28 books
Peter Wohlleben
Wohlleben’s follow-up argument is that forests are better at adapting than we credit, and that most of what we call forest management gets in the way. Trees pass on learned drought responses to their offspring, which is inheritance without genetics.…
Tom Zoellner
Zoellner walked eight hundred miles across Arizona, roughly the diagonal, and used the walk to work through the state he grew up in. Chapters alternate between the trail — heat, water, private land, dogs, the people who pick up a…
D.W. Pasulka
Pasulka’s follow-up to American Cosmic, and she opens the aperture wide. Nonhuman intelligence here doesn’t just mean whatever’s flying around — it covers angels, demons, animals, AI, the things people meet in dreams, and the possibility that some of it…
Jared D. Margulies
There’s a global black market in rare cacti and succulents, and Margulies spent years inside it — with collectors, growers, smugglers, customs officers, and conservation scientists across Europe, Asia, Mexico, and South Africa. Plants poached out of the ground in…
Tristan Gooley
Every tree is a record of what happened to it. Gooley teaches you to read it: Why branches on the south side grow at a different angle, how a tree leans away from prevailing wind and thickens on the windward…
Dan Flores
Sixty-six million years of American animals in one book. Flores starts after the asteroid and works forward — the strange menagerie that evolved here, then the arrival of humans and the extinction of mammoths, horses, camels, lions, and the giant…
Oliver Burkeman
Do the math and a normal lifespan comes out to about four thousand weeks. That’s it. That’s the whole allotment. Burkeman spent years writing a productivity column, running every system going, and finally decided the entire project is a trap.…
Peter Attia
Attia’s frame is that medicine is good at trauma and infection and bad at the four things that actually kill most people: heart disease, cancer, neurodegeneration, and metabolic dysfunction. All four build for decades before anybody screens for them, and…
Martin Hogue
Hogue teaches landscape architecture and looks at camping the way an architect looks at a building — as a designed system nobody notices. The campsite with its numbered post, fire ring, picnic table, and parking spur is an invention with…
Nick Hayes
The follow-up to The Book of Trespass, and it moves from manifesto to action plan. Hayes and a dozen contributors argue that the English are locked out of ninety-odd percent of their own country, and that the answer isn’t just…
