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The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Dec 2025
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.
On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025
A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future
Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic ...
My Story of the Sea
Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: May 2025
A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to experience what it's like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm.
How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025
Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us.
In Search of a Common Paradise
Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: May 2025
Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise.
How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
Hardcover: Apr 2025
The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.
How Our Planet Came to Life
Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2025
A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life.
Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2025
An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company ...
A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
Hardcover: Mar 2025
A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees – all against the national backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and, ...
How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2025
The real origin of our species: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today
Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
Hardcover: Nov 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters
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