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  • Inside of a Dog

    What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

    The #1 New York Times bestselling book from the author of The Year of the Puppy that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’ perceptual and cognitive abilities and then ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • An Immense World

    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

    by Ed Yong ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong“One of this year’s finest works of narrative nonfiction.”—Oprah DailyONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <e ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend

    A Training Manual for Dog Owners

    For more than a quarter century, How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend has been the standard against which all other dog-training books have been measured. This expanded edition preserves the best features of the original classic while bringing the book fully up-to-date. The result: the ultimate training manual for a new generation of dog owners--and, of course, for their canine best friends.The Monks ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Book of Eels

    Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

    Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human conditionRemarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the “eel question”: Where do eels come from? ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mind of the Raven

    Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds

    Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world. At the heart of this book are Heinrich's love and respect ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Tribe of Tiger

    Cats and Their Culture

    From the majestic Bengal tiger to the domesticated Siamese comes a meditation on cats from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Social Lives of DogsFrom as far back in time as the disappearance of the dinosaurs, cats have occupied an important place in our evolutionary, social, and cultural history. The family of the cat is as diverse as it is widespread, ranging from the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Selfish Gene

    40th Anniversary edition

    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Of Wolves and Men

    by Barry Lopez ...
    National Book Award Finalist: A “brilliant” study of the science and mythology of the wolf by the New York Times–bestselling author of Arctic Dreams (The Washington Post).When John Fowles reviewed Of Wolves and Men, he called it “A remarkable book, both biologically absorbing and humanly rich, and one that should be read by every concerned American.” In this National Book Award–shortlisted work, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

    by Frans de Waal ...
    A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The AtlanticHailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Becoming Wild

    How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

    by Carl Safina ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020**"In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."**—The Washington PostNew York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures—what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them.A New York Times ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Through a Window

    My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

    by Jane Goodall ...
    The renowned British primatologist continues the “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania (Publishers Weekly).In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.On the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parasite Rex

    Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

    by Carl Zimmer ...
    Combining the literary sensibility of David Quammen with the scientific rigor of Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Zimmer reveals the power, danger, and beauty of the surprising creatures who dominate the earth: parasites.For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and the darkest shadows of science. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer takes readers on a fantastic voyage into the secret ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Dragon Behind the Glass

    A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish

    by Emily Voigt ...
    WINNER OF THE 2017 NASW SCIENCE IN SOCIETY JOURNALISM AWARDA FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCEA LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR“[A] curiously edifying book.” —The New York Times Book Review“With the taut suspense of a spy no... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage

    Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers

    While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life–namely her dear husband, Scott? In this lively and perceptive book, Sutherland tells how she took the trainers’ lessons home.The next time her forgetful husband stomped through the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Beauty

    How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us

    **A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNALA major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.**In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy

    What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves

    From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space.Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Eels

    An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish

    by James Prosek ...
    “Eels [is] more than a fish book. It is an impassioned defense of nature itself. . . . [Prosek] passes on the truth that the often disdained eel, like all migratory fish, is vital and mysterious and worthy of our full effort to bring it back.” — New York Times Book Review“A wonderful account of far-flung travels in pursuit of the secrets of the earth’s most mysterious fish. . . . Fascinating and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

    by Frans de Waal ...
    In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Inside Animal Hearts and Minds

    Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion

    by Belinda Recio ...
    As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are of degree and not of kind.” Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when tickled, magpies mourn as they cover the departed with greenery, female whales travel thousands of miles for annual reunions with their gal pals, seals ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Social Lives of Dogs

    The Grace of Canine Company

    The groundbreaking, New York Times–bestselling book on canine behavior and how dogs become family from the author of The Hidden Life of Dogs.In the sequel to her New York Times bestseller The Hidden Lives of Dogs, anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas profiles the assortment of canines in her own household to examine how dogs have comfortably adapted to life with their human owners—and with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reign of Wolf 21

    The Saga of Yellowstone's Legendary Druid Pack

    by Rick McIntyre ...
    Series Book 2 - The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone
    “A redemption story, an adventure story, and perhaps above all, a love story.”—Nate Blakeslee, New York Times-bestselling author of American WolfThe Druid Peak Pack was the most famous wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park, and maybe even in the world.This is the dramatic true story of its remarkable leader, Wolf 21—whose compassion and loyalty challenges commonly held beliefs about alpha males ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sun Is a Compass

    A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

    For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure.During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker

    by J. A. Baker ...
    J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writingDespite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the visitors from the uplands – peregrines that spend the winter hunting the huge flocks of pigeons and waders that share the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tales from Both Sides of the Brain

    A Life in Neuroscience

    Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the father of cognitive neuroscience,” was part of a team of pioneering neuroscientists who developed the now ... Read more

    $13.99 USD