The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest

8 best books like The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest (Jack Nisbet): The Fledgling, Rocannon's World, Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds, Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, Why Religion?: A Personal Story, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer, Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten

The Fledgling

Author	Jane Langton
ISBN	0590434519

It all started when Georgie, hardly more than a wisp of thistledown, discovered she could jump down twelve steps in two big graceful bounds. Next, to her great delight, she learned that jumping from the porch and floating as high as the rooftop was possible too. So when the mysterious Canada goose came...

Rocannon's World

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	0441732968

A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars. Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he sees his friends murdered and his spaceship destroyed. Marooned...

Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds

Author	Chris Chester
ISBN	1400033853

“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” --William Shakespeare, Hamlet

B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life of Chris Chester. The encounter was providential for both of them.
B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-cap fetch...

Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution

Author

Jennifer Block

An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the U.S.

One of Elle's "30 Best Books to Read This Summer"

American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block...

The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

Author

Ben Shapiro

America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate. In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which...

Why Religion?: A Personal Story

Author	Elaine Pagels
ISBN	0062368559

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...

Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

Author	Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN	1478961260

Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.

A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare...

Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten

Author

Anne 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....