 | The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen
Buy new: $15.84 / Used from: $5.78 This is the best book ever. Period. No qualifiers such as "science" or "non-fiction" are needed in that sentence. It is a page turner and far more educational than all but a few of my college biology classes were. You don't have to like science to love this book. Buy a few copies and plan on giving them to people you love.
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 | A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.50 Wonderful book. My second favorite of all time. Inspiring and beautifully written. Sorry, no more personal comments after this, I promise.
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 | Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas by Carl Safina
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.60 Also by the same author "Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival"
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 | The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
Buy used from: $7.13 "Biophilia", "Concilience: The Unity of Knowledge", and "Naturalist" by the same author were also on the list. Pretty much anything by E.O. Wilson...
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 | The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $5.00 Also on the list, "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by the same author.
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 | A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold
Buy new: $32.40 / Used from: $17.50 |
 | The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $14.99 |
 | Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.99 |
 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.99 |
 | Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $4.89 Also "The Monkey Wrench Gang" a fun fiction book by the same author.
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 | The Control of Nature by John McPhee
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.77 Also by same author: "Encounters with the Archdruid"
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 | Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.87 |
 | Win-Win Ecology: How The Earth's Species Can Survive In The Midst of Human Enterprise by Michael L. Rosenzweig
Buy new: $45.00 / Used from: $2.22 |
 | Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons by Simon Levin
Buy new: $18.50 / Used from: $3.99 |
 | Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors by Dr. Stephen J. O'Brien
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $8.00 |
 | Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes by Bill Green
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.59 |
 | Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop them All by Brian Czech
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $1.19 |
 | One River by Wade Davis
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.88 |
 | The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $4.00 |
 | A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines: The Growing Threat Of Species Invasions (Scope Series - Scientific Committee on Pro) by Yvonne Baskin
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $2.16 |
 | Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Buy used from: $3.08 |
 | Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie by Richard Manning
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $5.63 |
 | Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.70 Same author as good as Song of the Dodo. In my personal opinion, not quite as good, but still one the best non-fiction books I have ever read.
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 | 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.09 |
 | Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $9.78 / Used from: $2.94 |
 | Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.00 |
 | Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago by Douglas H. Erwin
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $10.25 |
 | Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.99 |
 | The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Buy used from: $4.58 |
 | King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon by David Montgomery
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $1.79 |
 | Salmon Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis by James A. Lichatowich
Buy new: $24.09 / Used from: $7.99 |
 | Darwin's Dreampond: Drama on Lake Victoria by Tijs Goldschmidt
Buy new: $22.62 / Used from: $3.70 |
 | Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion by Alan Burdick
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.96 |
 | Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich
Buy used from: $6.45 Also by the same author: "The Trees in My Forest"
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 | Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.00 |
 | The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.90 |
 | E=mc2: A Biography of the Worlds Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $6.75 |
 | Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years by Bruce Sterling
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.75 |
 | The New Economy of Nature: The Quest To Make Conservation Profitable by Gretchen Daily
Buy new: $13.44 / Used from: $6.50 |
 | Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $4.99 |
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