The Birds At My Table: Why we feed wild birds and why it matters by Darryl Jones
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Category: Nature & Science
Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers, scatter the crumbs or seeds, or leave the picnic scraps behind for the birds. Here, Jones takes us on a wild flight through the history of bird feeding as he ponde ...Show more
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Albert Bourla
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Category: Nature & Science
The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer’s CEO Dr. Albert Bourla A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 202 ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski; Francesca Barrie (Editor)
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Category: Nature & Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Nature & Science
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history ...Show more
Walking: One Step at a Time by KAGGE, ERLING
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Category: Nature & Science
A lyrical account of an activity that is essential for our sanity, equilibrium, and well-being, from the author of Silence ("A book to be handled and savored." --Wall Street Journal) Placing one foot in front of the other, embarking on the journey of discovery, and experiencing the joy of exploration--t ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
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Category: Nature & Science | Series: Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrodinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect ...Show more
Models of the Mind - How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain by Grace Lindsay
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Category: Nature & Science
The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate - and how those communications ...Show more
Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski
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Category: Nature & Science
A timely and powerful examination of ocean physics. All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Human history has been dictated by the ocean- the location of cities, access to resources and the gateways to new lands have all revolve ...Show more
Salt: Selected Essays and Stories by Bruce Pascoe
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Category: Nature & Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work. Bruce Pascoe has been described as a 'living national treasure' and his work as 'revelatory'. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected ...Show more
The Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
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Category: Nature & Science
Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago--nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet--humans have succeeded in changing the condit ...Show more
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell
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Category: Nature & Science
The acclaimed author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees.In The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell brings his acute powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. He visits a dozen trees ar ...Show more
Wild Green Wonders - A Life in Nature by Patrick Barkham
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Category: Nature & Science
The collected writings from one of the nation's most celebrated nature writers.