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The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior

10 best books like The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior (Stefano Mancuso): Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, Martians, Go Home, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine, Energy: A Human History, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
AuthorRobin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN0870714996
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...
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
AuthorRob Dunn
ISBN1541645766
A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements

Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the...
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
AuthorBen Goldfarb
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...
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
AuthorChristina Thompson
ISBN0062060872
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

For more than...
Martians, Go Home
AuthorFredric Brown
ISBN0345298535
THEY WERE GREEN
THEY WERE LITTLE
THEY WERE
BALD AS BILLIARD BALLS
AND THEY WERE
EVERYWHERE

Luke Devereaux was a science-fiction writer, holed up in a desert shack waiting for inspiration. He was the first man to see a Martian...but he wasn't the last!

It was estimated...
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
AuthorThomas Hager
ISBN1419734407
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...
Energy: A Human History
AuthorRichard Rhodes
ISBN1501105353
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.

People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world...
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...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN1476776628
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
AuthorVince Beiser
ISBN0399576428
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.

After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer...
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
AuthorPaul Stamets
ISBN1580085792
Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.
 
The basic science goes like this:...
Defending the Undefendable
AuthorWalter Block
ISBN0930073053
In the first couple of sections, Sexual & Medical, he presents some good arguments in favor of less government interference & that's not surprising, given his Libertarian stance that he warns about in the introduction. His arguments are somewhat thin, but not too bad.

I found that...
Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten
AuthorAnne 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....
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