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Stealing Rembrandts by Anthony A. Amore, Tom Mashberg

Skeletons by J. A. Zalasiewicz

The evolution of skeletons enabled an unprecedented array of bodies to evolve, from the tiniest seed shrimp to dinosaurs and …

The third domain by Tim Friend

Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend

Nighthawk's Evening by Gretchen N. Newberry

The Pyrocene by Stephen J. Pyne

A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before …

Life's Edge by Carl Zimmer

Largely scientific examinations of what life is and how it came to be.

Of Walking In Ice by Werner Herzog, Marje Herzog, Alan Greenberg

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our …

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths …

The earth by Richard A. Fortey

Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss is a series of personal essays introducing the reader to the life cycle, the ecology, and the natural …

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on …

No such thing as silence by Kyle Gann (Icons of America)

On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason, Lytton Smith

The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong

New edition coauthored with Yan Wong