National Geographic Society, 2021.
Hardcover. In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world's most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit, wisdom, and cutting-edge science.For science geeks, space and physics nerds, and all who want to understand their place in.....
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987.
Paperback. First Paperback Printing. California Natural History Guide No. 50. Drawings by Pamela Vesterby.
A survey of plants and animals that have survived and thrived in uncultivated urban spaces in California. An average of 20% of U.S. urban spaces is uncommitted and potentially.....
Flatiron Books, 2022.
Hardcover. "The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I'll ever read."--Mary Roach
FROM AN AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE JOURNALIST comes an urgent investigation of environmental migration--the most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change where--and how--we live.
"An IMPORTANT and PROVOCATIVE start to a......
Scribner Book Company, 2018.
Paperback. "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 GatesA New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this "stimulating and.....
Tim Duggan Books, 2020.
Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon With a new afterword It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Hardcover. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we've learned of these key.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Hardcover. The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient [An] engrossing biographical memoir. This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds, observing his post-encephalitic patients . . . exulting over horseshoe crabs and chunks of Iceland spar. --Barbara Kiser.....
Penguin Press, 2021.
Hardcover. One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Paperback. From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt's ancient past took place in an atmosphere of grand adventure and international rivalry.
In A World.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Hardcover. When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to the frontiers of the.....
Picador USA, 2020.
Paperback. Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist
Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open.....
Taschen, 2020.
Hardcover. Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to the deepest ocean. A vociferous supporter and developer of Darwin's theories of evolution, he denounced religious dogma, authored philosophical treatises, gained.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019.
Hardcover. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Paperback. In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015.
Paperback. Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Hardcover. In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences: what they offer to each other, how they can be united, and where they still fall short. Both endeavours, Edward.....
Greystone Books, 2021.
Hardcover. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
A powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses.
In The.....
Greystone Books, 2018.
Hardcover. This beautiful, timeless book shares text from the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees alongside stunning photographs of forests, taking readers on an unforgettable visual journey.
In his international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers' eyes to the amazing.....
Greystone Books, 2019.
Hardcover. "Peter Wohlleben's curiosity about the natural world, his sense of wonder at its complexity and beauty, and his clear and compelling writing have combined in The Secret Wisdom of Nature. As you read these pages you will understand why I so admire him and am so.....
Greystone Books, 2016.
Hardcover. A New York Times bestseller With more than 2 million copies sold worldwide, this beautifully-written book journeys deep into the forest to uncover the fascinating--and surprisingly moving--hidden life of trees. "At once romantic and scientific, [Wohlleben's] view of the forest calls on us all to reevaluate.....
Greystone Books, 2017.
Hardcover. From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees. "The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. This book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do."--Sy Montgomery, bestselling author of The Soul of.....
Pasadena: Abbey Garden Press, 1944.
First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, red cloth, xvii, 282pp With Abridged English-Classical Supplement, Bookplate first paste-down endpaper, very good.
Vintage, 2016.
Paperback. The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world--and in the process created modern environmentalism. NATIONAL BEST SELLER One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of.....
Penguin Books, 2021.
Paperback. A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020!Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy SocietyPulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles.....
Random House Trade, 2023.
Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling" (The New York Times), "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong"One.....
