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In Origin Story, medical historian Howard Markel recounts the two-year period (1858 to 1860) of Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species through its spectacular success and controversy. Simultaneously, Markel delves into the mysterious health symptoms Darwin developed, combing the literature to emerge with a cogent diagnosis of a case that has long fascinated medical historians.

FINALIST FOR THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Eye-opening essays about searching for peace in the cacophony of birds and discovering a world of meaning in small moments—from award-winning actor Lili Taylor. “By turns introspective, inquisitive, and funny, the book is a love...

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. Until now, the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here.

In this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “analyzes how Dolly Parton’s songs—and success—have embodied feminism for working-class women” (People). Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories...

Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living on a shoestring in a lion conservation camp, Kate home-schools her family while they also learn at firsthand about the individual lives of wild lions. Their deep attachment to these magnificent animals is palpable. The setting is exotic, but it is also precarious. 

At stake in 1896 was the new idea that some landscapes should be collectively, permanently owned by a democratic government. Although many people today think of public lands as an American birthright, their very existence was then in doubt and dependent on a merger of the talents of these two men. Natural Rivals examines a time of environmental threat and political dysfunction not unlike our own and reveals the complex dynamic that gave birth to America’s rich public lands legacy. 

Brought to you by Penguin. The ice sheets and glaciers that currently cover one-tenth of the planet's land surface are today in grave peril. Locked up within them is a vast proportion of Earth's freshwater - but the ice is fast melting as our climate warms at an accelerating rate. High up in the...

Este libro narra algunos de los viajes más notables en la vida de este joven europeo, cuyo incansable interés por la ciencia lo llevó a conocer lugares a donde inclusive ahora, muy pocos viajeros se atreverían a ir. Alexander von Humboldt es considerado el "padre de la Geografía Moderna".

Have you ever leaned in close to a plant, an insect, a tree, and felt it respond? Once, When I Was Tree is a collection of true short stories weaving interspecies communication, nomadic living, and threshold experiences. From a barefoot childhood in the red earth of New Caledonia to the wisdom of the grandmother vine Ayahuasca, each story is a thread, drawn from different times and places in my life. What do trees remember? Why do bees dance? Whom does Coyote mourn when he sings to the moon? Where do we, humans, belong in the weaving of the natural world?

An inspiring true story of one man's journey of finding his purpose as he overcomes overwhelming obstacles to bring clean water to millions of the world's neediest people―inviting us all to discover the amazing way that God has designed each one of us to impact this world in a unique way. The problem was so huge it seemed as though nothing short of a miracle was needed. Initially a career goal for him, bringing clean water to the world became Greg Allgood's passionate life mission, first as part of his job at Procter & Gamble and later in his role as VP of Water at World Vision.

La historia del hombre que llevó la física a sus límites... y a los suyos propios. Una vida de descubrimiento, genialidad y aislamiento. Roger Penrose, uno de los grandes genios que nos ha dado el siglo XX, revolucionó nuestra comprensión del espacio, el tiempo y los agujeros negros. Premio...

From 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildland firefighter whose given name was Anastasia. This is a memoir of that time in their life—of Ana, the struggles she encountered, and the contours of what it meant to be female-bodied in a male-dominated profession. Hotshot is a work of intimacy and authority, nimbly merging a personal journey of reinvention and self-acceptance with expert insight into the textured history of ecological systems and Indigenous land tending.

In the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner are presented with the opportunity to steward a two-hundred-acre conserved farm. Whybrow knows that "belonging more than anything requires participation" and radically intertwines her life with the land. Six months after purchasing Knoll Farm, they unload a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the field and Whybrow becomes a shepherd entering into "nature's constant cycle of life into death into life" and all its unexpected lessons.

"ஸ்டீவ் ஜாப்ஸ், ஸ்டீவ் வாஜ்னியாக்" இவர்களின் இளவயது வெற்றிக்கதையை விறுவிறுப்பாக விவரிக்கும் ஒலிநூல் இது...

பசித்த மானுடத்தின் ஒட்டுமொத்த வரலாற்றையும் 'மாற்றம்' என்ற ஒற்றை சொல்லுக்குள் அடக்கிவிடலாம். அப்படி...

"மார்க் ஜக்கர்பர்க், ஆடம் டி' ஏஞ்செலோ" இவர்களின் இளவயது வெற்றிக்கதையை விறுவிறுப்பாக விவரிக்கும் ஒலிநூல் இது...

When I was 37, I got sick and thought I was going to die. The seventh doctor I saw told me I could farm my body back to health. I had no idea what he meant, but I was desperate, so I went with it. As I followed where it led, I began to see how deeply my health is connected to the health of the soil my food comes from. That realization opened the door to a deeper understanding of how our food is grown and the vital role farming plays in all our lives.

Le 8 mai 1902, la montagne Pelée efface Saint-Pierre en quelques minutes. À partir de ce jour, Michel Météry n'avance pas seul. Ensemble, ils croisent les indices, confrontent les versions, fouillent les archives, reviennent sur les sites, patientent, se trompent parfois, recommencent. Car identifier une épave n'a rien d'évident : un treuil, un doublage de cuivre, une cargaison figée, une cloche espérée — et toute une hypothèse se construit, au fil des immersions.

For fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction.

A luminous, deeply felt collection of essays from Riverhorse Nakadate—angler, musician, conservationist, and lifelong nomad—whose devotion to wild places and the healing power of water pulses through every page. For readers of Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, Mary Oliver, and Jim Harrison, this...