The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
9 best books like The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms (Amy Stewart): Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution, Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior, A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 0870714996 |
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's...
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...
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
| Author | Thomas Hager |
| ISBN | 1419734407 |
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does...
| Author | Danna Staaf |
| ISBN | 1611689236 |
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth’s first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act...
| Author | Auden Schendler |
| ISBN | 1586486373 |
"Green" has finally hit the mainstream. Soccer moms drive Priuses. And the business consultants say it's easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling while the planet burns. Why? Because implementing sustainability is...
| Author | Mary Appelhof |
| ISBN | 1612129471 |
For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement or even under the kitchen...
| Author | Stefano Mancuso |
| ISBN | 1501187856 |
Do plants have intelligence? Do they have memory? Are they better problem solvers than people? Plant Revolution—a fascinating, paradigm-shifting work that upends everything you thought you knew about plants—makes a compelling scientific case that these and other astonishing ideas are all...
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
Publisher's Summary
Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue-twisting names, picking favourites based on ferocity, armour, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All...
Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany
The idea behind this lecture series is daunting: provide an overview of an entire field of study in a series of short lectures. I commend the author for stringing together so much information in one place. However, I found the structure to be a bit lacking and difficult to follow. She'd introduce ideas...
