Fragile Species
5 best books like Fragile Species (Lewis Thomas): The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, The Debba
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
| Author | Michael Pollan |
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects...
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
| Author | Daniel Immerwahr |
| ISBN | 0374172145 |
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
| Author | Peter Godfrey-Smith |
| ISBN | 0374227764 |
Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell...
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
| Author | David Deutsch |
| ISBN | 0670022756 |
As I read through Deutsch's many provocative assertions, I often reacted with instinctive scorn and disbelief. But with only a few exceptions, I found myself within a few pages not only persuaded...
The Debba
| Author | Avner Mandelman |
| ISBN | 1590513703 |
In Middle East lore the Debba is a mythical Arab hyena that can turn into a man who lures Jewish children away from their families to teach them the language of the beasts. To the Arabs he is a heroic national symbol; to the Jews he is...