The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
9 best books like The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health (David R. Montgomery): I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, The Book of Delights, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, The Epigenetics Revolution, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior, Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture, An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
| Author | Ed Yong |
| ISBN | 0062368591 |
Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin—a “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a marvelous,...
| Author | Ross Gay |
| ISBN | 1616207922 |
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...
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...
The Epigenetics Revolution
At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still...
| Author | Madeline Drexler |
| ISBN | 0142002615 |
As timely as it is urgent, this well-researched book from veteran science journalist Madeline Drexler delivers a compelling report on today's most ominous infectious disease threats. She focuses on a different danger in each chapter-from the looming risk of lethal influenza to in-depth information...
| 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...
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
| Author | Gabe Brown |
| ISBN | 1603587632 |
Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm....
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 0316989797 |
How does one actually become a compassionate person? What are the mechanisms by which a selfish heart is transformed into a generous heart? The Dalai Lama's teachings on this essential subject, drawn from talks he delivered during his epochal visit to America in 1999, form the basis of this universally...
People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue
Christians who are confused by the homosexuality debate raging in the US are looking for resources that are based solidly on a deep study of what Scripture says about the issue. In People to Be Loved, Preston Sprinkle challenges those on all sides of the debate to consider what the Bible says and how we...
