Natural history
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First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands
$26.95 Add to cartThe First Adirondackers challenges the widespread, long-standing belief that the Adirondack uplands of northern New York were uninhabited before the arrival of European colonizers. Nothing could be fa… [more below]
- Author: Stager, Curt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 149308979X
- Language: English
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
$19.99 Add to cartAn ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer’s Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to… [more below]
- Author: Lehrer, Jonah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0547085907
- Language: English
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Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
$20.00 Add to cartHow museums display extinct species–and what these exhibits say about us.
While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema- Author: Jørgensen, Dolly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0226842304
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: 2.0
$39.00 Add to cartTHE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and … [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217287925
- Language: English
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Weathering
$21.99 Read moreRocks and mountains have withstood eons of life on our planet–gradually eroding, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evo… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1529902649
- Language: English
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$21.99 Add to cartThe epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
“Rich…fascinating.”–The Wall Street Journal Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But - Author: Farmer, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607953
- Language: English
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Spinosaur Tales: The Biology and Ecology of the Spinosaurs
$28.00 Add to cartThe spinosaurs – the dinosaur group that includes the largest land predator of all time, the awe-inspiring Spinosaurus – star in this cutting-edge review.
The giant sail-backed carnivorous dinosaur Sp- Author: Hone, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1399412469
- Language: English
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The California Naturalist Handbook, Second Edition
$34.95 Add to cartThe go-to guide to California’s natural history, now updated with fresh insights on stewardship for a changing climate and diverse naturalist perspectives.
The California Naturalist Handbook offers a f
- Author: De Nevers, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0520412710
- Language: English
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A Little History of the Earth
$28.00 Add to cartA lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs
Where has our planet come from, and- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Woodward, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0300246145
- Language: English
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The Twilight Forest: An Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West
$30.00 Add to cartWith their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun: in the past decade, in a … [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833428
- Language: English
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What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing, and Minds
$36.95 Add to cartWhat intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural consequence of evolution.
It has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produ- Series: The Antikythera
- Author: Aguera Y. Arcas, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049953
- Language: English
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In the Circle of Ancient Trees: Our Oldest Trees and the Stories They Tell
$30.00 Add to cartThis captivating book about dendrochronology–the study of tree rings–uncovers the stories of 10 species of ancient trees, their unique environments and climates, and what they have to tell us about … [more below]
- Author: Trouet, Valerie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402682
- Language: English
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Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History
$34.00 Add to cartA search for the meaning of one of nature’s greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform?
“How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?” the Roman poet O- Author: Harman, Oren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607600
- Language: English
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Ocean Art: From the Shore to the Deep
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a leading writer of the sea, an exquisitely illustrated deep dive into the beauty and meaning of art inspired by the life of the watery depths.
Artists have captured the marvels of ocean life th- Author: Scales, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 2025
- ISBN10: 183639098X
- Language: English
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Epic Earth: A Wild Ride Through the History of Life on Our Planet
$19.99 Add to cartEarth’s history isn’t just ancient–it’s absolutely epic.
From viral science creator Lindsay Nikole comes a bold, hilarious, and wildly fascinating journey through the history of our planet–packed wi- Author: Nikole, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1577155343
- Language: English
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Following the Bend: How to Read a River and Understand Its Nature
$29.95 Add to cartAn engaging and thought-provoking introduction to river science
When we look at a river, either up close or while flying over a river valley, what are we really seeing? Following the Bend takes reader- Author: Wohl, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0691272476
- Language: English
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The Whispers of Rock: The Stories That Stone Tells about Our World and Our Lives
$30.00 Add to cartA geologist’s “poetic and heartfelt” (Robert Macfarlane) revelation of how our planet’s seemingly inert bones pulse with unexpected vitality
If you listen, can you hear the stones speak? The question- Author: Khatwa, Anjana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604644
- Language: English
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Squirrel: How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World
$30.00 Add to cartSquirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. Their chattering antics in city parks delight us while their raids on our backyard gardens and birdfeeders never fail to ex… [more below]
- Author: Castaldo, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833754
- Language: English
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The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit
$32.00 Add to cart“A deeply meditative book in the vein of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass.”
As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar wa
–Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus- Author: Kumar, Priyanka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833630
- Language: English
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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the World: A Guide to Their Diversity
$32.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated guide to the incredible diversity of dragonflies and damselflies around the world
Airily dancing over rivers and ponds, the thousands of colorful dragonfly and damselfly species t- Series: Guide to Every Family
- Author: Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0691255032
- Language: English
