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  • Turning to Stone

    Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

    by Marcia Bjornerud ...
    Earth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen.Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks. Yet most of us live our lives on the planet with no idea of its extraordinary history, unable to interpret the language of the rocks that surround us. Geologist Marcia Bjornerud believes that our ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Soundings

    The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor

    by Hali Felt ...
    “A fascinating account of a woman working without much recognition . . . to map the ocean floor and change the course of ocean science.” —San Francisco ChronicleSoundings is the story of the enigmatic woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

    In Search of the Soul of the Sea

    by Philip Hoare ...
    “Every day is an anxiety in my ways of getting to the water. . . . I’ve become so attuned to it, so scared of it, so in love with it that sometimes I can only think by the sea. It is the only place I feel at home.”Many of us visit the sea. Admire it. Even profess to love it. But very few of us live it. Philip Hoare does. He swims in the sea every day, either off the coast of his native Southampton ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

    by David K. Randall ...
    A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record.In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

    by Stefanos Geroulanos ...
    **“[A]n incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory . . . In lucid prose, Geroulanos unspools an enthralling and detailed history of the development of modern natural science. It’s a must-read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review“An astute, powerfully rendered history of humanity.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewAn eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Underworld

    Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

    by Susan Casey ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets**“An irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and vivid, visceral prose." —**Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author of The Soul of an OctopusFor all of human history, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Salt

    A World History

    by Mark Kurlansky ...
    **“Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt.” - New York Times Book ReviewAn unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World**Best-selling author Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • Earth's Emergency Room

    Saving Species as the Planet and Politics Get Hotter

    by Lowell E. Baier ...
    In Earth’s Emergency Room, author, attorney, and environmental historian Lowell E. Baier celebrates 50 years of the landmark Endangered Species Act of 1973, a bipartisan law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon. Baier provides an insightful and entertaining history of the ESA’s dramatic highs and lows. His own work with the ESA from its inception to the present, and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Regenesis

    Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

    by George Monbiot ...
    **Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation“George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.” —Greta Thunberg**For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Gem

    by DK ...
    Prepare to be dazzled by this shining and sumptuous visual guide to the world's greatest treasures.Feast your eyes on glittering gemstones, kaleidoscopic minerals, and famous trinkets in this comprehensive exploration of Earth's finest jewels.Following a foreword from Aja Raden, hundreds of pages take a lavish look at precious stones, precious metals, and organic gems in all their natural wonder. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • What If We Get It Right?

    Visions of Climate Futures

    by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With a thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations, the brilliant scientist and climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a group of dynamic people who are willing to imagine what seems impossible, and articulate those visions with enthusiastic clarity.”—Roxane GayOur climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Co-habiting with Ghosts

    Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny

    by Caron Lipman ...
    How does it feel to live in a ’haunted home’? How do people negotiate their everyday lives with the experience of uncanny, anomalous or strange events within the domestic interior? What do such experiences reveal of the intersection between the material, immaterial and temporal within the home? How do people interpret, share and narrate experiences which are uncertain and unpredictable? What does ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Moving To Higher Ground

    Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward

    by John Englander ...
    Ice on land is melting, and sea level is rising, both at astonishing rates never seen in recorded history. Are you, your property, investments, and family ready for these unprecedented changes? Read Moving to Higher Ground and...Learn how Sea Level Rise (SLR) is unstoppable for many centuries due to excess heat already stored in our oceans - and how soon our shorelines will go underwater.. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Speak for the Trees

    My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

    by Diana Beresford-Kroeger ...
    “A rare gift: an inspiring tale about trees, trauma and the very purpose of life.” —Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Empire of the BeetleDiana Beresford-Kroeger—a world-recognized botanist and medical biochemist—has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world with her startling insights into the hidden life of trees. In this riveting memoir, she uncovers the roots of her discoveries in her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Ministry for the Future

    A Novel

    by Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR**“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)**The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Category Five

    Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them

    by Porter Fox ...
    Superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, and spiraling freak weather: the fallout of global warming is a real-life natural thriller, as captured in Porter Fox’s urgent and stunning story of chasing the world’s most devastating storms.Here is the story of the largest storms on earth and how those storms are growing bigger and stronger. The tale of extreme weather doesn’t begin with floods, fires, or even ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood

    by David R. Montgomery ...
    How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood.In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world’s flood stories and—drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unsolaced

    Along the Way to All That Is

    by Gretel Ehrlich ...
    From the author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird, and horse have shaped her life and her understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis.Amid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets, this stunning collection of memories, observations, and narratives is acute and lyrical, Whitmanesque in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Why Geography Matters

    More Than Ever

    by Harm de Blij ...
    In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Life on Our Planet

    My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

    by Sir David Attenborough ...
    ***Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year*In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.**See the world. Then make it better.I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • At Work in the Ruins

    Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies

    by Dougald Hine ...
    'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books yet written about the multiple intersecting crises that are now upending our once-familiar world. . . Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement'Hine’s brilliant book demands we stare into that abyss and rethink our securest certainties about what is actually going on in the climate crisis. It ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dark Winter

    How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell

    by John L. Casey ...
    Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years.In Dark Winter, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun.Casey’s research into the Sun’s activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in discovery of a solar cycle that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Quakeland

    On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake

    by Kathryn Miles ...
    A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It’s a road trip full of surprises.Earthquakes. You need to worry about them only if you’re in San Francisco, right? Wrong. We have been making enormous changes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • The Biochar Solution

    Carbon Farming and Climate Change

    by Albert K. Bates ...
    How the dirt below our feet can save us from extinction.Conventional agriculture destroys our soils, pollutes our water and is a major contributor to climate change. What if our agricultural practices could stabilize, or even reverse these trends?The Biochar Solution explores the dual function of biochar as a carbon-negative energy source and a potent soil-builder. Created by burning biomass in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD