Genre search:Science & Nature

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

by Steve Brusatte
Paperback, 2023
Tags
unread, paleontology, biology, mammals, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
569

What an Owl Knows: The new science of the world's most enigmatic birds

by Jennifer Ackerman
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
birds, bird behavior, natural history, biology, owls, hb, unread
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
598.9/7

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

by Sabrina Imbler
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
biology, marine biology, memoir, lgbtq, hb
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
591.77

An Immense World: How animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us

by Ed Yong
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, biology, animals, senses, animal behavior, nature, hb
Call number
591.5

What if? 2: Additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
xkcd, humor, science, hb, unread
Series
What if? (2)
Call number
500

My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir

by Katherine Johnson
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
memoir, katherine johnson, nasa, math, space program, hb, jane's, unread
Collection
Jane's
Call number
510.92

Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific

by Christina Thompson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
history, world history, polynesia, pacific ocean, polynesian history, tpb, unread
Call number
996

Entangled Life : How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures

by Merlin Sheldrake
Paperback, 2020
Tags
biology, natural history, mushrooms, fungi, unread, tpb
Call number
579.5

Nature Obscura: A city's hidden natural world

by Kelly Brenner
Paperback, 2020
Tags
natural history, ecology, urban biology, urban ecology, seattle, unread, tpb
Call number
577.5/6

The book of eels: Our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world

by Patrik Svensson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
natural history, translation, biology, eels, tpb
Call number
597.43

The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast

by Andrew Blum
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
meteorology, history, weather, hb
Call number
551.63

Birds by the Shore: Observing the natural life of the Atlantic coast

by Jennifer Ackerman
Paperback, 2019
Tags
natural history, ecology, birds, delaware, cape henlopen, tpb
Call number
917.51/704

Slime: How algae created us, plague us, and just might save us

by Ruth Kassinger
Ebook, 2019
Tags
biology, botany, natural history, micro natural history, algae, seaweed, kelp, ebook, unread
Collection
E-books
Call number
579.8

How To: Absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
xkcd, humor, hb
Call number
502

She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity

by Carl Zimmer
Ebook, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, heredity, unread, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
576.5

Buzz : the nature and necessity of bees

by Thor Hanson
Ebook, 2018
Tags
ebook, unread, natural history, insects, bees
Collection
E-books
Call number
595.79/9

The Perfectionists: How precision engineers created the modern world

by Simon Winchester
Ebook, 2018
Tags
history, history of engineering, history of technology, precision, gears!, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620/.009

The Re-origin of Species: A second chance for extinct animals

by Torill Kornfeldt
Paperback, 2018
Tags
biology, genetics, de-extinction, extinction, extinct species, mammoths, passenger pigeons, arc, early reviewer, reviewed
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
591.68

The World in a Grain: The story of sand and how it shaped civilization

by Vince Beiser
Ebook, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, microhistory, sand, unread, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620.1/91

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in ice age America

by Craig Childs
Paperback, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, ice age, travel, archaeology, tpb
Call number
551.7/92

Far from Land: The mysterious lives of seabirds

by Michael Brooke
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
birds, seabirds, albatrosses, petrels, penguins, alcids, shearwaters, frigatebirds, hb
Call number
598.177

Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao: A Site and Field Guide

by Jeffrey V. Wells
Paperback, 2017
Tags
birds, birding, caribbean, bonaire, bird identification, tpb
Call number
598.0972986

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the elements of good cooking

by Samin Nosrat
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
food, cookbook, food science, flavor theory, hb
Call number
641.5

Spineless: The science of jellyfish and the art of growing a backbone

by Juli Berwald
Paperback, 2017
Tags
science, biology, jellyfish, invertebrates, didn't finish, tpb
Call number
593.5/3

Black Hole Blues: And other songs from outer space

by Janna Levin
Paperback, 2017
Tags
nonfiction, physics, astrophysics, popular-level, gravitational waves, gravity, tpb
Call number
539.7/54

Other Minds: the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness

by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
hb, biology, animal intelligence, cephalopods, invertebrates
Call number
612.8

The Genius of Birds

by Jennifer Ackerman
Paperback, 2016
Tags
biology, animal intelligence, birds, bird behavior, tpb
Call number
598

Unseen City: The majesty of pigeons, the discreet charm of snails & other wonders of the urban wilderness

by Nathanael Johnson
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
ecology, biology, urban biology, urban ecology, pigeons, squirrels, weeds, crows, snails, hb
Call number
591.75/6

I Contain Multitudes: The microbes within us and a grander view of life

by Ed Yong
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
biology, bacteria, symbiosis, microbiome, hb
Call number
579/.17

Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home

by Pope Francis
Ebook, 2016
Tags
climate change, environment, religion, catholicism, ebook
Collection
E-books
Series
Papal Magisterial Documents (2015)
Call number
261.8

Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation heroes of the American heartland

by Miriam Horn
Paperback, 2016
Tags
unread, ecology, conservation, tpb, arc
Call number
333.72092/273

The Glass Universe: How the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars

by Dava Sobel
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
women's history, history of astronomy, harvard observatory, annie jump cannon, henrietta levitt, cecilia payne, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
522/.19744409252

Coyote America: A natural and supernatural history

by Dan Flores
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
natural history, micro natural history, coyotes, hb
Call number
599.77/25

Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history, african american history, black women did that, space, space program, history of computing, women's history, wwii, early reviewer, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
510.92/520973

And soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A natural history of moving air

by Bill Streever
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
unread, wind, air, weather, hb
Call number
551.518

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars

by Nathalia Holt
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history, space program, history of technology, women's history, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
629.4072

The Triumph of Seeds: How grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, & pips, conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history

by Thor Hanson
Paperback, 2016
Tags
biology, botany, natural history, seeds, tpb
Call number
581.4/67

Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
xkcd, science, humor, nonfiction, hb
Call number
500

The Soul of an Octopus: A surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness

by Sy Montgomery
Ebook, 2015
Tags
natural history, cephalopods, octopuses, invertebrates, animal intelligence, biology, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
594.56

Places of the Heart: The psychogeography of everyday life

by Colin Ellard
Paperback, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, unread, psychogeography, tpb
Call number
304.2

Spirals in Time: The secret life and curious afterlife of seashells

by Helen Scales
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
seashells, mollusks, natural history, micro natural history, biology, hb
Call number
594.1/477

Ten Million Aliens: A journey through the entire animal kingdom

by Simon Barnes
Paperback, 2015
Tags
biology, animals, taxonomy, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
590

Dinosaurs without Bones: Dinosaur lives revealed by their trace fossils

by Anthony J. Martin
Paperback, 2015
Tags
paleontology, dinosaurs, trace fossils, tpb
Call number
567.9

The Sound Book: The science of the sonic wonders of the world

by Trevor Cox
Paperback, 2015
Tags
science, sound, acoustics, tpb
Call number
534 C8787s

How We Got to Now: Six innovations that made the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of technology, tpb
Call number
338.064

The New Wild: Why invasive species will be nature's salvation

by Fred Pearce
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
early reviewer, ecology, invasive species, needs review, hb
Call number
578.6/2

Rust: The longest war

by Jonathan Waldman
Paperback, 2015
Tags
microhistory, engineering, chemistry, rust, corrosion, tpb
Call number
620.11223

Finding Zero: A mathematician's odyssey to uncover the origins of numbers

by Amir D. Aczel
Paperback, 2015
Tags
numbers, history of numbers, history of mathematics, zero, memoir, early reviewer, arc, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
513.5

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

by Matt Parker
Ebook, 2014
Tags
ebook, math, popular level, recreational math, coverguess mismatch
Collection
E-books
Call number
510

Wildlife of the Caribbean

by Herbert A. Raffaele
Paperback, 2014
Tags
birds, fish, plants, reptiles, field guide, caribbean, tpb
Call number
590.9729
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