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How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
by Ruth Kassinger
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by Zoë Schlanger
Published May 2025
Read ReviewsAward-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.
by Lucy Cooke
Published Oct 2023
Read ReviewsA fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom.
by Jackie Higgins
Published Nov 2022
Read ReviewsPerfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds, this remarkable book explores how we process the world around us by analyzing the incredible sensory capabilities of thirteen animals and reveals that we are not limited to merely five senses.
by Ed Yong
Published Jan 2018
Read ReviewsJoining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin - a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life on earth.
by Bruce Watson
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsAlthough lasers now perform everyday miracles, light retains its eternal allure. "For the rest of my life," Einstein said, "I will reflect on what light is." Light explores and celebrates such curiosity.
by Simon Barnes
Published Dec 2015
Read ReviewsThis fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures - weird, wonderful, and everything in between - are inextricably linked.
by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA beguiling, optimistic engagement with the changes affecting every part of our lives, The Human Age is a wise and beautiful book that will astound, delight, and inform intelligent life for a long time to come.
Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening
by Carol Wall
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsA true story of a unique friendship between two people who had nothing - and ultimately everything - in common
by Richard Preston
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsRichard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored: The world of the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained the coast redwood...
by Richard Fortey
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsA fascinating geological exploration of the earth's distant history as revealed by its natural wonders.
by Michael Pollan
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsWeaving fascinating anecdotes and accessible science into gorgeous prose, Pollan takes us on an absorbing journey that will change the way we think about our place in nature.
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