Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s shimmering essay collection about fantastic creatures and plants, "World of Wonders", is shot through with memories of her peripatetic life and observations about race, motherhood, and environmental issues. Fumi... Read More

Frank Mortimer’s "Bee People" is an entertaining introduction to the world of beekeeping, drawn from Mortimer’s extensive experience raising bees in suburban New Jersey. The book’s topics will appeal to novices, experts, and the... Read More

"Trees of Papua New Guinea" is a practical, in-depth guide to identifying that nation’s many species and varieties of trees. Barry J. Conn and Kipiro Q. Damas’s "Trees of Papua New Guinea" documents tree species from across the... Read More

Cracking Nature’s Code is a call to action that connects science with philosophy for the greater global good. Microbiologist JB Head’s scientific treatise Cracking Nature’s Code suggests relations between chaos and order to better... Read More

In "Spirits of the Coast", the companion book to the Royal British Columbia Museum’s 2020 feature exhibition Orcas: Our Shared Future, orca experts, artists, storytellers, and Indigenous wisdom keepers issue an invitation to... Read More

Naturalist Ken Keffer’s "Earth Almanac" is a delightful, fact-rich immersion into the seasonal wonders of the natural world. Beginning with the winter solstice, the book gives budding naturalists a good overview of what goes on... Read More

Kathryn Aalto’s "Writing Wild" celebrates the women writers who bring insight, grace, and power to nature writing, their perspectives urgent and necessary. Human survival is linked to the natural world, and Aalto asserts that... Read More

"Beauty and the Beast" is the story of an imperiled glory. Part of an inspiring documentary art project created by conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter, it highlights California’s famed wildflower “superblooms”... Read More