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The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
by Jonathan Rosen  
Powells.com Staff Pick The Life of the Skies is at once a history of bird-watching in America, a meditation on changes in our views about killing animals, and a deeply personal book about the transforming qualities of a life spent observing the natural world. It is a book to...
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
Powells.com Staff Pick Neil Shubin makes tracing our evolutionary origins positively fascinating. Through his work in expeditionary paleontology, Shubin explains the genetic correlations between humans and the animals that inhabited our planet billions of years ago. In a...
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The World without Us
by Alan Weisman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd...
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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
Powells.com Staff Pick This memoir by Edward Abbey recounts his years as a park ranger working at Arches National Park in Utah. Abbey's keen eye and sharp writing clearly impart the beauty of the desert and the importance of preserving our limited natural resources. His...
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Silent Spring : 40TH Anniversary Edition ((Rev)02 Edition)
by Rachel Carson
Powells.com Staff Pick Silent Spring changed the way we thought about the environment and shaped today's environmental movement, calling us to action to protect our surroundings before we destroyed them. Today our impact on the environment is more harmful than ever, and Carson'...
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Ancestor's Tale : a Pilgrimage To the Dawn of Evolution (04 Edition)
by Richard Dawkins
Powells.com Staff Pick "Despite my qualms with the 'Canterbury' chapter and Dawkins's general emphasis on heredity over organismal biology, The Ancestor's Tale is still an engaging history of life on our backwater planet....The pilgrimage metaphor describes the book well. Like...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a refreshingly slim and concise volume, grew out of Elizabeth Kolbert's remarkable series on global warming in the New Yorker. Kolbert spans the globe, from examining ice samples in Greenland to mosquitoes in a lab in...
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The Secret Life of Plants
by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
Powells.com Staff Pick I can't believe I hadn't heard about this book before I found it on the shelf. Published in the 1970s, it explores the relationship between humans and plant life. Numerous scientific studies with lie detector tests, electrodes, and other '70s high-tech...
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My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell
Powells.com Staff Pick This autobiographical work takes place on the island of Corfu when Durrell was a boy. He was pretty much a wild English boy who ended up with a lot of time on his hands, a lot of rugged land to explore, and as a result, a lot of critter friends the...
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Grayson
by Lynne Cox
Powells.com Staff Pick You'd swear from the synopsis that it's fiction, grist for an after-school special or Disney's latest blockbuster. But, no, seventeen-year-old long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox, training one morning off the California coast, discovered a baby gray whale...
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror. Recommended by Kyle, Powells.com...
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M Sapolsky
Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the...
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
Powells.com Staff Pick Not only is paleontologist Flannery's urgent call to arms about global climate change fascinating and terrifying, it is also the most accessible book on the topic around. Flannery writes beautifully, clearly examining every angle of the debate...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a refreshingly slim and concise volume, grew out of Elizabeth Kolbert's remarkable series on global warming in the New Yorker. Kolbert spans the globe, from examining ice samples in Greenland to mosquitoes in a lab in...
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Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds: Western Region
by Donald Stokes
Powells.com Staff Pick Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds is by far the best bird guide on the market. It is straightforwardly organized by plumage color with color tab indexes for quickly finding the bird at your feeder. The large-full color photographs of the male and female...
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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
by Sy Montgomery
Powells.com Staff Pick Montgomery's charmingly funny and moving book portrays the indelible relationship that develops with a sick piglet she nurtures into a thriving 750-pound pig. This heartwarming and unforgettable tale about the extraordinary rapport between a human and an...
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by John Vaillant
Powells.com Staff Pick Set in the vast wilderness of British Columbia, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed encompasses suspense, history, and mythology in equal parts. It is also the saga of the loss of a sacred, beautiful, and botanically unique Sitka...
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
by Mark Obmascik
Powells.com Staff Pick Who knew that bird watching could be so astonishingly competitive? Obmascik's The Big Year follows three birding fanatics, giving us a highly amusing look at the race to hold the record of spotting the most bird species within North America in one year....
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
by Sean Carroll
Powells.com Staff Pick "I know a book on developmental biology isn't the sort of thing that usually leaps off the shelf into people's hands, but if you are at all interested in how our genetic toolboxes work, Endless Forms Most Beautiful is well worth a reading or two." Doug...
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The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket
by Trevor Corson
Powells.com Staff Pick Follow your sushi dinner from ocean to table. Filled with cultural history, science, gastronomical observations, Bourdain-like cooking tales and food facts, The Zen of Fish is ridiculously entertaining and interesting. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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