Life Sciences
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Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals about the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize
$30.00 Add to cartAnthropomorphism is the human tendency to attribute human-like thoughts, feelings, and intentions to non-human things. It’s a cognitive bias baked into the human mind that distorts our view of the wo
- Author: Gregg, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0316577588
- Language: English
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
$43.43 Add to cartIn the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She esc… [more below]
- Series: Experimental Futures
- Author: Haraway, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0822362244
- Language: English
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of the United States and Canada–West, 2nd Edition
$24.99 Add to cartAn entirely updated edition of the classic bestselling regional bird field guide from National Geographic, covering the western U.S. and Canada, including Hawaii.
Birdwatchers from the Rockies west wi- Author: Floyd, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1426222785
- Language: English
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The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
$29.99 Add to cartNamed a best book of the year by The Guardian and The Telegraph
Why do some people become radicalized?
How do ideologies shape the human brain?
And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas? In T- Author: Zmigrod, Leor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 125034459X
- Language: English
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST – THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in ou… [more below]
- Author: Bohannon, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0345806204
- Language: English
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Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at Wha
$22.99 Add to cartThe 10th anniversary edition of the landmark book on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being.
A decade ago, marine biologist Dr. Wallace J. Nichols revolutionized how we think ab- Author: Nichols, Wallace J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0316579904
- Language: English
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Gray’s Anatomy: Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical
$29.99 Add to cartThis leather-bound version of the original 1858 first edition of Gray’s Anatomy is ideal for students and those with a keen interest in medicine.
In 1858, Dr. Henry Gray published the first edition of- Series: Leather-Bound Classics
- Author: Gray, Henry
- Binding: Leather
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1667204734
- Language: English
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Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A life-altering, science-backed exploration of the healing power of art, which has now been proven to help lower stress, supercharge learning and creativity, extend your li… [more below]
- Author: Magsamen, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 059344924X
- Language: English
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Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
$21.95 Add to cartIn this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century.
Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Sco… [more below]
- Author: Moffat, Alistair
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1780274386
- Language: English
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The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
$24.00 Add to cartThe wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America
At no other time in history has there been- Author: Smith, Jane S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0143116894
- Language: English
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Norwegian Method: The Culture, Science, and Humans Behind the Groundbreaking Approach to Elite Endurance Performance
$21.95 Add to cartFind out how a sparsely-populated country came to dominate the world of endurance sports and get a blueprint for high performance.
Norway has long stacked the field with champions in sports like Nord- Author: Culp, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989256969
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive
$28.95 Add to cartWeaving together cutting-edge science and the contemplative insights that arise from mystical experience, Dr. James Cooke radically redraws our understanding of consciousness and what it truly means t
- Author: Cooke, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1633889920
- Language: English
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Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload
$34.95 Add to cartAn award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.
The human brain hasn’t changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of- Author: Cytowic, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049007
- Language: English
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The Owl Handbook: Investigating the Lives, Habits, and Importance of These Enigmatic Birds
$24.99 Add to cartCharismatic, intriguing, and misunderstood: The Owl Handbook provides a beautifully photographed, thoughtfully researched, and accessible guide to these complex, captivating creatures.
Spot an owl th- Author: Shewey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1643262270
- Language: English
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Foraging: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Foraging Wild Edible Plants and Medicinal Herbs
$22.99 Add to cartHave you ever wanted to forage but have no idea how to do it safely and responsibly?
This book is the ultimate guide for both beginner and advanced foragers alike to working with most common plants fou
- Author: Hunt, Jonathan S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1646949897
- Language: English
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Essays on Art and Science
$26.95 Add to cartWhen we view a work of art, we often experience an emotional response, but the causes of our reactions are complex. Our knowledge of why we respond to art as we do is rooted in science–in psychology
- Author: Kandel, Eric R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0231212569
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist’s Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
$30.00 Add to cartOne of Scientific American‘s Best Books of 2024
One of the world’s leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos to investigate some of humanity’s most profound questi- Author: Cabrol, Nathalie A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1668046687
- Language: English
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Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
$30.00 Add to cart“Animal communication doesn’t need to resemble human language to be full of meaning and nuance. Arik Kershenbaum delivers an expert overview of the astonishing discoveries made in the last few decades… [more below]
- Author: Kershenbaum, Arik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593654935
- Language: English
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Lichenpedia: A Brief Compendium
$17.95 Add to cartAn illustrated mini-encyclopedia about the weird and wonderful world of lichens
Lichenpedia is a delightfully entertaining and beautifully illustrated A-Z treasury about the strange, obscure, and rema- Series: Pedia Books #11
- Author: Hurley, Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0691239908
- Language: English
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
$36.00 Add to cartA top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today
The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ance- Author: Mithen, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605381
- Language: English
