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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

Michael W. Fox
Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth & Humans

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

Jane Goodall
Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Joan M. Griffin
 Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle the John Muir Trail

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: The Manatee Scientists
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

Jane Moore
Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat

Paula Morin
Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin

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

Roger Tory Peterson
Feeder Birds: Eastern North America
Field Guide to Feeder Birds: Eastern & Central North America

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

Jim Robbins
The Man Who Planted Trees

Julia Rothman
Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the World under the Sea

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

Douglas W. Tallamy
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants

Stan Tekiela
Birds of Pennsylvania Field Guide

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

Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell
 The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big & Small

Jean Vernon
The Secret Lives of Garden Bees

Nathalie Ward
Do Whales Ever...

Sophie Webb
Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage

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

Michael W. Fox
Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth & Humans

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: The Manatee Scientists
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

Sophie Webb
Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage

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