Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them

10 best books like Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them (David MacNeal): Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Terns of Endearment, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet, Snoring Beauty, The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood, Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages, Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Author	Rob Dunn
ISBN	1541645766

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements

Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the...

The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Author	Ted Chiang
ISBN	1596063173

What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, "Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it...

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Author

Ben Goldfarb

Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...

Terns of Endearment

Author	Donna Andrews
ISBN	1250192978

A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Toucan Keep a Secret

Meg's grandfather has been booked to give lectures on a cruise as part of the education/entertainment itinerary, and he's arranged for a passel of family members to join...

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

Author	David Quammen
ISBN	1476776628

Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...

The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet

Author	Anthony J. Martin
ISBN	1681773120

Humans have “gone underground” for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War–era bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on earth. Without burrowing, the planet would be very different today. Many animal lineages alive...

Snoring Beauty

Author

Bruce Hale

Everyone knows the story of Sleeping Beauty: A handsome prince rescues a beautiful princess from a wicked fairy's terrible sleeping spell.

This story is just like the original. Except for the sarcastic frog narrator, the garlic-scented fairy, and--oh yeah--the princess in this book not...

The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood

Author	Lucy Cooke
ISBN	0857524119

Librarian Note: Newer editions of this book have released with a different title: The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife. See ISBN 9780465094646

History is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influential,...

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

Author	Gaston Dorren
ISBN	0802128793

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these...

Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

Author	Ruth Kassinger
ISBN	0544432932

“No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due.” —Elizabeth Kolbert

Say “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist.

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