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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
The River's Daughter
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
On Animals
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Forests (Adventure Through Nature)
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
Ten Birds That Changed the World
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story about an Amazing Swimmer
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Is Atheism Dead?
Hurricane
The Universe
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality
A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America
The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
The Mind of a Bee
Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future
The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
Thank You, Moon: Celebrating Nature's Nightlight
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark
Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life
There Are No Ants in This Book
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
The Girl Who Built an Ocean: An Artist, an Argonaut, and the True Story of the World's First Aquarium
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden
The Iguanodon's Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again
Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks

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“ the word fish means both the animal and the act of catching it ”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
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Jonathan Balcombe
“ photos of their gaping, rotting bodies stretching to the horizon remind me that our subjects name is synonymous with its own demise, for the word fish means both the animal adn the act of catching it ”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
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