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Nature and Place in Texas

Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens---one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and…

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Jonathan Watts
The Many Lives of James Lovelock

"A revealing window into an extraordinary mind."---Publishers Weekly"Utterly fascinating---a beautifully braided account of the life of a maverick, prophetic genius."---Robert MacFarla…

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Dennis Drabelle
The Power of Scenery

Featured in the Wall Street Journal' s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide 2021 Marfield Prize FinalistWallace Stegner called national parks "the best idea we ever had." But where did the idea origina…

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Energy's History

"Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes…

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Partha Dasgupta
On Natural Capital

From the man that the New York Timescalls "the most important person you've never heard of," renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, aski…

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J R McNeill
Something New Under the Sun

Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialisation and especiall…

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Energy's History

"Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes…

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Joshua Howe, Alexander Lemons
Warbody

Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met Lemon…

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Nathalia Holt
The Beast in the Clouds

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2025 | A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2025"A beautiful and powerful book." ---Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author of The River of …

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Suzanne Morton
Contested Catch

Contested Catch: Lobster and Localism on Canada's Atlantic Coast, 1870--1970 explores the complex development of the lobster fishery in Canada, focusing on the interplay between the ecology of lobsters, l…

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Peter S Soppelsa
Paris After Haussmann

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity fo…

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William T Taylor
Hoof Beats

"Hoof Beats helps readers see the drama even in the grass eating. . . . Taylor has written that too-rare work that is as authoritative as it is legible to the lay audience."--New York TimesJourn…

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Sharon R Krause
Eco-Emancipation

The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploitedHuman domination of nature shapes every aspect of ou…

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Joyce E Chaplin
The Franklin Stove

A Washington PostNoteworthy Book One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of the Year So Far "[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." -The New Yorker "F…

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David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
Ocean

"Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a ... call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this h…

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Mark O'Connell
Year Science Changed Everything

In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months to unlock Earth's greatest mysteries---and changed science forever.The International Geophysi…

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Adam Welz
The End of Eden

A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems--an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth.

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The Pacific Islands

"The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity. Early seafarers, skilled in navigation, discovered diverse habitats and biotas exte…

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David N Livingstone
The Empire of Climate

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat…

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Dolly Jørgensen
Ghosts Behind Glass

"Ghosts behind Glass is a moving exploration of displays of extinct animals in museums around the world. Dolly J²rgensen, a historian of the environment and technology, traveled to over seventy museu…

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