Category - Nature
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The Dahlia Primer
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /This book was written to remove the cloud of mystique that has always surrounded the dahlia. The Dahlia Primer introduces the dahlia its history...
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Language of Flowers
PaperbackOriginal price $6.95 - Original price $6.95Original price $6.95$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Wonderfully illustrated book by famed 19th-century illustrator lists over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents — tulip = fame; blue violet...
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper int...
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The Extratempestrial Model
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In The Extratempestrial Model, Dr. Michael P. Masters posits that UFOs and "Aliens" are our future human descendants, coming back through time to v...
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After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This "ambitious [and] delightful" (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant ...
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The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology
PaperbackOriginal price $64.99 - Original price $64.99Original price $64.99$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /In The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition, author Jonathan Marks presents an innovative framework for thinking abo...
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People, Parks, and Power: The Ethics of Conservation-Related Resettlement
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book presents a critical review of the ethics of conservation-related resettlement. We examine what has become known as the" parks versus peop...
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Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience: Case Studies from the African Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Disaster research has been studied from many angles, seldom targeting its implications for vulnerable territories in Africa. Entities most subject...
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What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China—and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worldsWha...
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The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Following one woman’s voyage across the Antarctic, this elegant debut confronts the dark history of the whaling industry and the mystery of one y...
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The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives it Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwi...
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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerExploring pressing issues of climate change, habitat loss and conservation, The Age of Deer revolves around humanity’s ...
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River Life and the Upspring of Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existe...
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Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environme...
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Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a...
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Wildscape: Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and Other Sensory Wonders of Nature
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From Nancy Lawson, author of The Humane Gardener, a first-of-its-kind guide that takes readers on an insightful and personal exploration of the sec...
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire ...
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The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A New York Times bestseller about how cats conquered the world and our hearts in this “deep and illuminating perspective on our favorite househol...
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Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, an eye-opening, informative, “entertaining, and enlig...
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How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A remarkable combination of biology, genetics, zoology, evolutionary psychology and philosophy.” —Richard Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ...
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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, educat...
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The Oak Papers
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree."—Peter Wohl...
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What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China—and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worldsWha...
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Birds of Passage: Hunting and Conservation in Malta
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Bird migration between Europe and Africa is a fraught journey, particularly in the Mediterranean, where migratory birds are shot and trapped in l...
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