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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

10 best books like Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees (Thor Hanson): Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, Underland, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers, In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization, Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
AuthorRob Dunn
ISBN1541645766
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...
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
AuthorFrans de Waal
ISBN0393635066
New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...
Underland
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0393242145
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0385539304
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
AuthorBen 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...
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
AuthorDanna Staaf
ISBN1611689236
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth’s first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act...
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
AuthorAdam Nicolson
ISBN1250134188
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."

A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall,...
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
AuthorLauren E. Oakes
The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world

Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the...
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
AuthorVince Beiser
ISBN0399576428
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.

After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
AuthorLisa Margonelli
ISBN0374282072
This book is about termites the way the Bible is about men with beards. Yes, it takes you into the mounds and inside the bugs, but also deep into the strange labs and pulsing, eclectic minds of the roboticists, geneticists, physicists, and ecologists who try to figure them out. Perhaps best of all, it takes...
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood
AuthorLucy Cooke
ISBN0857524119
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,...
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
AuthorRuth Kassinger
ISBN0544432932
“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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Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten
AuthorAnne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Bli med inn i insektenes forunderlige verden! For hvert menneske som lever på jorden, finnes det 200 millioner insekter. Insektene er overalt - i skogen og i enga, i bekken og i parken. De lever i seks tusen meters høyde, i de dypeste grotter, i døpefonter, inne i datamaskiner og i hvalrossens nesebor....
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