The Wolf's Tooth: Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity
7 best books like The Wolf's Tooth: Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity (Cristina Eisenberg): The Book of Delights, Eating Animals, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, The Wright 3, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, The Meaning of Human Existence, The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
| 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...
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0316069906 |
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others,...
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...
| Author | Blue Balliett |
| ISBN | 0439693675 |
From the New York Times bestselling team behind Chasing Vermeer comes another thought-provoking art mystery--featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house!
Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and...
| Author | John Dominic Crossan |
| ISBN | 0060616296 |
"He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine,...
The Meaning of Human Existence
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0871401002 |
How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?"
In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer...
The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
| Author | Brian Swimme |
| ISBN | 0939680149 |
If I could give this more than five stars I would. If Maude from "Harold and Maude" had written a book, I think this might be it. It places the human dead center in the unfolding of creation without falling into anthropocentrism. It is hopeful, charming and exuberant. The book is a dialogue between an older...
