Science
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The Social Lives of Birds: Flocks, Communes, and Families
$31.00 Add to cartAn exploration of all the ways in which birds are social creatures–from breeding to nesting to babysitting
In The Social Lives of Birds, evolutionary biologist and author of Slow Birding Joan Strassm- Author: Strassmann, Joan E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593853067
- Language: English
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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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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
$20.00 Add to cart“Engrossing…hard to put down.” — The New York Times Book Review
“Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . as a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow dow- Author: Twilley, Nicola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0735223300
- Language: English
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossi… [more below]
- Author: Pinker, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1668011573
- Language: English
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Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
$35.00 Add to cartA vast and unprecedented survey of societal collapse–stretching from the Stone Age to the age of silicon–that digs through the ruins of fallen societies to understand the root causes of their downfa… [more below]
- Author: Kemp, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593321359
- 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 Craft of Science Writing: Selections from “The Open Notebook,” Expanded Edition
$26.50 Add to cartA deeply sourced, inclusive guide to all aspects of science writing with contributions from some of the most skilled and award-winning authors working today.
Science writing has never been so critica- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Carpenter, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0226830292
- 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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In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
$28.00 Add to cartJames C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit
“Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scott’s [prose] is dry, cle- Series: Yale Agrarian Studies
- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278497
- Language: English
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Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time
$25.00 Add to cartA radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism.
Why do some processes–like aging, birth, and c
- Author: Phillips, Rasheedah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1849355614
- 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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Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics
$19.95 Add to cart“Empowers readers to write their own recipes for a future in peril: an exercise in democracy few books have dared to undertake.”
A plan to save the ea
-Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline- Author: Vettese, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1804290386
- Language: English
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False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
$19.99 Add to cartAn “essential” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by “the skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good
Hurricanes batter our c… [more below]- Author: Lomborg, Bjorn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606388
- 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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Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
$35.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress th… [more below]
- Author: Goffe, Tao Leigh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0385549911
- 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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Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World’s Food
$60.00 Add to cart“The aerial images are revelatory, sometimes unsettling and surprisingly beautiful” (New York Times Book Review)
Acclaimed photographer George Steinmetz documents the awesome global effort that puts- Author: Steinmetz, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1419774263
- 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
