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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Llamas Beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.Product Det...
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Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.Pro...
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Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century: Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /From the ancient traditions of the Lacandón Maya comes an Indigenous model for a sustainablefutureHaving lived for centuries isolated within Mexico...
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Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century: Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /From the ancient traditions of the Lacandón Maya comes an Indigenous model for a sustainablefuture Having lived for centuries isolated within Mex...
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The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina
PaperbackOriginal price $47.00 - Original price $47.00Original price $47.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /An exploration of omissions, or silences, in previous investigations of agrarian transformations by foregrounding indigenous experiences of capital...
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Prickly Pear: A Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South ...
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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"Ailton Krenak's ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book." -- Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven F...
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