The Jewel Box How Moths Illuminate Nature s Hidden Rules by Tim Blackburn
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Category: Natural History
Every morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on the roof of his London flat. Beautiful, ineffably mysterious organisms, these moths offer a glimpse into a larger order, one that extends beyond individual species, beyond lepidoptera or insects ...Show more
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour by David Attenborough
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The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. 'This is, quite simply, the best thing I've ever done.' Sir David Attenborough on the ...Show more
Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss
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Category: Natural History
The natural history of humankind, told through our long relationship with birds For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been i ...Show more
Rare Trees: The Fascinating Stories of the World's Most Threatened Species by SARA OLDFIELD
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"Filled with more than 300 colour photographs, Rare Trees is a stunning survey of the world's most threatened trees. Discover the beauty - and importance - of the world's most threatened tree species. Forests cover nearly a third of the world's surface, and the trees that make them up include a staggeri ...Show more
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (25th Anniversary Edition) by David Suzuki
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Category: Natural History | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
'The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit.' — E.O. WilsonWith a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass — and an afterword from Bill McKibben — this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part ...Show more
Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi by Alison Pouliot
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'Mists waft gently around me and slowly drizzle water through the fronds of tree ferns. Lichens wrap around twisted blackwood limbs like ornate scarves. In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the colourful surface, the fallen ...Show more
Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth by Jules Howard
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Category: Natural History
If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind’s eye? A chicken egg, hardboiled? A slimy mass of frogspawn? Perhaps you see a human egg cell, prepared on a microscope slide in a laboratory? Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic ...Show more
Peter Godfrey-Smith 3 Copy Mixed Pack by Godfrey-Smith, Peter
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Category: Natural History
"Pack contains: 2 x 9780008226299 Other Minds 1 x 9780008321239 Metazoa "
Living on Earth by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Category: Natural History
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020. Peter Godfrey-Smith, the scuba-diving philosopher, examined the evolution of sentience in ...Show more
Pathogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy
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Category: Natural History
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week 'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman' The Times 'Full of amazing facts' Observ ...Show more
The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart
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Category: Natural History
Fifty gorgeously illustrated vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their passion for trees, from Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of The Drunken Botanist. When Amy Stewart discovered a community of tree collectors, she expected to meet horticultural fanatics d ...Show more
Sing Like Fish: how sound rules life under water by Amorina Kingdon
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Category: Natural History
A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes - from an award-winning science writer. For centuries humans ignored sound in the 'silent world' of the ocean, assuming that what we could ...Show more