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An Immense World (2022) explores the sensory worlds of animals, highlighting how they differ from the human experience. Tracing sight, sound, touch, and more, it shares the various ways animals sense our world – and the extra information they glean with the help of their specialized senses.

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Ed Yong is a British science writer at the Atlantic. He’s written for numerous publications, received a Pulitzer Prize, and published two books: I Contain Multitudes and An Immense World.

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Earth for All (2022) is more than a book – it’s a survival guide. After centuries of industrialization, population growth, and rising inequality, our planet is now at a tipping point. We are already learning to live with pandemics, war, wildfires, and more. This guide offers timely, practical solutions for the urgent problems facing humankind.

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The Earth4All collective brings together leading economists, scientists, and ecological advocates to secure a flourishing future for humanity. In Earth for All, authors Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jørgen Randers, Johan Rockström, and Per Espen Stoknes challenge us to rethink our relationship with capitalism and industry, with an objective of securing the sweeping systemic change necessary to save the planet.

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Our Wild Calling (2020) examines how humans and other animals can enjoy mutually beneficial relationships. It explores stories and philosophy from the ecological movement, and outlines how we can move toward a more hopeful future for all Earthlings.

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Richard Louv is an author and journalist, whose interests center around connecting families and communities to nature. He is also the cofounder of the nonprofit organization Children & Nature Network. Louv’s work has appeared in The New York Times, as well as other publications, and in 2008 he was awarded the Audubon Medal.

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The Secret World of Weather (2021) teaches you how to speak the forgotten language of local climates. Clouds, winds, plants, and other features of our environment all give us clues about the weather as we actually experience it versus what we’ve heard on the daily forecast. With just a little practice, you’ll find it easy to tune into their secret messages and start making your own weather forecasts.

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Tristan Gooley is a nature writer, explorer, and navigator who lives in Sussex in the UK. He’s led nature expeditions on all five continents and is one of only a few people to sail across the Atlantic solo. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Institute of Navigation. His other books include The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs and How to Read Water.

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Finding the Mother Tree (2021) is a vivid blend of science and memoir that describes the breathtaking personal and professional journey of renowned ecologist Suzanne Simard. It unearths the strange and surprising secrets buried deep in the forests of British Columbia –⁠ and, in the process, forever alters our understanding of the natural world.

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Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist and professor at the University of British Columbia. She has made major contributions to research on the cooperative nature of forest ecosystems and the existence of “mother,” or hub, trees. Her discoveries and life story have served as the inspiration for numerous works of fiction, including Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Overstory, and James Cameron’s award-winning film Avatar.

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Grand Transitions (2020) offers a sweeping overview of global transitions, from population growth to environmental changes. It examines the ways that we’ve shaped the world, for better or worse, and looks at the challenges facing humanity in the decades to come.

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Vaclav Smil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba, Canada. His interdisciplinary research encompasses many fields. He was once named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers. Smil is the author of more than 40 books.

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The Emerald Planet (2007) looks at the central role plants have played in shaping the planet and its environment. New research makes use of plants, both fossilized and living, to explain how the planet got where it is, and where it might go in the future. The Emerald Planet inspired a three-part BBC series called How to Grow a Planet.

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David Beerling is the Sorby Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation at the University of Sheffield, where he researches plant biology and global change. He’s also Editor in Chief of the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. Beerling has written two monographs and many scientific papers; his second book, Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet, was published in 2019.

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Forest Bathing (2018) is a guide to the Japanese practice of forest bathing. It explores the beliefs, culture, and traditions behind forest bathing, as well as various studies on its health benefits. It also lays out easy-to-follow steps for practicing forest bathing in any environment.

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Dr. Qing Li is an immunologist and a leading expert on forest medicine. He’s a founding member of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine, and the vice president and secretary general of the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine. Dr. Li teaches at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, Japan, and has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University.

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Elizabeth Kolbert is a multi-award-winning journalist and long-time staff writer for the New Yorker. Her writing focuses primarily on environmental issues, and she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for her book The Sixth Extinction.

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Richard Rhodes is the author of 26 books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making Of The Atomic Bomb. He has been awarded grants for research and writing from, among others, the MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation and has been featured on television programs, such as Frontline and American Experience.

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Arvind Gupta is the founder of the venture capital firm IndieBio, which he left in 2020. He studied genetic engineering and is a former BASE jumper. Po Bronson is IndieBio’s managing director and an award-winning science journalist whose books include What Should I Do With My Life?

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The Eight Master Lessons of Nature (2019) is a reflective treatise on what nature can teach us about living well. Carefully observing many forms of life, from forest mushrooms to mighty elephants, the guide reveals valuable lessons they may hold for us. In doing so, it invites us to look again at the wild world around us with a renewed sense of awe and wonder.

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Gary Ferguson is an award-winning author, naturalist, and public speaker specializing in the intersection of ecology and psychology. He’s authored more than 25 books including The Carry Home, Shouting at the Sky, and Hawks Rest, which was the first ever to be named Book of the Year by both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Associations.

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Merlin Sheldrake is a fungal biologist with a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge University. His research focuses primarily on fungal biology and the history of Amazonian ethnobotany. He is also a musician, brewer, and fermenter.

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The Book of Eels (2020) takes the reader on a zoological odyssey spanning thousands of years. It’s the story of the eel – a creature that has enthralled humanity with its strange and complex life cycle. Countless scientists have dedicated their careers to the enigma of this fish, which has evolved to undergo several metamorphoses over the course of its life and to endure a grueling migration across the Atlantic to breed. But the eel has proven to be an elusive creature, and there are still many secrets about its life that it seems intent on keeping to itself.

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Patrik Svensson grew up near a stream in Sweden, where his father taught him to fish for eel. He’s now an arts and culture journalist for the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan. Patrik lives with his family in Malmö, a city in the southwest of the country.

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The Bird Way (2020) is a study of birds that harnesses both the expertise of the scientist and the joy of the birdwatcher. A celebration of the mind-boggling diversity of birds and their behavior, it explores the globe in pursuit of the inner workings of the avian mind. From Costa Rica’s teeming rainforests to the magpie-menaced suburbs of Australian cities, it explores how birds as different as ant followers, parrots, raptors, and ravens play, parent, and hunt.

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The Fate of Food (2019) looks at a rapidly changing world and the question of how we’ll feed our ever-growing population. Is it possible to produce a clean, climate-resilient food supply that’s adequate to meet our needs? The Fate of Food examines the technological and sociological demands of feeding the world.

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Amanda Little is an award-winning environmental journalist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, and Vanity Fair, among many others. She is a professor of investigative journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University and the author of Power Trip: The Story of America’s Love Affair with Energy.

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The Human Swarm (2019) is a groundbreaking exploration of human society, from its origins to the huge civilizations found on the planet today. Drawing on psychology, anthropology and biology, it shows how humans have managed to create and maintain societies of a size and complexity unrivaled in the animal kingdom.

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Mark W. Moffett is a scientist and real-life adventurer who was once called the Indiana Jones of entomology – the study of insects. A research associate in the Entomology Department at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of Natural History, he has shared his passionate interest in bugs, animals and human behavior on shows like The Colbert Report and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

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