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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... -
![Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker]()
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 40 ratings“Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book…Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for you.” —Bill Gates A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this “stimulating and important book” (Financial Times) is a fascinating dive into the purpose and power of slumber...Categorized as:
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![Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake, Christine Clemmensen]()
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake, Christine Clemmensen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes... -
![Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari]()
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe first volume, in a hardcover edition for libraries, of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text for readers of all ages... -
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![Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O'Donohue]()
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O'Donohue
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes , John O’Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty—the divine beauty that calls the imagination and awakens all that is noble in the human heart Beauty is a gentle but urgent call to awaken...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke]()
Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdomStudying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared the same curious kinks. The problem was her sex. Being female meant she was, by nature, a loser... -
![Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets]()
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how... -
![Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina]()
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWeaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals... -
![The Call of the Wild and Free: Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child's Education by Ainsley Arment]()
The Call of the Wild and Free: Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child's Education by Ainsley Arment
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAllow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practical guide that provides all the information, inspiration, and advice you need for creating a modern, quality homeschool education.Inspired by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau—”All good things are wild and free”—mother of five Ainsley Arment founded Wild + Free...Categorized as:
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![The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen]()
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators...Categorized as:
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![Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner]()
Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings2017 Nautilus Award Gold Winner for Personal GrowthThe world has never been more connected, yet people are lonelier than ever. Whether we feel unworthy, alienated, or anxious about our place in the world the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times.Most people think of belonging as a mythical place, and they spend a lifetime searching for it in vain...Categorized as:
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![The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman]()
The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLocked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence... -
![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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![Love Notes From The Hollow Tree by Jarod K. Anderson]()
Love Notes From The Hollow Tree by Jarod K. Anderson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPoet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist Podcast and author of Field Guide to the Haunted Forest) celebrates the natural world with warmth and humor. The poetry and prose in this collection are love letters to impermanence, to our kinship with nature, to our strange ability to conjure meaning...Categorized as:
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![Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy]()
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaternal instinct--the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children--has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision of motherhood and its crucial role in human evolution...Categorized as:
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![Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky]()
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNow in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress.As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria... -
![The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams]()
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?Looking at the headlines--a global pandemic, the worsening climate crisis, political upheaval--it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed... -
![Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane]()
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIf it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed, these tiny structures inside our cells are important beyond imagining. Without mitochondria, we would have no cell suicide, no sculpting of embryonic shape, no sexes, no menopause, no aging...Categorized as:
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![The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman, Luís Oliveira Santos]()
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman, Luís Oliveira Santos
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease... -
![Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman]()
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHer revolutionary studies of Tanzania's chimpanzees forever altered our definition of "humanity." Now, intriguing as always, Jane Goodall explores her deepest convictions in a heartfelt memoir that takes her from the London Blitz to Louis Leaky's famous excavations in Africa and then into the forests of Gombe... -
![Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan]()
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of the origins of life on earth, describes its variety and character, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and the complex traces of humankind's evolutionary past... It is an amazing story masterfully told...Categorized as:
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![The Pocket Book of Stones by Robert Simmons]()
The Pocket Book of Stones by Robert Simmons
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis edition of The Pocket Book of Stones, featuring a handy lay-flat binding, was created in response to demand from readers for a more portable metaphysical crystals guide than the author’s Book of Stones . It is an ideal introduction to stones and their energies for those who are new to the field, as well as being an invaluable reference for well-versed readers... -
![The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins]()
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsCharles Darwin’s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later... -
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![Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner]()
Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA manual for opening the doors of perception and directly engaging the intelligence of the Natural World• Provides exercises to directly perceive and interact with the complex, living, self-organizing being that is Gaia• Reveals that every life form on Earth is highly intelligent and communicative• Examines the ecological function of invasive plants, bacterial resistance to antibiotics,...Categorized as:
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![The Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy by Guy Murchie]()
The Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy by Guy Murchie
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn American Book Award finalist, Guy Murchie's The Seven Mysteries of Life "embraces all the important information about everything humanity needs to know for continuance aboard planet Earth, or anywhere else in the universe" (Buckminster Fuller)."All life in all worlds"—this was the object of the author's seventeen-year quest for knowledge and discovery, culminating in this book... -
![Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne]()
Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWeaving together and explaining the latest discoveries and ideas from many disparate areas of modern science, this succinct and important book explains the truth about, and the beauty of, evolution... -
![The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature by Stephen Harrod Buhner]()
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReveals the use of direct perception in understanding Nature, medicinal plants, and the healing of human disease• Explores the techniques used by indigenous and Western peoples to learn directly from the plants themselves, including those of Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, and Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution• Contains leading-edge information on the heart as an organ of...Categorized as:
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![Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson]()
Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDie Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty... -
![Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson]()
Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . .Categorized as:
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