Cold Blood by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife in Cold Blood offers a rare glimpse into the peculiar world of amphibians and reptiles, the first vertebrate creatures to venture forth from the primeval waters millions of years ago, yet which today include species that are the most at risk of extinction... -
![Life in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough]()
Life in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee to care for its young. This beautifully illustrated book by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough offers a rare glimpse into the secret life of invertebrates, the world's tiniest--and most fascinating--creatures... -
![Trials of Life: Natural History of Animal Behavior by David Attenborough]()
Trials of Life: Natural History of Animal Behavior by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Watching and filming animals world-wide has occupied most of my working life. By the end of the 1970's, the marvels and wonders I had witnessed had become a dazzling, almost confusing kaleidoscope and I began to feel a need to put them in some kind of order, to try to produce a coherent survey of the natural history of the planet... -
![Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature by Nick Davies]()
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature by Nick Davies
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe familiar call of the common cuckoo, "cuck-oo," has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago...
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