Prophets and Moguls, Rangers and Rogues, Bison and Bears: 100 Years of the National Park Service
10 best books like Prophets and Moguls, Rangers and Rogues, Bison and Bears: 100 Years of the National Park Service (Heather Hansen): The Trump Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living Through What You Hoped Would Never Happen, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space, The Call of the Wild/White Fang/To Build a Fire, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement, A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia, Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
| Author | Gene Stone |
| ISBN | 0062686488 |
Don’t despair. Don’t retreat. Fight back.
The stunning election of Donald J. Trump rocked an already divided America and left scores of citizens, including the nearly sixty-five million voters who supported Hillary Clinton, feeling bereft and powerless. Now, Gene Stone, author...
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...
A funny, fact-driven, and comprehensive illustrated field guide to feminist living from the inside out by the former hosts of the hugely popular podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You and the forthcoming podcast Unladylike.
Combining the feminist issues slant of Lean In and Bad Feminist with the...
The Call of the Wild—Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call...
| Author | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| ISBN | 0544003438 |
The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2013.
This collection of twenty-seven articles was edited by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a scientist and author of the runaway bestseller “The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”. He did a great job of choosing which ones to include here.
There...
| Author | Eduardo Kohn |
| ISBN | 0520276116 |
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of...
| Author | Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee |
Showing the deep connection between our present ecological crisis and our lack of awareness of the sacred nature of creation, this series of essays from spiritual and environmental leaders around the world shows how humanity can transform its relationship with the Earth. Combining the thoughts...
| Author | Sarah Erdreich |
| ISBN | 1609804589 |
Strong support among women was key to Obama’s reelection. At the start of his second term, it is time for Barack Obama, forty years after Roe v. Wade, to finally help lead us to demystify abortion. One-third of all American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, and most of those women...
| Author | Blaine Harden |
| ISBN | 0393316904 |
After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river.
Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington, could not have existed without...
| Author | Nicholas Johnson |
| ISBN | 0922915997 |
When Johnson went to work for the U.S. Antarctic Program (devoted to scientific research and education in support of the national interest in the Antarctic), he figured he'd find adventure, beauty, penguins and lofty-minded scientists. Instead, he found boredom, alcohol and bureaucracy. As a dishwasher...
A classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who—informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders’ life on the vast unbroken prairie—would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize–winner...
| Author | C. Alan Joyce |
| ISBN | 1606520342 |
Bibliophiles, grab your glasses! Here is a compendium of interesting--and often scandalous--facts and quips about the literary world. Featuring authors and tomes of yesteryear and yesterday, from Tolkien's Middle- earth to Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, you'll sections such as:
You Don't...
Need to escape the modern world? Step back into Jane Austen's world with Behind Jane Austen's Door. Join the author, Jennifer Forest, as she takes you on an easy to read, non-academic tour of a Regency house.
Jane Austen did not place her stories in palaces or on the battlefields, but in that one...
| Author | Margret Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1566894077 |
"The Little Free Library is a terrific example of placing books—poetry included—within reach of people in the course of their everyday lives. Free is always a good thing, and the project has a nice give-and-take feel to it. Here's hoping we bump into literature when we turn the next corner—before...
| Author | Adrian Bejan |
| ISBN | 0385534612 |
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.
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From the mid-19th century, many of the most celebrated moments and personalities in modern history – from Gettysburg to Hiroshima, and from Lincoln to Churchill – have been captured for posterity by the camera lens. Marina Amaral uses digital techniques, underpinned by painstaking research,...
| Author | Thomas Eaton |
| ISBN | 0740755617 |
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Did you know Pope John VIII was actually a woman? Or that the U.S. Government smashed a bacteria-laden lightbulb in a New York subway station in 1966 to see how long it would take to travel throughout the entire system? You will after reading the...
| Author | David James Duncan |
| ISBN | 0977717011 |
A national bestseller and winner of the PNBA Book Award and Pushcart Prize, God Laughs & Plays is David James Duncan s (The River Why, The Brothers K) profound, original, and exhilarating tour de force.
In this multiple award-winning and bestselling diagnosis of the contemporary American...
| Author | David Baron |
| ISBN | 1631490168 |
In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another—an adventuresome female astronomer—fought to prove that science was...
| Author | Russ Kick |
| ISBN | 1938875087 |
This book sheds light on those things that people in power--government, religious leaders, corporations, the rich and well connected--would just as soon wish you didn't know. To them secrets are power. And they'll do whatever it takes to keep them that way -- suppressing the truth and covering up facts...
| Author | Cary Griffith |
| ISBN | 0873515897 |
In the wilderness, one false step can make the difference between a delightful respite and a brush with death. On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leading a trip deep into Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park. He stepped into a gap among cedar trees to...
| Author | Jeanne Marie Laskas |
| ISBN | 0399159002 |
Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.”
Hidden America intends to fix that. Like...
| Author | Rick Curtis |
| ISBN | 1400053099 |
When it was first published in 1998, The Backpacker's Field Manual set the standard for comprehensive backpacking books. Now exhaustively updated to offer a more complete view of backpacking today, it covers the latest developments in gear—such as Global Positioning Systems and ultralight hiking...
| Author | Bill Hayes |
| ISBN | 0345456890 |
The classic medical text known as Gray’s Anatomy is one of the most famous books ever written. Now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication, acclaimed science writer and master of narrative nonfiction Bill Hayes has written the fascinating, never-before-told true story of how this seminal...
| Author | Dipesh Chakrabarty |
| ISBN | 0691130019 |
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues,...
