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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power

A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

The Menopause Brain: New Science Empowers Women to Navigate the Pivotal Transition with Knowledge and Confidence

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

Organisch: Was es wirklich bedeutet, auf unseren Körper zu hören

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants

Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research

Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall

Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History

Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science

The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice

How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

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