The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
10 best books like The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss (Claire Nouvian): The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, The Selfish Gene, Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants, The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
| Author | Deborah Blum |
| ISBN | 1594202435 |
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| Author | Isabel Wilkerson |
| ISBN | 0679444327 |
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
From...
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
| ISBN | 0199291152 |
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition—with a new Introduction by the Author
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene....
| Author | Nick Lane |
| ISBN | 0198607830 |
In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. He shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two...
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
| Author | Mark Kurlansky |
| ISBN | 0099268701 |
The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious that gold. This book spans 1,000 years and four continents. From the...
| Author | Carl Zimmer |
| ISBN | 0684856239 |
Everybody Out of the Pond
At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is...
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
| Author | Dan Koeppel |
| ISBN | 1594630380 |
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world's most humble fruit
To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what...
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
| Author | Robert Sullivan |
| ISBN | 1582344779 |
New York Public Library Book for the Teenager
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PSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year
"Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Behold the rat,...
| Author | Trevor Corson |
| ISBN | 0060555599 |
In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about...
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
| Author | Giles Milton |
| ISBN | 0340696761 |
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
| Author | Nicholas D. Kristof |
| ISBN | 0307267148 |
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey...
| Author | William W. Warner |
| ISBN | 0316923354 |
I had long taken the Chesapeake Bay for granted until my grandparents began talking in earnest about selling their boat. On a trip down there this summer, they recommended this book as a way of coming closer to the bay. As the title indicates, Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay...
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
| Author | Paul Greenberg |
| ISBN | 1594202567 |
Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of...
An Edible History of Humanity
| Author | Tom Standage |
| ISBN | 0802715885 |
Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes—caused, enabled,...
| Author | Sean B. Carroll |
| ISBN | 0393327795 |
Dnf'd. Not because it is a bad book, boring or not well-written, but because it turns out that my appetite for evolutionary biology does not extend as far as embryology. I just cannot summon up the interest to concentrate and have to keep rereading and looking (again and again) at the illustrations. Maybe...
| Author | Wendy Williams |
| ISBN | 0810984652 |
Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants of the sea: the squid. The pages take the reader on a wild narrative ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way addressing some...
