At once a major resource for historians of science and an excellent introduction to natural history for the general reader, David Allen's The Naturalist in Britain established a precedent for investigating natural history as a social phenomenon. Here the...

A Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Economist, and Science NewsA Scientific American Best Staff ReadShortlisted for the Banff Centre Mountain Book Awards"Vivid and engrossing.… [A] celebration of beardom." ―Richard Adams Carey, Wall Street...

A Scientific American Best Staff Read of 2023“Irresistible.” ―PeopleA moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity’s relationship with the world.When ecologist Carl Safina...

A Financial Times Best Science Book of 2023“[A] profound, sparkling global ocean voyage.” ―Andrew Robinson, NatureA scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it matters.All of Earth’s oceans, from the...

Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismA Best Book of the Year: New York Times • The New Yorker • Science News • Smithsonian Magazine • Kirkus Reviews“A powerhouse of a book…comprehensive and engaging.” ―David...

This is the first paperback version of the second edition of the popular A Guide to the Birds of Panama. In the second edition, published in 1989, the authors expanded information on the birds of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras: approximately 200 new...

Cat traces the relationship between humans and the cat from its original domestication in ancient Egypt circa 2000 BC, through centuries as a utilitarian rodent catcher, its gradual acceptance as a charming and amiable pet, and on to its present status...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.As Indigenous scientist and author of...

“I am convinced that, for the moment, the most common point of view is: ‘How little can we spend on the bees and still get them to make honey?’ If some beekeeper says, ‘Feed them sugar water,’ their point of view must be: ‘Because it’s cheaper than honey...

Celebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world.Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spectacularly ugly. Some plants live on their own, or by...

Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, focusing primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.

A first-of-its-kind pop-science journey into the hidden world of baby animalsEntire ecosystems rest on the shoulders (or tentacles, or jointed exoskeletons) of animal babies; it’s time we paid them more attention. In Nursery Earth, researcher Danna Staaf...

A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and EcoLit BooksA USA Today Must-Read Summer Book"David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment." ―Zoë...

“Mind-blowing and soul-expanding.” ―Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusA behavioral ecologist’s riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors.Of...

What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us?Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal...

A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America.The Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation’s culture and...