A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politiciansNature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat predators. Crows cry wolf to scare off rivals. Amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors. Even genes...

National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic—a “luminous, passionate account of the...

"A gripping and vital portrait of wolf repopulation. It is impossible not to root for Diane, or for the wolves."--ERICA BERRY, AUTHOR OF WOLFISH "This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships and faces...

This book brings you up close and personal with eight different bug species in astounding motion. Another addition to the bestselling Photicular series with over 1.3 million books in print, Bugs zooms into the tiny world of insects. Watch a...

This astounding book comes alive to bring you up close and personal with eight different bird species. Seeing is believing with the innovative and bestselling Photicular books, and now Birds gives readers a fascinating view of bird behavior in living...

Winner of the 2025 John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing“A beautiful book—at once intimate and sweeping, informative and moving.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyEarth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to...

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human...

How animals speak to each other and to humans, from chimpanzees who learn sign language to dogs who parse the meaning of other dogs' growls.Is language what sets humans apart from other animals, as many have argued? Or do animals speak in their own...

A compelling rumination on detritus as an essential, meaningful, yet often problematic facet of human existence. This book starts with the premise that waste is inevitable in human society--and ends with a meditation on its inevitability. The Idea of...

Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The world's oceans are changing at a drastic pace. Beneath the waves and along the coasts, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. In...

"With breath-catching insight and enveloping compassion, Sunaura Taylor shares a secret of epochal urgency: people living with injury and impairment have much to teach about how to survive, and perhaps even thrive, on an injured and impaired planet...

Ben Weissenbach-an L.A. native with little prior wilderness experience-treks through the Alaskan tundra with a series of eccentric environmental scientists, and returns with a new perspective on technology and a revitalized sense of wonder for the...

A charming and moving debut memoir about how a man with a mystery illness saves a pigeon, and how the pigeon saves the man. "I loved every page of this book: funny, sad, romantic, and full of pigeons."--Sy Montgomery On a spring evening in Montana,...

A hilarious, informative, and vibrantly illustrated guide to 101 bird songs that sound surprisingly familiar. Have you ever gone for a walk in the woods and wondered what bird was making a sound like a siren going off, or somebody revving a chainsaw...

From award-winning journalist Joseph Lee, a sweeping, personal exploration of Indigenous identity and the challenges facing Indigenous people around the world.Before Martha’s Vineyard became one of the most iconic vacation destinations in the country, it...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ILLUSTRATOR From the creator of Floriography and the Woodland Wardens Oracle Deck comes this beautifully illustrated exploration of the folklore, mythology, and history surrounding our favorite winged companions. Birds have...

Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help. While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene--an era many date to the Industrial Revolution when human action...

Just 12,000 years ago - at the height of the last Ice Age - saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths, camels, hippos and the great herds of proboscideans: giant mastodons and mammoths, extinct relatives of the elephant, roamed the land where skyscrapers...