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1. The Birds of America: The Bien Chromolithographic Edition

   John James Audubon, Joel Oppenheimer

   A never-before-published edition of the rare chromolithographic Audubon prints of American birds.More

2. Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City

   Edward O. Wilson, Alex Harris

   From this historic collaboration between a beloved naturalist and a great American photographer emerges a South we’ve never encountered before.More

3. October, or Autumnal Tints

   Henry D. Thoreau, Robert D. Richardson, Lincoln Perry

   A beautiful new presentation of Thoreau’s classic work, enhanced with an illuminating essay and watercolors.More

4. Air: The Restless Shaper of the World

   William Bryant Logan

   The author of Dirt and Oak brings to life this quickest, most sustaining, most communicative element of the earth.More

5. A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

   Blaine Harden

   Revised and Updated

   "Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." —Washington Post Book WorldMore

6. Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

   Abrahm Lustgarten

   It was Big Oil's nightmare moment, and the dominoes began falling years before the well was drilled.More

7. The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human

   Pat Shipman

   A bold, illuminating new take on the love of animals that drove human evolution.More

8. State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet

   The Worldwatch Institute

   From the Worldwatch Institute, the premier environmental nonprofit, an incisive account of the global food crisis—and how it can be solved.More

9. World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

   Lester R. Brown

   In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.More

10. The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct

    Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism.More

11. Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

    Diane Ackerman

    "It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose."—Washington PostMore

12. Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals

    Richard Conniff

    “Hilariously informative. . . . This book will remind you why you always wanted to be a naturalist.”—OutsideMore

13. Waterbirds

    Theodore Cross

    The book John James Audubon would have made if he had used a camera.More

14. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

    Lester R. Brown

    Substantially Revised

    “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostMore

15. If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth

    Helen Caldicott

    Revised and updated

    “Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor.” —Naomi KleinMore