Perfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds, this “masterpiece of science and nature writing” (The Washington Post)explores how we process the world around us through the lens of the incredible sensory capabilities of thirteen...

With a new introduction by the authorSome thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular...

The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerableA Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery“Finding the...

An urgent and illuminating portrait of forest migration, and of the people studying the forests of the past, protecting the forests of the present, and planting the forests of the future.Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts,...

A beguiling invitation to the world of mushroom hunting―combining practical advice and recipes with tales and photographs from a lifetime on the huntVictoria Romanoff picked her first mushroom―a brown-capped butterpilz or sticky bun―at the age of four,...

Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson AwardOne of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine"At once thoughtful and thought-provoking,” Beloved Beasts tells the story of...

New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the YearAn exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration.In the past two decades, our understanding...

Case studies exploring how experts' encounters with environmental justice are changing technical and scientific practice. Over the course of nearly thirty years, the environmental justice movement has changed the politics of environmental activism and...

A practical field guide to the common lichens found in the northeastern megalopolis, including New York City, Toronto, Boston/New Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., and as far west as Chicago“A must-read for all who seek the wonders and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT...

From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to teach us...

In Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves an invigorating spell as he searches for meaning and purpose in the natural environment. Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures...

With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic. But for beginner foragers who just want to answer the question “Can I eat it?”, most of the books on the...

Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We’ve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over...

A melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds. The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other...

The perfect guide to the birds of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, from the #1 birding website AllAboutBirds.orgThe All About Birds Regional Field-Guide Series brings birding enthusiasts the best information from the renowned Cornell...

An illuminating and entertaining collection of dinosaur facts, from A to ZDinopedia is an illustrated, pocket-friendly encyclopedia of all things dinosaurian. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from hadrosaur nesting colonies to modern fossil...

"Undrowned is a book-length meditation for the human species, based on the subversive and transformative lessons of marine mammals. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has spent hundreds of hours watching our aquatic cousins. They are queer, fierce, protective of each...