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Nature, Animals & the Environment

Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
Last Chance to See

Barbara Blossom Ashmun
Married to My Garden

Peter Benchley
Shark Life: True Stories about Sharks & the Sea

Raymond Bial
Rescuing Rover: Saving America's Dogs

Derek Brockway & Julian Carey
Weatherman Walking (Walks around Wales)

Dawn Baumann Brunke
Animal Voices: Telepathic Communication in the Web of Life

Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Tim Cahill
Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

Mary Kay Carson
Scientists in the Field: The Bat Scientists

Gerard E. Cheshire
Garden Wildlife: Revealing Your Garden's Secrets
Indoor Wildlife: Revealing the Creatures Inside Your Home

Andrew Cotter
Olive, Mabel & Me: Life & Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs

Lynn Marie Cuny
Through Animal's Eyes: True Stories From a Wildlife Sanctuary

Tim Dietz
Tales of Whales

Richard Ellis
Monsters of the Sea

James D. Fair
100 Great Wildlife Experiences: What to See & Where

Lisa Gensheimer
Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest, with Ed Bernik

Jane Goodall
Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Richard Guy
The Ascent of Man
The Mysterious Receding Seas

Denis Hayes
The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair

Bernd Heinrich
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

Peter Hillyard
The Book of the Spider

David Brendan Hopes
A Sense of the Morning

Mike Horn
Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle

Alexandra Horowitz
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, & Know

Sue Hubbell
Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys In to the Time Before Bones

Jamie James
The Snake Charmer

Steve Jenkins
The Beetle Book

Kenneth Kamler
Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance

John A. Kinch
A Journey for All Seasons: A Cross-Country Celebration of the Natural World

Gene Logsdon
A Sanctuary of Trees: Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats & Benedictions

Peter Lourie
Scientists in the Field: Whaling Season

Margaret Lowman
Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology

Amanda Lumry & Laura Hurwitz
Adventures of Riley: Dolphins in Danger
Adventures of Riley: Mission to Madagascar

Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
The Lost Words
The Lost Words: Spell Songs
The Lost Spells

Joanne L. McGonagle
The Tiniest Tiger

Paula Morin
Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin

Jim Ottaviani
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey & Birute Galdikas

Matt Ritter
A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us

Jim Robbins
The Man Who Planted Trees

Hope Ryden
America's Last Wild Horses

Scott Russell Sanders
Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journey

Vandana Shiva
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge

Andrew Spielman & Michael D'Antonio
Mosquito

Beth Terry
Plastic Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit & How You Can Too

Jean Vernon
The Secret Lives of Garden Bees

Nathalie Ward
 Do Whales Ever...

Simon Wills
A History of Trees

Simon Winchester
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Pacific: Silicon Chips & Surfboards, Coral Reefs & Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, & the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

John Yow
Wyland: 25 Years at Sea

Science

John D. Barrow
The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless & Endless

William M. Bass
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales

Robert W. Bly
The Science in Science Fiction

Alex Boese
Elephants on Acid: & Other Bizarre Experiments

Michael Brooks
13 Things that Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Mary Kay Carson
Scientists in the Field: The Bat Scientists

Disaster Science

Martin Dugard
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

Richard Ellis
Monsters of the Sea

Chuck T. Falcon
Family Desk Reference to Psychology

Stanton T. Friedman
Flying Saucers & Science

Simon Garfield
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time

Louis Haber
Black Pioneers of Science & Invention

Denis Hayes
The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair

Robert M. Hazen & James Trefil
Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

Jamie James
The Snake Charmer

Max Jammer
Einstein & Religion: Physics & Theology

Michio Kaku
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation & Time Travel

Ralph Lewin
Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural & Socio-Historical Coprology

Peter Lourie
Scientists in the Field: Whaling Season

Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

Margaret Lowman
Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology

Stephen Hawley Martin
The Science of Life After Death

Barbara Oakley
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed & My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend

Jim Ottaviani
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey & Birute Galdikas

Ian Passingham
Apollo 11: The Moon Landing in Real Time

Paul Raffaele
Among the Cannibals: Adventures on the Trail of Man's Darkest Ritual

Carol Ann Rinzler
Dictionary of Medical Folklore

Mary Roach
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Frank Ryan
The Mystery of Metamorphosis: A Scientific Detective Story

Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things

Mark Thompson
101 Facts You Didn't Know About Space

E.J. Wagner
The Science of Sherlock Holmes

Philip Zimbardo
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Health & Body Issues

Natalie Angier
Woman: An Intimate Geography

Jim Bailey
The End of Healing

Carlyn Beccia
I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures

Nathan Belofsky
Strange Medicine

Ursula Bielski
There's Something Under the Bed: Children's Experiences with the Paranormal

Grace Bowman
Thin

Jaime Breitnauer
The Spanish Flu Epidemic & Its Influence on History

Rufus C. Camphausen
Return of the Tribal: A Celebration of Body Adornment

Elizabeth J. Cockey
Drawn from Memory: A Personal Story of Healing Through Art

Chuck T. Falcon
Family Desk Reference to Psychology

Charles Gant & Greg Lewis
End Your Addiction Now

Mike George
Learn to Relax: A Practical Guide to Easing Tension & Conquering Stress

Ana Nez Heatherly
Healing Plants: A Medicinal Guide to Native North American Plants & Herbs

Tom Hutton
Carrying the Black Bag: A Neurologist's Bedside Tales

Elisabeth Janos
Country Folk Medicine: Tales of Skunk Oil, Sassafras Tea & Other Old-Time Remedies

Gregory L. Jantz
The Stranger in Your House

Kenneth Kamler
Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance

Daniel Matthew Korn
Why Diet & Exercise Fail: How Current Research Contradicts Conventional Wisdom about Weight Loss

Peter Langman
Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Susan Magee, with Dr. Kara Nakisbendi
The Pregnancy Countdown Book: Nine Months of Practical Tips, Useful Advice & Uncensored Truths

Jacqueline Marcell
Elder Rage, or Take My Father ... Please: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents

Wendy McClure
The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan: Classic Diet Recipe Cards from the 1970s

Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis
I am Your Disease: The Many Faces of Addiction, with Heiko Ganzer

HP Newquist
The Book of Blood: From Legends & Leeches to Vampires & Veins

Michael Putzel
The Price They Paid: Enduring Wounds of War

Marilea C. Rabasa
Stepping Stones: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss & Transformation

Dr. Bob Rich
Striking Back from Down Under

Carol Ann Rinzler
Dictionary of Medical Folklore

Cynthia Sabotka
Life is Like a Line: A Memoir of Moods, Medication & Mania

Lori Schiller & Amanda Bennett
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

Josh Schonwald
The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food

Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things

Marilyn Wann
FAT!SO?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size

David Zinczenko & Matt Goulding
Eat This, Not That! The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution