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Explore the science of life with this visually driven, fast-paced, and accessible guide featuring Crash Course’s signature smart and funny voice. Perfect for students, nonfiction readers, and lifelong learners. Biology is the study of living organisms. Offering breadth and depth, this guide...

Learn to embrace life’s challenges and pursue wellbeing in partnership with the Earth, for readers of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating and Some of Us Just Fall. In 2023, University of Georgia professor and geographer Dr. Amy Trauger set her sights on growing a food forest, a regenerative...

Eve meets Who We Are and How We Got Here in this exciting new examination of human evolution that puts motherhood at the center of the story. Seven million years ago, a pregnant, apelike ancestor to the whole of our species found a secluded space on the forest floor and began her labor. An hour...

Acclaimed author, neurosurgeon, and horse trainer Allan Hamilton offers valuable insights into human behavior drawn from a lifetime with horses. Allan Hamilton sees humans as predators whose behavior is driven by the power of the pack—fight for what you want, strive to be on top—and asks...

Acclaimed writer Kim Keum Hee invites readers into her sun-soaked Seoul apartment, where the daily ritual of nurturing her many houseplants becomes a moving meditation on resilience, hope, and the evolving seasons of a life. ‘Where there are roots, there is hope.’ Kim Keum Hee is a...

Just as he did in his New York Times bestseller, An Immense World, Ed Yong expands our perception of nature, this time by revealing the astonishing ways living things operate at different scales. "A tour de force. Life Beyond Measure is an invitation to transcend the limits of our bodies and...

This beautiful award-winning memoir follows a mother and daughter’s journey into the water to discover profound life lessons from whales and dolphins about the power of care and connection. Eleanor Dooks is raising her family on the Scottish seaside, but she’s afraid of the water—until her...

Meet the deities, spirits, and beings of the plant kingdom who want to be your magical allies! Unlock the sacred power of nature through dozens of brand-new spells and rituals. Discover your personal plant familiar and open yourself to a new way of working with nature in your magical practice...

An evocative, lyrical debut memoir from the heart of our vanishing countryside – a story of the solitary life of an eel fisherman and the radical choice to live more in tune with the natural world. Growing up in Herefordshire, Richard Fleming watched the rural world – and the ancient...

New York Times bestselling author and former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb provides a glimpse of a promising future that is quickly approaching: a world with cures for chronic illnesses and cancers. While traditional drugs mostly help us manage the effects of disease, cell therapies promise...

Learn to rejuvenate your immune system, boost your metabolism, and prevent and heal a host of chronic diseases—no matter what your genetic markers predict—with this cutting-edge guide that introduces and defines the new field of immuno-rejuvenation. Every day, millions of people live with...

Uncover the brilliant science of light – how it affects our wellbeing, shapes our lives, and illuminates the universe. From the initial formation of photons deep inside the sun to the illumination with which you are reading these words, there is no part of our universe that has not been...

A luminous and deeply personal celebration of the trees that have shaped one scientist's life and can help save our planet. Blending her talent for artful storytelling with her expertise as a botanist, biologist and biochemist, The Trees I Love is Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s love letter to the...

For fans of Ada Limón and Kate Baer, Make Me Good Soil is a luminous, intimate new poetry collection from celebrated author Sophie Strand that explores personal love, loss, trauma healing, and illness through the lens of interspecies connection. Sophie Strand's poetry is attuned to the...

Discover more about the secret lives of insects in 10 captivating essays Insects, also known as the widely misunderstood small things that in reality control everything. Whether you find insects frightening, or fascinating, these tiny critters loom large in the imagination. How small are they?...

An awe-inspiring tour of the brilliant systems that keep the human body alive through circumstances ordinary and extraordinary. How can someone live with only half a brain? How have more than 150 people survived free falls from supposedly fatal heights? From renowned physicians and medical...

There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, whereas even our closest animal relatives sit unobtrusively in their dwindling habitats. Yet despite longstanding...

From bestselling author David Quammen, a fascinating scientific detective story about how a transmissible cancer first discovered in Tasmanian devils is connected to the discovery that cancer in humans can be treated as a chronic illness, not a fatal one—a radically new approach that promises...

A spellbinding guide to the entwined evolution of humans and flowers—and what they can teach us about life The love story between flowers and humans is millions of years old. Over millennia of ecological changes and challenges, flowers have inspired us, comforted us, and taught us some of our...

Meet the British animals we tend to ignore – and discover why they matter more than we think. From midge clouds and riverside bat walks to slug-slick gardens and wasps’ nests in the eaves, Awful Creatures follows writer Saskia McCracken as she seeks out the British animals we dismiss, shun...