Nature
Butterflies: Reflections, Tales, and Verse
Hardback
This volume gathers the most alluring stories, recollections, contemplations and poems on butterflies by Herman Hesse.
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Paperback
“One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
Hardback
A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity’s relationship with the world
Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
Paperback
A lively exploration of animal behaviour in all its glorious complexity, whether in tiny wasps, lumbering elephants or ourselves
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Hardback
How a mysterious, super-powerful—yet long-neglected—microbe rules our world and can rescue our health in the age of antibiotic resistance.