Biophilia
10 best books like Biophilia (Edward O. Wilson): Walden & Civil Disobedience, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Rising from the Plains, A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love, Muddling through in Madagascar, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology, Field Notes on Science & Nature, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
Walden & Civil Disobedience
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN | 0451529456 |
A naturalist, a transcendentalist or an individualist?
Thoreau’s principles could be labelled with the previous statutory concepts and yet none of them would suffice to provide a full description of him. He struck me as a man who didn’t want to be restricted by category; he chose experience...
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195007778 |
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.
Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0061129763 |
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension...
| Author | John McPhee |
| ISBN | 0374520658 |
This is about high-country geology and a Rocky Mountain regional geologist. I raise that semaphore here at the start so no one will feel misled by an opening passage in which a slim young woman who is not in any sense a geologist steps down from a train in Rawlins, Wyoming, in order to go north by stagecoach...
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
| ISBN | 0618485392 |
The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins.
Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits...
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
| ISBN | 0879513608 |
I enjoy Dervla Murphy’s travel books. They are not guides and not books that might inspire you to travel. Usually she travels by bicycle, but this was not possible in Madagascar. Instead, she travels by local minibus, and much of the book describes the incredibly cramped conditions and terrible...
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671203231 |
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060742151 |
From Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, comes the remarkable story of his father's life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature have shaped his own life. Although Bernd Heinrich's father, Gerd, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd tried to distance...
| Author | Michael R. Canfield |
| ISBN | 0674057570 |
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
What...
| Author | Adrian Forsyth |
| ISBN | 0684187108 |
This book is written by two biologists who spent a lot of time in the tropical rain forests of central and south America. Each chapter in the book is dedicated to a different subject in the forests, and can be read independently.
Anyone who is curious about the nature world , would be thrilled by...
| Author | John C. Kricher |
| ISBN | 0691009740 |
A Neotropical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. It is the most comprehensive one-volume guide to the Neotropics available...
