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Random House USA Inc Foxfire 9
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions.The ninth volume of the series includes information about general stores, the Jud Nelson wagon, a praying rock, a Catawban Indian potter, haint tales, quilting, home cures, and more on the log cabin.
£17.09
Random House Publishing Group Pack of Two
Book SynopsisAt the age of 36, Caroline Knapp, author of the acclaimed bestseller Drinking:A Love Story, found herself confronted with a monumental task: redefining her world. She had faced the loss of both her parents, given up a twenty-year relationship with alcohol, and, as she writes, 'I was wandering around in a haze of uncertainty, blinking up at the biggest questions: Who am I without parents and without alcohol? How to form attachments, and where to find comfort, in the face of such daunting vulnerability?' An answer materialized in the most unlikely form: that of a dog. Eighteen months to the day after she quit drinking, Knapp stumbled upon an eight-week-old puppy at a local animal shelter, took her home, and named her Lucille. Now two years old, Lucille has become a central force in Knapp's life: 'In her,' she writes, 'I have found solace, joy, a bridge to the world.'Caroline Knapp has been celebrated as much for her fr
£13.49
Random House USA Inc American Buffalo In Search of a Lost Icon
Book SynopsisA hunt for the American buffalo, an “immensely readable” (Los Angeles Times) examination of an animal that has haunted the national imagination—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of Netflix’s MeatEater “Both a fascinating piece of outdoor writing and a gonzo meditation on the history of the mighty beast in our national life.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful—Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Th
£14.60
Random House USA Inc Paws Effect
Book SynopsisDogs have always been our friends and changed our lives for the better. But they may save our lives as well. Seamlessly weaving scientific research with compelling narrative, Paws & Effect tells incredibly moving stories of beloved pets who have supported their people through periods of ill health and other crises—with miraculous results: *Little Ben, a Chihuahua who can sense impending epileptic seizures*Abdul, a Golden Retriever/Lab mix, who was the world’s first service dog and helped his owner by retrieving keys and phones, medicine from countertops, water from the refrigerator, and could even hand in credit cards at the grocery store*A Dalmation named Trudii, whose obsessive behavior prompted her owner to seek a medical examination that revealed melanoma
£12.75
Nan A. Talese The Bedside Book of Birds
Book SynopsisFeaturing a new foreword by Margaret Atwood!In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson offers an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds. From the Aztec plumed serpent to the Christian dove to Plato''s vision of the human soul growing wings, religion and philosophy use birds to represent our aspirational selves. Winged creatures appear in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as Ovid, Thoreau, and T. S. Eliot. They''ve been omens, allegories, and guides; they''ve been worshipped, eaten, and feared. Birds figure tellingly in the work of such nature writers as Gilbert White and Peter Matthiessen, and are synonymous with the science of Darwin. Gibson spent years collecting this gorgeously illustrated celebration of centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes. The Bedside Book of Birds is for everyone who
£30.00
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Free Days With George
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£14.41
WW Norton & Co The Book of Universes
Book SynopsisAn unforgettable tour of the strange and wonderful universes that modern physics posits might-just might-be out there.
£19.94
WW Norton & Co Beyond
Book SynopsisBeyond dares to imagine a fantastic future for humans in spaceand then reminds us that we're already there.Trade Review"...Beyond is an irresistible, highly readable book." -- Monica Grady - Times Higher Education"...an engagingly written and stimulating thesis." -- Sky at Night"An astronomer and popular-science author, Impey makes an affable and generally even-handed guide to this fascinating subject, balancing rhetoric about humankind's restless curiosity with sober assessments of what is and is not possible." -- Physics World"Impey's engaging text is easy to read and comprehend, while offering a positive prognosis for humanity's future in space." -- Observatory Magazine"Beyond is a compelling book with great attention to detail and science that is awe-inspiring—it is a stellar read indeed." -- Astronomy Now
£19.79
WW Norton & Co The Source How Rivers Made America and America
Book SynopsisAn Amazon Best Book of the Year How rivers have shaped American politics, economics, and society from the beginnings of the Republic to today.Trade Review"Original [and] poignant. . . . [T]ells the story of how rivers have shaped the United States from its founding." -- Robert Glennon - New York Times Book Review"An original and thought-provoking exploration of the sinuous course that water has carved through our economic and political landscape." -- Gerard Helferich - Wall Street Journal"In [Doyle’s] telling, rivers become a lens on federalism, energy and conservation—a rolling narrative taking us from George Washington's quest to find a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ohio River, through decades of levee-building, flood control, water wars and much more." -- Nature"Authoritative…Even readers with an allergy to learning history will come away with a greater understanding of how rivers have literally made our country." -- Tracy Ross - Outside Magazine"A vigorous look at American history through the nation’s waterways…Doyle speaks well to issues that are as pressing today as in the first years of the republic." -- Kirkus Reviews"Readers interested in everything from American history to business, engineering, environmental concerns, and canoeing will find Doyle’s work absorbing and educational." -- Booklist"Just like its topic, The Source flows magnificently from end to end, carving out a story that spans a continent and several centuries. Martin Doyle weaves together a gripping mix of American history, geology, engineering, economics, and politics to show that American rivers are one of the inspirations of the constitution, the connective fabric of our industry, a triggering cause of environmental movements, and a source of power—physical, economic, and political." -- Michael E. Webber, author of Thirst for Power"Brilliantly conceived, The Source is a unique synthesis that recasts American history and flows with the power of unexpected insight." -- David R. Montgomery, author of Growing A Revolution"Move over Cadillac Desert and The Last Oasis; a new classic on American rivers has arrived. One of the world’s leading authorities on hydrology, Martin Doyle shows how rivers have served as the arteries and veins of the United States since the country’s very founding. It is a rich history both impressive and unsettling." -- James Salzman, author of Drinking Water: A History
£19.94
WW Norton & Co The Alps A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi
Book SynopsisA blend of contemporary travelogue and historical narrative about the Alps from "a graceful and passionate writer" (The Washington Post).Trade Review"Stephen O'Shea's sardonic, science-rich travelogue…" -- Nature"... this book is for the most part a great pleasure to read, and provides a remarkable summary of the life of the high mountains." -- Times Literary Supplement"Veteran traveller Stephen O’Shea takes the reader on a delightful 500-mile historical romp through the Alps... It is well worth making space in the rucksack for this on your next Alpine holiday." -- Geographical"His [Stephen O'Shea's] account of his journey, all 500 miles and seven countries of it, is a soaring success, erudite, entertaining and human... the Alps cry out to be explored. Start with this book." -- i paper
£18.89
WW Norton & Co Bully for Brontosaurus
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Dozens of choice essays. . . . Teaching and its decline . . . and other signs of the decrepitude of the culture balanced by the cheer and zeal with which Gould extols advances in science. . . . Bully for Brontosaurus and bully for Gould too." -- Kirkus Reviews"May be Gould's finest to date. . . . Whether his topic is typewriter design, thetechnical triumph of Voyager or Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak, Gould holds our attention. His essays are illuminating, instructive, and fun to read." -- Publishers Weekly"No living scientist who writes for the public has a better claim to the mantle of Thomas Huxley in range of interests and felicity of style. . . . Bully for Brontosaurus is the fifth and finest selection." -- David Fromkin - Washington Post Book World
£15.19
WW Norton & Co A Stillness in the Pines The Ecology of the Red Cockaded Woodpecker Commonwealth Fund Book Program
Book SynopsisA wonderful book . . . will be enjoyed by anyone with interest in either birds or the impact that humanity is having on its fellow travelers on spaceship earth. -Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population BombTrade Review"Densely packed, adroitly written life history of the red-cockaded woodpecker. . . . Expand[s] our understanding of a single species into a broad appreciation of ecology." -- Kirkus Reviews
£17.58
WW Norton & Co Woodswoman II
Book Synopsis"If you’re looking for a real declaration of independence, and a deeper social experiment, try a woman living alone in the Adirondacks for decades." —Megan Mayhew Bergman, GuardianTrade Review"Anne LaBastille has done it again! What a splendid account of her move deeper into the woods of the Adirondacks—and deeper into her independent life as a consultant and conservationist…A book of the inspirational sort, such as we rarely see." -- Norman Myers, author of The Primary Source: Tropical Forests and Our Future
£12.34
WW Norton & Co Dwellings A Spirtual History of the Living World
Book SynopsisAward-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants.
£11.39
WW Norton & Co Dirt
Book SynopsisA gleeful, poetic bookLike the best natural histories, Dirt is a kind of prayer. Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTrade Review"Logan sets out to purify dirt, to embed us so intimately in the skin of the Earth that we will live momentarily, at least, entranced by its vibrancy…This is the most literate book to bring soil to soul and soul to the subterranean." -- Peter Warshall - Whole Earth"Read this book. You'll know more about that which you are made of and which is essential to all life on the land part of the planet than you thought imaginable." -- Wes Jackson, president and founder of the Land Institute
£14.24
WW Norton & Co The Book of Universes
Book Synopsis“There can be few better guides to the bewildering array of potential universes, and none so readable or entertaining.”—Manjit Kumar, The IndependentTrade Review"Starred Review. A narrative laced with humor and poetry . . . mind-expanding." -- Booklist"A solid overview of the evolution of cosmology, with illuminating coverage of the current state of the art." -- Kirkus Reviews"As it turns out, exercising the brain cells in thinking about such matters is great fun, and The Book of Universes is an excellent place to start such an exploration." -- New Statesman"Entertaining and accessible." -- Publishers Weekly
£12.99
WW Norton & Co The Pluto Files
Book SynopsisWith his inimitable wit, Tyson recounts how America's favourite planet was ousted from the cosmic hub.Trade Review"Now, in The Pluto Files, Tyson offers a highly entertaining history of Pluto..." -- New Scientist
£12.34
WW Norton & Co The Alps
Book SynopsisA blend of contemporary travelogue and historical narrative about the Alps from "a graceful and passionate writer" (The Washington Post).Trade Review"Stephen O'Shea's sardonic, science-rich travelogue…" -- Nature"His [Stephen O'Shea's] account of his journey, all 500 miles and seven countries of it, is a soaring success, erudite, entertaining and human... the Alps cry out to be explored. Start with this book." -- i paper"Veteran traveller Stephen O’Shea takes the reader on a delightful 500-mile historical romp through the Alps... It is well worth making space in the rucksack for this on your next Alpine holiday." -- Geographical
£12.34
WW Norton & Co The Seine
Book SynopsisA vibrant, intimate tour of the Seine.Trade Review"I learned so much from this book. Elaine Sciolino is a graceful, companionable writer, someone who speaks about France in the most enjoyably American way... [She] proceeds from colorful detail to revealing detail, gently informing even as she entertains... Sciolino has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light." -- Edmund White - The New York Times"A soulful, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light. Elaine Sciolino is the perfect guide to the world’s most romantic river." -- Lauren Collins - The New Yorker
£13.29
WW Norton & Co Gigantic Cinema A Weather Anthology
Book SynopsisA luminous, "deliciously playful" (Rishi Dastidar, Guardian) anthology of poems and prose inspired by the weather.Trade Review"A dazzling anthology... This astonishingly accomplished and varied assembly of poems and literary gems will delight readers year-round, and in any weather." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A deliciously playful reminder that the greatest show on the planet is what happens in the skies and all around us." -- Rishi Dastidar - Guardian"The weather comes at you, page after page, with an almighty and unstoppable roar of terrifying magnificence." -- Michael Glover - Tablet"A capacious selection of writings about the whether... The 300 entries are vibrant, evocative, and sometimes surprising... A delightful collection." -- Kirkus Reviews"A brilliant anthology of disturbances and interruptions, in which finite mortals struggle to express the mysteries of invisible forces that tangle the sense." -- Joanna Kavenna - Literary Review
£15.19
WW Norton & Co What Is the Grass
Book Synopsis“[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"What Is the Grass doesn’t possess a single inelegant sentence or poorly expressed thought.… [A]n excellent opportunity to re-examine the work of one of America’s first major poets through the prose of one of its best living ones." -- Scott Bradfield - Washington Post"[Doty] animates Walt Whitman’s joyful proclamation that everything is connected." -- The New Yorker"A celebration of gay manhood, queerness, and the power and elasticity of poetry." -- Martha Anne Toll - NPR"What Is the Grass may be the definitive book on Whitman’s life, afterlife and poetry. But it’s the moments in Doty’s own life… that the book truly glistens." -- Jessica Ferri - Los Angeles Times"[Mark] Doty puts on a clinic in how to read closely but expansively.… This is shining proof that criticism can make you want to hold it close." -- John Freeman - LitHub"[A] masterful example [of the hybrid memoir]—weaving a close reading of Whitman’s life and writings into Doty’s own ruminations on art, queerness, humanism, and the American experience." -- Arianna Rebolini - Buzzfeed"[A] dazzling and discursive meditation on Walt Whitman’s poetry.… In this homage to a poet whose voice has become a ‘permanent presence’ in his head, [Doty] has written a masterpiece, one that is as rapturously fine as the book he so lovingly and intelligently elucidates." -- Phil Gambone - Gay and Lesbian Review"Exuberant.… This is Doty at his best: In gorgeous, calibrated sentences, he evokes the flourishes and sprung rhythms that make Whitman so contemporary." -- Hamilton Cain - San Francisco Chronicle"What Is the Grass is a deep dive into Walt Whitman’s life, work, worldview, and something that feels like his cosmic theology. As if that weren’t enough, we’re also invited into Mark Doty’s own candid self-seeking, in episodes of the author’s life rendered in generous complexity. This beautiful, ingenious book affirms my belief in language as a living thing, and in the universe as a place overflowing with purpose and meaning. I wish all of the great poets could be reintroduced to me in such fashion!" -- Tracy K. Smith"Quick-witted, slyly erotic, and sometimes ecstatic, this book explores Mark Doty’s relationship with Walt Whitman, or with the idea of Walt Whitman. It is intimate in its reality and in all that it imagines, and it captures with splendid lyricism the author’s generous obsession with his forebear. Mark Doty has written a literate and lovely volume." -- Andrew Solomon
£12.34
WW Norton & Co Himalaya A Human History
Book SynopsisA magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains.Trade Review"[Himalaya]is the fruit of an enormous amount of research. . . [Douglas’s] observations are sharp, and in many passages, his writing glows." -- Jeffrey Gettleman - New York Times Book Review"[An] ambitious, learned account….Douglas portrays a complex, populated landscape and an intricate patchwork of cultures. …His book seeks to reclaim humans from geography, and to recapture the lived experience of the Himalaya." -- Akash Kapur - New Yorker"The candor of Douglas’s telling shows us that in the Western mind Utopias were “simply orientalist fantasies projected on Himalaya.” His gripping storytelling achieves a summit at a vista overlooking the Himalayas in words that no photo could conjure." -- Christopher King - Air Mail"Douglas has achieved something more valuable than describe current events: he has examined the ancient origins of those events with a scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history." -- Victor Mallet - Financial Times"An extraordinarily rich and wide investigation into the exhilarating story of the Himalaya. Ed Douglas knows this story in his bones, from his travels and a wonderful range of scholarship, which leaves him perfectly placed to fill a huge gap in our view of how the world fits together." -- Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World
£30.39
WW Norton & Co A World on the Wing
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration.Trade Review"[A] gripping journey alongside the world’s feathered wanderers and the people who study them.... Brims with spectacle.... As the birds flit through these pages, but with ever less frequency through our lives, we can only hope that birders and non-birders alike take inspiration and a call to action from A World on the Wing. This is the kind of book we’ve been waiting for." -- Christian Cooper - New York Times"A World on the Wing is a paean to the beauty of data, viewed in masses, and to citizen science taking ornithology by storm.... Mr. Weidensaul offers the astonishment of birds’ travels, deep concern for their populations and hope for their future in well-measured, beautifully realized doses." -- Julie Zickefoose - Wall Street Journal"I’m not a birder, but Weidensaul persuades me that I could be, and that a greater appreciation of the movement and behaviour of migratory birds might bring me into closer contact with what it means to be a living thing on Earth.... [Weidensaul is] a master storyteller.... What emerges is an emphatic statement of confidence in nature’s resilience—a vision of nature as a force that we and our science are irrefutably a part of." -- Ashish Ghadiali - The Guardian"In vivid prose that conjures up the rich spell of each landscape, Scott Weidensaul takes us on exhilarating expeditions that crisscross the globe and travel deep into the heart of nature. For lifelong experts and backyard birders alike, he’s a superb guide to the winged marvels that share our planet and our lives." -- Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper’s Wife"Scott Weidensaul, one of our finest nature writers, has produced another instant classic. In A World on the Wing he takes a pair of highly complex subjects—global patterns of bird migration, and the research into those patterns—and brings them to life with his own amazing adventures around the world. Here is proof that a book of solid science can also be a page-turner. Highly recommended for anyone curious about the natural world." -- Kenn Kaufman, author of the Kaufman Field Guides"Weidensaul’s dispatches are fascinating. Chapter by chapter, my jaw dropped and my eyes widened. The science of bird migration has reached a golden age, and we’re lucky to have such a graceful guide. This book is instantly among my all-time favorites, and one I’ll keep to reread." -- Noah Strycker, author of Birding Without Borders"The miracle of birds meets the miracle of technology in Scott Weidensaul’s wondrous new book, A World on the Wing. While there are huge gaps in our knowledge of migration and there is despair in our race to save species, advances in technology from microscopic transmitters to agile drones are changing the equation and making the future look hopeful. This is a book you won’t want to put down." -- Jane Alexander, actress, writer and wildlife conservationist"Weidensaul addresses migratory birds’ changing reality and the scientists who work tirelessly to learn more about them and advocate on their behalf.... The plight and toughness of both birds and their human defenders will move you in lasting ways." -- BookPage, starred review"Weidensaul is a peerless guide, sharing his intoxicating passion and decadeslong experience with countless bird species all over the world.... Another winner from Weidensaul that belongs in every birder’s library." -- Kirkus, starred review"Many mysteries of bird life and migration are revealed in this compelling and illuminating in-the-field narrative complete with maps and photographs." -- Booklist, starred review
£23.74
WW Norton & Co Where the Animals Go Tracking Wildlife with
Book Synopsis"Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the best in science and exposition, and a joy to study cover to cover." —Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityTrade Review"[Where the Animals Go] is an enthralling volume, downright gorgeous in its illustrations and text. Its double intent is brilliant, too — to bring each of us closer to the animal world and to highlight fresh ways to think about conservation." -- Barbara King - NPR"Where the Animals Go elegantly elucidates the role new technologies has played in expanding our knowledge of animal migration." -- Science"Cheshire and Uberti write about billions of data points being collected—some by citizen scientists—and their ravishing maps put this information to good use…[They] show us with precision and clarity where the animals go." -- The Washington Post"This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats." -- Jane Goodall"In recent years, technology has made it possible to track animal movements from afar in more and more detail… [Cheshire and Uberti] have dipped into this deluge of data to create 50 beautiful and engaging maps that reveal the wanderings of animals." -- National Geographic"A striking example of how innovative technology can be used to increase our understanding of the natural world." -- Financial Times"This is a special kind of detective story. After millennia of using footprints, feces, feathers, broken foliage and nests to track animals, the process is now so teched up you need to read this book to find out the how, what and why." -- New Scientist"[A] stunning translation of movement onto paper." -- Scientific American"[W]ell laid out, easy to understand and a pleasure to return to many times." -- Seattle Times"An enthralling look at the world that technology can help us uncover… Exquisite." -- Emily Scragg - British Trust for Ornithology"Part coffee-table album, part scientific research compendium, [Where the Animals Go] presents these global perambulations in lush detail, reveling in their minutiae and in the technological leaps that make such observations possible. . . tracking an animal through time and space transforms it from a mere object of scientific interest into a story whose unsolved mysteries capture our imagination." -- M. R. O'Connor - Undark Magazine"[A] gorgeous data trove… Accompanying the text are beautifully designed four-color maps and other visualizations … [A]n inspiring introduction to an important area of science." -- Library Journal
£30.40
WW Norton & Co Mamas Last Hug
Book SynopsisA New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.Trade Review"Through colorful stories and riveting prose, de Waal firmly puts to rest the stubborn notion that humans alone in the animal kingdom experience a broad array of emotions....De Waal contributes immensely to an ethical sea change for animals." -- Barbara J. King - NPR"De Waal’s eye-opening observations argue for better treatment and greater appreciation of animals, even as he ensures that you’ll never look at them—or yourself—the same way again." -- People"Game-changing....For too long, emotion has been cognitive researchers’ third rail....But nothing could be more essential to understanding how people and animals behave. By examining emotions in both, this book puts these most vivid of mental experiences in evolutionary context, revealing how their richness, power and utility stretch across species and back into deep time....The book succeeds most brilliantly in the stories de Waal relates." -- Sy Montgomery - The New York Times Book Review"An original thinker, [de Waal] seems to invite us to his front-row seats, sharing the popcorn as he gets us up to speed on the plot of how life works, through deeply affecting stories of primates and other animals, all dramas with great lessons for our own species." -- Vicki Constantine Croke - Boston Globe"De Waal’s conversational writing is at times moving, often funny and almost always eye-opening....It’s hard to walk away from Mama’s Last Hug without a deeper understanding of our fellow animals and our own emotions." -- Erin Wayman - Science News"A captivating and big-hearted book, full of compassion and brimming with insights about the lives of animals, including human ones." -- Yuval Noah Harari, New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"Before I realized Frans de Waal’s connection to Mama’s actual last hug, I sent the online video link to a large group of scientists saying, ‘I believe it is possible to view this interaction and be changed forever.’ Likewise, I believe that anyone reading this book will be changed forever. De Waal has spent so many decades watching intently and thinking deeply that he sees a planet that is deeper and more beautiful than almost anyone realizes. In these pages, you can acquire and share his beautiful, shockingly insightful view of life on Earth." -- Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel"I doubt that I've ever read a book as good as Mama's Last Hug, because it presents in irrefutable scientific detail the very important fact that animals do have these emotions as well as the other mental features we once attributed only to people. Not only is the book exceedingly important, it's also fun to read, a real page-turner. I can't say enough good things about it except it's utterly splendid." -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas"Frans de Waal is one of the most influential primatologists to ever walk the earth, changing the way we think of human nature by exploring its continuity with other species. He does this again in the wonderful Mama’s Last Hug, an examination of the continuum between emotion in humans and other animals. This subject is rife with groundless speculation, ideology, and badly misplaced folk intuition, and de Waal ably navigates it with deep insight, showing the ways in which our emotional lives are shared with other primates. This is an important book, wise and accessible." -- Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst"In Mama’s Last Hug, Frans de Waal marshals his wealth of knowledge and experience, toggling expertly between rigorous science and captivating anecdote to explain animal behavior—humans included. While doing so, he rebukes the common conceit that we are necessarily better, or smarter, than our closest relatives." -- Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows
£20.89
WW Norton & Co A Dog Runs Through It Poems
Book SynopsisA moving selection of poems for dog lovers, accompanied by charismatic line drawings, from a poet with an "unfailing mastery of her medium" (New York Times Book Review).Trade Review"An utterly delightful book—from the nimble line illustrations to the pristine visuals of the poems themselves, doled out with equal parts rue, whimsy, and wisdom." -- Rita Dove - New York Times Magazine"The National Book Award finalist captures the irreplaceable love of a woman for her canine in this wistful, witty collection." -- O Magazine"Written with Pastan’s natural strengths—lyrical lines, fluidity and grace. Whether by parable, anecdote, elegy, or narrative, Pastan’s dogs are blessed with poetry’s name by one of our best." -- Washington Independent Review of Books
£14.24
WW Norton & Co The Sound of the Sea Seashells and the Fate of
Book SynopsisA history of shells and the creatures that make them, revealing their outsized role in human affairs and what they have to tell us about the changing oceans.Trade Review"Will have you marveling at nature… Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation." -- 24 Books to Read this Summer - The New York Times Book Review"... Cynthia Barnett presents us with a glittering Wunderkammer for our age, a staggeringly varied history — scientific, cultural, philosophical and economic — of one of the most beloved and enduring natural objects on Earth: the seashell... “The Sound of the Sea” is a glorious history of shells and of those who have loved shells. It is a history of fascination and of shame. It stretches our capacity to absorb new knowledge. It is as complex, multichambered and beautiful as its subject, and if Barnett can awaken our sense of wonder, then perhaps there is hope for jump-starting our collective sense of responsibility toward the oceans and one another." -- Katherine Norbury - The Washington Post"“Seashells were money before coin, jewellery before gems, art before canvas,” says science writer Cynthia Barnett in her arresting meditation on shells and ocean history." -- Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks - Nature
£19.79
WW Norton & Co Planta Sapiens
Book SynopsisAn astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence.Trade Review"A fascinating description of how plants interact with the environment in myriad ways." -- Temple Grandin - New York Times Book Review"Provocative.... Science, at its best, progresses through a reciprocal interplay between speculation and experimentation. Calvo’s stimulating book draws us into that process." -- David George Haskell - Scientific American"Calvo raises some fascinating questions." -- Barbara J. King - Washington Post"Remarkable.... Calvo has a wonderfully infectious enthusiasm for his subject that makes this book, for all its complex science, a joy to read. He challenges us to set aside our ‘zoocentric’ perspective and to change our view of plants radically: from mechanisms akin to robots to complex organisms with a range of behaviours, responding to and anticipating their environments. In doing so, he has written a genuinely mind-expanding book." -- PD Smith - The Guardian"Planta Sapiens is [a] bold and brave paean to our planet’s ligneous, leafy kingdom. I mostly relished the intellectual interrogation, the maverick thinking, and add my voice to his call to think beyond our prejudices and our anthropocentric indoctrination." -- Jackie Higgins - Daily Telegraph"We are unimaginable without plants, yet surprisingly blind to their powers and behaviors. Planta Sapiens weaves science and history into an absorbing exploration of the many ways that plants rise to the challenge of living." -- Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life"Planta Sapiens presents ‘fertile possibilities’ to the public and in doing so it has put science on notice. All plants are juggling to respond to climatic change. They are encoded to anticipate this, with their attentive neurobiochemistry driven by a helix that is so similar to that of the human family. Should we be surprised? No! We should be delighted with Professor Calvo’s seeding of scientific curiosity for the hope that it offers." -- Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of To Speak for the Trees"Deeply thought-provoking. Planta Sapiens is a mind-opening meditation about the inner lives of plants. Whether you come away convinced that plants are conscious, or not, this book will change—and enrich—the way you look at the green life all around you." -- Anil Seth, author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness"Mind-blowing.... This impressive addition to the growing literature on how plants experience the world will change how readers see the flora around them." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"Are plants sentient? ... Along with fascinating examples, Calvo devotes equal space to arguments with philosophers and fellow scientists over the meaning of intelligence. Readers will find it difficult to resist his claim that plants tailor their forms and experiences to their environments in a way that animals simply cannot.... Persuasive evidence for plant intelligence." -- Kirkus Reviews
£21.59
WW Norton & Co A World on the Wing The Global Odyssey of
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration.Trade Review"[A] gripping journey alongside the world’s feathered wanderers and the people who study them.... Brims with spectacle.... As the birds flit through these pages, but with ever less frequency through our lives, we can only hope that birders and non-birders alike take inspiration and a call to action from A World on the Wing. This is the kind of book we’ve been waiting for." -- Christian Cooper - New York Times"A World on the Wing is a paean to the beauty of data, viewed in masses, and to citizen science taking ornithology by storm.... Mr. Weidensaul offers the astonishment of birds’ travels, deep concern for their populations and hope for their future in well-measured, beautifully realized doses." -- Julie Zickefoose - Wall Street Journal"I’m not a birder, but Weidensaul persuades me that I could be, and that a greater appreciation of the movement and behaviour of migratory birds might bring me into closer contact with what it means to be a living thing on Earth.... [Weidensaul is] a master storyteller.... What emerges is an emphatic statement of confidence in nature’s resilience—a vision of nature as a force that we and our science are irrefutably a part of." -- Ashish Ghadiali - The Guardian"In vivid prose that conjures up the rich spell of each landscape, Scott Weidensaul takes us on exhilarating expeditions that crisscross the globe and travel deep into the heart of nature. For lifelong experts and backyard birders alike, he’s a superb guide to the winged marvels that share our planet and our lives." -- Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper’s Wife"Scott Weidensaul, one of our finest nature writers, has produced another instant classic. In A World on the Wing he takes a pair of highly complex subjects—global patterns of bird migration, and the research into those patterns—and brings them to life with his own amazing adventures around the world. Here is proof that a book of solid science can also be a page-turner. Highly recommended for anyone curious about the natural world." -- Kenn Kaufman, author of the Kaufman Field Guides"Weidensaul’s dispatches are fascinating. Chapter by chapter, my jaw dropped and my eyes widened. The science of bird migration has reached a golden age, and we’re lucky to have such a graceful guide. This book is instantly among my all-time favorites, and one I’ll keep to reread." -- Noah Strycker, author of Birding Without Borders"The miracle of birds meets the miracle of technology in Scott Weidensaul’s wondrous new book, A World on the Wing. While there are huge gaps in our knowledge of migration and there is despair in our race to save species, advances in technology from microscopic transmitters to agile drones are changing the equation and making the future look hopeful. This is a book you won’t want to put down." -- Jane Alexander, actress, writer and wildlife conservationist"Weidensaul is a peerless guide, sharing his intoxicating passion and decadeslong experience with countless bird species all over the world.... Another winner from Weidensaul that belongs in every birder’s library." -- Kirkus, starred review"Many mysteries of bird life and migration are revealed in this compelling and illuminating in-the-field narrative complete with maps and photographs." -- Booklist, starred review"Weidensaul addresses migratory birds’ changing reality and the scientists who work tirelessly to learn more about them and advocate on their behalf.... The plight and toughness of both birds and their human defenders will move you in lasting ways." -- BookPage, starred review
£14.24
WW Norton & Co Himalaya
Book SynopsisA magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains.Trade Review"[Himalaya] is the fruit of an enormous amount of research…[Douglas’s] observations are sharp, and in many passages, his writing glows." -- Jeffrey Gettleman - New York Times Book Review"[An] ambitious, learned account….Douglas portrays a complex, populated landscape and an intricate patchwork of cultures. …His book seeks to reclaim humans from geography, and to recapture the lived experience of the Himalaya." -- Akash Kapur - New Yorker"The candor of Douglas’s telling shows us that in the Western mind Utopias were 'simply orientalist fantasies projected on Himalaya.' His gripping storytelling achieves a summit at a vista overlooking the Himalayas in words that no photo could conjure." -- Christopher King - Air Mail"Douglas has achieved something more valuable than describe current events: he has examined the ancient origins of those events with a scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history." -- Victor Mallet - Financial Times"An extraordinarily rich and wide investigation into the exhilarating story of the Himalaya. Ed Douglas knows this story in his bones, from his travels and a wonderful range of scholarship, which leaves him perfectly placed to fill a huge gap in our view of how the world fits together." -- Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World
£18.99
Random House USA Inc The Immense Journey
Book SynopsisAnthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.
£9.87
Alfred A. Knopf Pocket Guide to Familiar Insects and Spiders of
Book SynopsisA portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.The National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Insects and Spiders is the essential pocket-size guide to 80 of the most abundant and colorful insects and spiders in North America. Small enough to fit in your back pocket and featuring stunning full-color photographs and concise descriptions, this handy guide is the ideal companion for any outdoor excusion, and perfect for beginners and experts alike.
£10.79
Alfred A. Knopf Pocket Guide to Familiar Mammals of North America
Book SynopsisA portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.This National Audubon Society Pocket Guide gives full coverage to 80 of the most common and distinctive mammals in North America, from the Arctic to the Mexican border, and from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. An additional 30 important mammals are included under the heading Similar Species, raising to 110 the total number of mammals described in this guide.
£13.56
Houghton Mifflin A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs Northeastern
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£19.24
Cengage Learning, Inc Peterson Field Guide To Eastern Trees A
Book SynopsisIdentifies more than 400 species of trees found in the eastern United States and Canada.
£20.89
Houghton Mifflin Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants Eastern and
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£17.72
Houghton Mifflin Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central
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£19.09
Penguin Putnam Inc Cat Daddy
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£15.19
Penguin Putnam Inc This Book Was a Tree Ideas Adventures and
Book SynopsisAt no time in human history have we been more disconnected with what lies outside our front doors. Within just a century, our relationship with our surroundings has transformed from one of exploration to one of disassociation. In This Book Was a Tree, science teacher Marcie Cuff issues a call for a new era of pioneers—not leathery, backwoods deerskin-wearing salt pork and hominy pioneers, but strong-minded, clever, crafty, mudpie-making, fort-building individuals committed to examining the natural world and deciphering nature’s perplexing puzzles.Within each chapter, readers will discover a principle for reconnecting with the natural world around them, from learning to be still to discovering the importance of giving back. With a mix of science and hands-on crafts and activities, readers will be encouraged to brainstorm, imagine, and understand the world as inventive scientists—to touch, collect, document, sketch, decode, analyze, experiment, unravel, i
£13.29
Penguin Publishing Group Catification Designing a Happy and Stylish Home
Book SynopsisA New York Times bestseller! The star of Animal Planet’s hit television series My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, shows cat owners everywhere how to make their homes both cat-friendly and chic. Cat owners know the struggles of creating living spaces that are both functional and stylish for owner and cat. Don’t just go to your local pet shop and adorn your home with unattractive cat towers and kitty beds. In Catification, Jackson Galaxy, the star of Animal Planet’s My Cat from Hell, and Kate Benjamin, founder of a popular cat design website, walk readers through a step-by-step process of designing an attractive home that is also an optimal environment for cats. This gorgeously designed, full-color book includes more than twenty fun DIY projects, from kitty beds and litter boxes to catios (cat patios) that will be sure to make readers—and their cats—purr in appr
£20.00
Tarcher/Putnam,US Fat Cat Art
Book SynopsisInternet meme meets classical art in Svetlana Petrova''s brilliant FAT CAT ART. Featuring her twenty-two-pound, ginger-colored cat Zarathustra superimposed onto some of the greatest artworks of all time, Petrova''s paintings are an Internet sensation. Now fans will have the ultimate full-colour collection of her work, including several never-before-seen pieces, to savour for themselves or to give as a gift to fellow cat lovers.From competing with Venus''s sexy reclining pose (and almost knocking her off her chaise lounge in the process) in Titian''s Venus of Urbino, to exhibiting complete disdain as he skirts away from God''s pointing finger in Michelangelo''s Creation of Adam, Zarathustra single-handedly rewrites art history in the way that only an adorable fat cat can.Full colour throughoutIt''s official. That thing that classic art has been missing is a chubby reclining kitty.-The Huffington Post
£12.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Men Cats Men and
Book SynopsisA brilliant collection of photographs that brings together two of the world's favorite things: hot men and cute kittens. Based on the chic French Tumblr Des Hommes et des Chatons, Men & Cats presents an original collection of 50 pairs of sexy men and adorable cats. Each clever match-up shows a heartthrob posing alongside a cat in a similar pose or with a similar expression. Not sure if you want to look at sexy men or cute cats? With this book, you don't have to choose.
£12.75
Penguin Putnam Inc The Cloudspotters Guide
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£16.15
Penguin Putnam Inc WhooKu Haiku A Great Horned Owl Story
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£15.29
Penguin Putnam Inc The Genius of Birds
Book SynopsisAn award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores their newly discovered brilliance and how it came about. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research, Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are shifting our view of what it means to be intelligent. At once personal yet scientific, richly informative and beautifully written, The Genius of Birds celebrates the triumphs of these surprising and fiercely intelligent creatures.Ackerman is also the author of Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast.
£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Autumn
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£13.46
Penguin Putnam Inc Winter
Book SynopsisThe second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one's skin. It's strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pajamas, a shoe. In my life it almost never happens anymore. But soon it will. In just a few months, I will see you for the first time. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays--to name just a handf
£13.46
Penguin Putnam Inc Summer
Book SynopsisThe grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm KieferThe conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father. Documenting his family's life in rural Sweden and reflecting on a characteristically eclectic array of subjects--mosquitoes, barbeques, cynicism, and skin, to name just a few--he braids the various threads of the previous volumes into a moving conclusion. At his most voluminous since My Struggle, his epic sensational
£14.76
