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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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An Immense World

By Ed Yong ,

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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
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Islands of Abandonment

By Cal Flyn ,

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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth

By Henry Gee ,

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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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A Life on Our Planet

By David Attenborough ,

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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
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How the World Really Works

By Vaclav Smil ,

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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Every Living Thing

By Jason Roberts ,

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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
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The Sound of the Sea

By Cynthia Barnett ,

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Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds
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Notes from Deep Time

By Helen Gordon ,

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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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Otherlands

By Thomas Halliday ,

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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

By Steve Brusatte ,

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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
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Urban Jungle

By Ben Wilson ,

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On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging
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On Gallows Down

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
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Birds and Us

By Tim Birkhead ,

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Deep Time: A journey through 4.5 billion years of our planet
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Deep Time

By Riley Black ,

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A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou
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A Thousand Trails Home

By Seth Kantner ,

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Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
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Metazoa

By Peter Godfrey-Smith ,

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The Malay Archipelago
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The Malay Archipelago

By Alfred Russel Wallace ,

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Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
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Under the Henfluence

By Tove Danovich ,

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Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
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Pump

By Bill Schutt ,

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Idle Days in Patagonia
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Idle Days in Patagonia

By William Henry Hudson ,

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One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth
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One Midsummer's Day

By Mark Cocker ,

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Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky
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Swifts and Us

By Sarah Gibson ,

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Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal
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Bitch

By Lucy Cooke ,

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Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
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Silent Earth

By Dave Goulson ,

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The Heartbeat of Trees
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The Heartbeat of Trees

By Peter Wohlleben ,

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Life Between the Tides
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Life Between the Tides

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Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station
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Tutira

By H. Guthrie-Smith ,

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We Belong to Gaia
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We Belong to Gaia

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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
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Jellyfish Age Backwards

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The Evolution of Charles Darwin
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin

By Diana Preston ,

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Raven's Witness: The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson
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Raven's Witness

By Hank Lentfer ,

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Psych
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Psych

By Paul Bloom ,

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Seaweeds of the World
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Seaweeds of the World

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Bite
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Bite

By Bill Schutt ,

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Carbon
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Carbon

By Paul Hawken ,

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Ocean
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Ocean

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