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Wintering
Katherine May
Wintering
The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Salt
Mark Kurlansky
Salt
A World History
The Comfort Crisis
Michael Easter
The Comfort Crisis
Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Losing Eden
Lucy Jones
Losing Eden
Why Our Minds Need the Wild
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species
By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
2030
Mauro F. Guillén
2030
How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World
Jim Brumm
Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World
Restoring happiness, balance, and sanity to our lives and our planet
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
The Laws of Human Nature
What affects your day-to-day life
The Biological Mind
Alan Jasanoff
The Biological Mind
How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
Novacene
James Lovelock
Novacene
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
Chernobyl
Serhii Plokhy
Chernobyl
The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Adventures in the Anthropocene
Gaia Vince
Adventures in the Anthropocene
A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
The Fate of Rome
Kyle Harper
The Fate of Rome
Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
The Uninhabitable Earth
A Story of the Future
Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Other Minds
The Octopus And The Evolution Of Intelligent Life
How Bad Are Bananas?
Mike Berners-Lee
How Bad Are Bananas?
The Carbon Footprint of Everything
Scale
Geoffrey West
Scale
The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies and Companies
Drawdown
Paul Hawken (ed.)
Drawdown
The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
A Life on Our Planet
David Attenborough
A Life on Our Planet
My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
The Hidden Life of Trees
What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
The Botany of Desire
Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire
A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
The Secret World of Weather
Tristan Gooley
The Secret World of Weather
How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Ian Morris
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
River of the Gods
Candice Millard
River of the Gods
Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
The Genius of Dogs
Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
The Genius of Dogs
Discovering the Unique Intelligence of Man’s Best Friend
The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman
The Genius of Birds
Behold the brilliance of birds!
A Sky Full of Birds
Matt Merritt
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A Sky Full of Birds
In Search of Murders, Murmurations and Britain’s Great Bird Gatherings
Cat
Katharine M. Rogers
Cat
How humanity fell in love with our feline companions