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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...

From the New York Times bestselling author of What an Owl Knows, The Genius of Birds, and The Bird Way, a groundbreaking investigation into female birds Recent studies on female birds are overturning much of what we thought we knew about birds. In the past, research focused almost exclusively on...

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...

A beautiful, lyrical memoir, in which a mother and her wheelchair-using, competitive swimmer daughter travel the North Sea and discover what whales, dolphins and orcas can teach us about care, disability and community ‘In the water, the boundaries between strength and vulnerability dissolve...

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...

Nature demands giants. Megafauna crop up in every era, from the Dreadnoughtus of the Cretaceous period to the more recently extinct woolly mammoth. And everywhere these giant creatures went, they shaped the world around them, simply by existing. This book will tell the story of megafauna on...

An urgent and compassionate exploration of why we are all vulnerable to addiction and how emerging science can help us break free. We have built a world that exploits the most vulnerable parts of the human brain. Addiction is not an outlier, nor is it simply a failure of individual willpower. It...

How exactly does a brain store information? How are our memories first formed? What makes us forget them, or create false or distorted memories? What happens in dementia or neurodegeneration, when our memories crumble? Looking to the future, how might we keep our memories intact, as our...

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 rural Herefordshire, Richard Fleming watched as his earth-bound world quietly...

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...

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 fascinating world of reptiles in 10 captivating essays . Often maligned, largely misunderstood, and surprisingly hard to find, reptiles are resourceful, hardy and diverse creatures that have been around since deep in the Earth's prehistory. Learning about them is not only...

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?...