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Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life

10 best books like Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life (David W. Wolfe): The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs, Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World, Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions, Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds, The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes, The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival

The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
AuthorJon R. Luoma
Luoma writes about what “long-term, large-scale, interdisciplinary ecological studies” can tell us about forests. He focuses on the teams that have worked at the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon. Fascinating information on how nutrients are extracted and cycle through the plants, fungi,...
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
AuthorLynn Margulis
ISBN0465072720
Although Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern successors have shown very convincingly how inherited...
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
AuthorAmy Stewart
ISBN1565124685
In The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart takes us on a journey through the underground world and introduces us to one of its most amazing denizens. The earthworm may be small, spineless, and blind, but its impact on the ecosystem is profound. It ploughs the soil, fights plant diseases, cleans up pollution, and...
Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
AuthorSue Hubbell
ISBN0679400621
Hubbell channels Rachel Carson in this wonderful wandering through the bug world. She's environmentally conscious & given to almost poetic maundering about them, from the prettiest to the nastiest. Some passages would be almost pornographic out of context, but it's all good & very interesting....
Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
AuthorM.R. O'Connor
**A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 **
**A Christian Science Monitor Top Ten Book of September**

In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M. R. O'Connor explores...
Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World
AuthorRichard Conniff
ISBN0805055312
Natural history writer Richard Conniff's journalistic assignments have brought him in contact with invertebrates for more than 20 years--tarantulas of the upper Amazon, dragonflies in Arizona, squid in Florida, and flies on the rim of his beer glass. Here Conniff details his often hilarious encounters...
Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
AuthorMark W. Moffett
ISBN0520261992
Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere,...
Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds
AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0802136656
Flannery travels to the unexplored regions of New Guinea in search of species that science has yet to discover or classify. He finds many -- from a community of giant cave bats that were supposedly extinct to the elusive black-and-white tree-kangaroo -- and along the way has a wealth of unforgettable...
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0865476578
“You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good as it gets.” —Chicago Tribune

In legend, cranes often figure as harbingers of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. And in nature, they are an “umbrella...
The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival
AuthorStephen R. Palumbi
ISBN1597264350
Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural paradise, but became the poster child for industrial...
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
AuthorAlan Burdick
ISBN0374219737
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing...
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
AuthorWilliam F. Ruddiman
ISBN0691121648
The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? William Ruddiman's provocative new book argues that humans have actually been...
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
AuthorWilliam Bryant Logan
"You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about." So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and magic to "that stuff that won't come off your collar."


John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through this thought-provoking work,...
Attracting Native Pollinators; Protecting North America's Bees and Butterflies
AuthorThe Xerces Society
ISBN1603426957
The recent decline of the European honey bee and other pollinators in North America poses a serious challenge to our food supply and ecological health. About 75 percent of all flowering plants rely on pollinators in order to set seed or fruit, and from these plants comes one-third of the planet's food.

Attracting...
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
AuthorJeffrey A. Lockwood
ISBN0465041671
In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust “the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains.” Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the American continent, turning noon into dusk, devastating...
Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea
AuthorRichard Ellis
ISBN0142001562
Life on earth began in the sea, and in this tour de force of natural history, authority on marine biology and illustrator Richard Ellis chronicles more than three billion years of aquatic history. From the first microbes and jawless fishes that evolved into the myriad species we know today-sharks,...
Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds
AuthorGeorge W. Hudler
ISBN0691070164
Mushrooms magically spew forth from the earth in the hours that follow a summer rain. Fuzzy brown molds mischievously turn forgotten peaches to slime in the kitchen fruit bowl. And in thousands of other ways, members of the kingdom Fungi do their part to make life on Earth the miracle that it is. In this...
Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country
AuthorCourtney White
ISBN1603585451
This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability?

The quick answers are: Build topsoil....
Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
AuthorJeff Lowenfels
ISBN1604693142
​“Gets deep into the weeds, so to speak, of the microscopic architecture of plants and the biochemical processes at play.” —Washington Post

Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed, but many of us know little about the nature of the science involved. In Teaming with Nutrients,...
Tree: A Life Story
AuthorDavid Suzuki
"Only God can make a tree," wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a "biography" of this extraordinary—and extraordinarily important—organism. A story that spans a millennium and includes...
What Is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology
AuthorAddy Pross
ISBN0199641013
Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrodinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists ever since.

Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and apparently...
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
AuthorRichard Fortey
ISBN0307263614
From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms...
Understanding Earth
AuthorJohn P. Grotzinger
ISBN0716766825
More than any other introductory physical geology textbook, Understanding Earth is designed to bring the worldview of the working geologist to an audience not only new to this specific field, but in many cases to science in general. Students aren't merely presented with concepts and processes--they...
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