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This New York Times bestseller is a “sweet, quirky memoir” (USA TODAY) about a biologist and the baby barn owl that changed her life.On Valentine’s Day 1985, biologist Stacey O’Brien adopted Wesley, a baby barn owl with an injured wing who could not have survived in...
An award-winning zookeeper, author, and bear expert shares the insights she has gleaned from a career spent working with the majestic animals.Few people have known bears as intimately as Else Poulsen has. This remarkable book reveals the many insights about bears and...
"The art of the classic field guide is not lost but alive and well . . . for raptor enthusiasts who take their birds of prey seriously." —Phil Slade, Another Bird BlogBirds of Prey of the West and its companion volume, Birds of Prey of the East, are the most...
"An entertaining discussion" of the role memory plays in our lives as we age, including an interview with Oliver Sacks (Times Higher Education Supplement). When we can't call to mind the name of someone we've known for years, or walk into a room and forget what we...
How pathbreaking research into the brain's connections to the immune system offers new hope for treating diseases, injuries, and the effects of aging. PROSE Awards Honorable Mention, Biomedicine & Neuroscience categoryIn the past, the brain was considered an...
An enlightening look at animal behavior and the cycle of life and death, from "one of the finest naturalists of our time" (Edward O. Wilson). When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in...
"Ambitious, absorbing… Brannen is an effusive, maximalist writer, a mind vividly alive on the page… and his arguments, like his writing, are hugely compelling."— The New York Times Book Review How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds...
A “timely, informative, and fascinating” study of 8 inventions—and how they shaped our world—with “totally compelling” insights on little-known inventors throughout history (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction ) In The Alchemy of...
A neuroscientist explores the biological bases of schizophrenia and tells the heartbreaking story of his own brother's battle with the disease. When bright lives are derailed by schizophrenia, bewildered and anxious families struggle to help, and to cope, even as...
Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the...