Boria Sax’s "Enchanted Forests" spurs the imagination with its wide-ranging examination of literature, folklore, and visual art related to forests and their creatures. This engaging, scholarly volume summarizes how, throughout history,... Read More

Botanist Juliet C. Stromberg’s engaging, effervescent memoir covers the ecological restoration of an abandoned four-acre farm in south Phoenix. In a twenty-year effort, Stromberg and her partner Matt created a verdant oasis on what had... Read More

Stephen Robert Miller issues an appeal for realistic, long-term responses to climate change in "Over the Seawall", a book that examines failed attempts to control nature. Often, the expensive, complicated engineering projects that are... Read More

Visually stunning and astonishing in scope, Stephen A. Harris’s "The Beauty of the Flower" is a history of botanical illustration that has all the makings of a classic reference text. Hundreds of gorgeous images are used to trace the... Read More

Martin Stevens’s "Secret Worlds" is a brilliant book on animal perception—the astonishing sensory adaptations that birds, insects, and other creatures evolved for their survival. Humans share five senses with animals; animals have... Read More

"Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms" is a delightful exploration of an often-overlooked aspect of the natural world: the fungi that are essential to the health of the planet. Alison Pouliot contends that fungi are often misunderstood or... Read More

Erik Reece’s memoir "Clear Creek" covers his bucolic second life in the countryside, laying forth a vision of living in and alongside nature. Reece removed himself to the woods in the style of Henry David Thoreau in Walden—while also... Read More

"Raising Resilient Bees" challenges accepted practices in commercial beekeeping, based on decades of experience on an organic farm. Advocates of stewarding bees with minimal disturbance to the hive, Eric and Joy McEwen argue that... Read More