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  • Entangled Life

    How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.**“Grand and dizzying in how ... Read more

    $3.50 USD

  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 看雲趣:從科學、文學到神話,認識百變的雲世界(10週年新裝版)

    Series Book 55 - 大眾科學館
    二十世紀才出現的是哪種雲?孫悟空駕的觔斗雲又是哪一種?晴天、雨天、颱風天,看雲就知道?有趣的飛機凝結尾會造成氣候變化?雲量多寡,牽動人類存亡關鍵?!這本精采的**「賞雲指南」**包山包海,詳細介紹風起雲湧的科學原理,還有朵朵白雲的趣聞軼事、文學典故及神話。請跟著賞雲達人,一起讀懂大氣的表情!雲不僅把天空妝點得多采多姿,也和我們的生活息息相關。從小愛看雲的作者為大力推廣雲的美好,發起「賞雲協會」,並在眾所期待下寫出這本精采的「賞雲指南」。本書以雲的十大分類為基礎,包括積雲、積雨雲、層雲、層積雲、高積雲、高層雲、雨層雲、卷雲、卷積雲和卷層雲,也搜羅各種奇特的雲、飛機凝結尾、晨光雲等,就每一種雲的特色講述不同的故事。除了介紹各種與雲相關的... ... Read more

    $11.05 USD

  • The Genius of Trees

    How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

    by Harriet Rix ...
    **A mind-expanding exploration of how trees learned to shape our world by manipulating the elements, plants, animals, and even humankind, possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined“Astounding . . . a true masterpiece . . . Rix refuses to put herself much in the picture, but through the scenes we glimpse an Indiana Jones figure who is both an eminent, travelling scientist and a born ... Read more

    $2.33 USD

  • Junglekeeper

    What It Takes to Change the World

    by Paul Rosolie ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Most people assume that the world has been explored and true adventure is dead: This book is one man’s rebuttal. Explorer and conservationist Paul Rosolie shares his incredible life in the Amazon rainforest—and what we can learn from the people fighting to protect it.“On behalf of the forests that I love, thank you, Paul, for writing this book.”—Jane Goodall**Deep in ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • 島群峰:走進臺灣的心臟

    by 吳懷晨 ...
    Series Book 172 - 綠蠹魚Read It!
    臺灣山岳書寫的一塊里程碑。——詹偉雄╱文化評論人若不踏上山徑,便無法真正認識臺灣。從山的視角,重新理解這座小小而多山的島。「只需抬頭,山,一直都在。」「山,並不需要我們。可我們,卻總忍不住向山走去。」臺灣不只是海島,更是山之島。群峰刻畫這座島嶼的形貌與命運。本書從南投山村的童年記憶出發,過去遙望的山陵與現在的山行交錯書寫,視角也從腳下的步伐逐漸延伸至從天空俯瞰群峰。作者以十餘年的山行為經,以島嶼的山岳為緯,在漫長的步行與凝視之中,將個人生命與山的時間、尺度彼此交織。在他的筆下,山是島嶼生成的記憶,是溪流切割出的時間,是原住民族世代生存與行走的空間,也是歷史靜默留存之地。關門古道、馬博橫斷、北大武山、玉山、南湖、奇萊、秀姑巒、雪山,不是等待征服的名峰,而是融合地質、... ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Our Only World

    Ten Essays

    by Wendell Berry ...
    "Stern but compassionate, author Wendell Berry raises broader issues that environmentalists rarely focus on . . . In one sense Berry is the voice of a rural agrarian tradition that stretches from rural Kentucky back to the origins of human civilization. But his insights are universal because Our Only World is filled with beautiful, compassionate writing and careful, profound thinking." —Associated ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Fate of the World

    A history and future of the climate crisis

    by Bill McGuire ...
    Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late.A warning and a rallying-cry.'Read it and weep, or read it and win' Chris PackhamA global refugee crisis. Extreme storms. Agriculture devastated. Economic ruin. Societal collapse. These are not just possibilities but likely outcomes of our ongoing failure to stem greenhouse gas emissions — and in our lifetimes. This alarming book explains why.< ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • What Are People For?

    Essays

    by Wendell Berry ...
    In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitor called "the prophetic American voice of our day," conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttony of consumerismWendell Berry identifies himself as both "a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts," which he deftly illustrates in the scope of these essays. Ranging from America’s ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares

    The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms

    by Greg Marley ...
    **Discover the wonders and mysteries of mushrooms—and our conflicting human reactions to them—in this “enticing invitation to the fungal realm” (Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation).Includes tips for mushroom foraging, cultivation, and preparation!**Throughout history, people have had a complex and confusing relationship with mushrooms. Are fungi food or medicine, beneficial ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 心向群山:人類如何從畏懼高山,走到迷戀登山

    Translated by 林建興 ...
    Series series Common
    **  「山是所有自然風景的起點,同時也是終點。」  羅伯特.麥克法倫一舉成名之作**  「聖母峰有我生平僅見最陡峭的稜線和最驚心動魄的懸崖。我心愛的……我沒辦法告訴妳,這座山讓我有多著迷。」這是1921年馬洛里在聖母峰營地上寫給愛妻的家書,幾天後,他在攻頂聖母峰的過程中,在離峰頂不遠的山坡上,永遠消失在一陣突然飄來的濃霧中。  本書就是試圖解釋怎麼會有這種事:一座山如何能夠全然「迷住」一個人?那樣非比尋常的強烈愛慕,如何能夠投注在終究也不過就是岩石和冰所堆起來的龐然大物上?那些父母、子女、丈夫、妻子,為何會把所愛之人輸給了山?這樣的著迷,並非馬洛里所獨有。越是文明、富裕的時代,就有越多人甘願拋棄平地舒適及所愛的一切,忍受各種精神及肉體痛苦,登上幾千公尺的高處。「為何登山?」成了最根本但也最難回答的問題,困惑著無數爬山及不爬山的人。  然而,人類登山,也不過是近代的事。在三個世紀以前 ... Read more

    $8.86 USD

  • The Ends of the World

    Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

    by Peter Brannen ...
    One of Vox’s Most Important Books of the DecadeNew York Times Editors' Choice 2017Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass e... ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • The Swimmer

    The Wild Life of Roger Deakin

    BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVER'The Swimmer is a wonderful, original achievement; teeming with stories, glittering with images, and experimental in form and tone' Robert MacfarlaneRoger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog, was a man of many parts: maverick ad-man, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter and filmmaker. But, above all, he was the ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition

    The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere

    Featuring more than 275 unique color photos, this specially designed hardcover edition of the world’s preeminent survival guide illuminates as never before the legendary techniques and instruction of the “classic outdoor manual” (Outside)Revered as the “survival bible” (Washington Post), the worldwide bestseller SAS Survival Handbook has long been the definitive resource for all campers, hikers, ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

  • Holy the Firm

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virginia Woolf's go dim and Edwardian. . . . Nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear. . . . A rare and precious book." — Frederick Buechner, New ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Red Bird

    Poems

    by Mary Oliver ...
    Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog Percy, Red Bird is a quintessential collection of Oliver's finest lyrics. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Nine Lives

    Death and Life in New Orleans

    by Dan Baum ...
    The hidden history of the haunted and beloved city of New Orleans, told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters.“Nine Lives is stunning work. Dan Baum has immersed himself in New Orleans, the most fascinating city in the United States, and illuminated it in a way that is as innovative as Tom Wolfe on hot rods and Truman Capote on a pair of murderers. Full of stylistic ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • The World Without Us

    by Alan Weisman ...
    A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human EarthIn The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Cloudspotter's Guide

    The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds

    Now in paperback: the runaway British bestseller that has cloudspotters everywhere looking up.Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Veteran journalist and lifelong sky watcher Gavin Pretor-Pinney reveals everything there is to know about clouds, from ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • The Vanishing Earth

    Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction

    **"Crawford belongs with other storyteller-explorers-strolling player-writers like Iain Sinclair, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Macfarlane-who are stretching naturalist observation into incisive cultural inquiry.... Riveting." --**NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS**"Crawford is at his best when surrendering to his propensity for reverie, an irrepressible, almost romantic sense of wonder that drives the reader ... Read more

    $18.39 USD

  • Wild Isles

    This beautifully illustrated overview of the wildlife of the British Isles showcases the diversity of our plant and animal life.Wild Isles is a celebration of the wildlife found on a relatively modest collection of islands positioned at a latitude so northerly to be unattractive to many animals and plants. Despite these unpromising foundations, the islands of Britain and Ireland, together with ... Read more

    $21.09 USD

  • The Nature of Nature

    Why We Need the Wild

    by Enric Sala ...
    In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Angry Weather

    Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change

    Translated by Sarah Pybus ...
    Series series World Weather Attribution
    Timely and topical. Major weather events are becoming more common—and more severe—and Friederike Otto and her team at World Weather Attribution have developed the science to show us how our actions influence extreme weather events.Angry weather uses cutting-edge science, and a gripping story centred primarily around Hurricane Harvey, to bring the socially and scientifically important information ... Read more

    Was $19.49 USD Now $13.69 USD

  • Banzeiro òkòtó

    Uma viagem à Amazônia Centro do Mundo

    Eliane Brum mescla relato pessoal e investigação jornalística para escrever um livro urgente de denúncia e em defesa da Amazônia, lugar que adotou como casa e de cuja luta pela sobrevivência participa ativamente.Escritora, jornalista e documentarista, Eliane Brum faz um mergulho profundo nas múltiplas realidades da maior floresta tropical do planeta. Com quase 35 anos de experiência como repórter, ... Read more

    Was $7.87 USD Now $5.24 USD