Nature and Other Essays

7 best books like Nature and Other Essays (Ralph Waldo Emerson): Walden, Walking, Orientalism, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Walden

Author	Henry David Thoreau
ISBN	0691096120

Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer...

Walking

Author	Henry David Thoreau
ISBN	1596058811

The philosophies of Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)—hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profound thinker on humanity's happiness—have greatly influenced the American character, and his writings on human nature, materialism, and the natural world continue to be of profound import...

Orientalism

Author

Edward W. Said

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0316409138

A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.

In his international...

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Author	Robert M. Sapolsky
ISBN	1594205078

Why do we do the things we do?
More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful...

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0140437487

Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus....

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Author

James Lovelock

James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an...