Non-Fiction: Science & Environment
Explore our curated list of non-fiction books on science and the environment. Discover insightful reads on climate change, ecology, and cutting-edge scientific discoveries to expand your knowledge.
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The Future of the Wild
by Jonathan Adams
With appropriate urgency and a thorough understanding of history and the issues, Jonathan Adams offers a sound conservation strategy in The Future of the Wild, …
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Silent Snow
by Marla Cone
The Arctic is home to some of the most contaminated people and animals on the planet. Cone reports on the dangers of pollution to native …
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The Weather Makers
by Tim Fridtjof Flannery
A history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what can be done to prevent a cataclysmic future includes specific …
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The Sustainability Revolution
by Andres R. Edwards
Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it …
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The Green Building Revolution
by Jerry Yudelson
The Green Building Revolution introduces reader to the basics of green building and to the projects and people that are advancing this movement. It shows …
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded
by Thomas L. Friedman
Examines America's loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11, and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are …
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Water Follies
by Robert Jerome Glennon
The Santa Cruz River that once flowed through Tucson, Arizona is today a sad mirage of a river. Except for brief periods following heavy rainfall, …
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The Assault on Reason
by Al Gore
Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: “Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election” “This book shows a fiery, throw-caution-to-the winds Al Gore, who …
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by Barbara Kingsolver
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in …
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Blessed Unrest
by Paul Hawken
The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations …
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Blue Frontier
by David Helvarg
The 2005 hurricane season has made the author's case: public attention is focused as never before on inappropriate coastal development, misuse of wetlands, risks of …
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Explores the issue of global warming from every angle, incorporating interviews with researchers and environmentalists, explaining the science and the studies, and presenting the personal …
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It's the Crude, Dude
by Linda Mcquaig
George W. Bush says he invaded Iraq to bring democracy to the Middle East. Some people believe that. But if you have nagging doubts, you'll …
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Cadillac Desert
by Marc Reisner
“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much …
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Living Downstream
by Sandra Steingraber
Biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as …
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CO2 Rising
by Tyler Volk
An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.
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Our Choice
by Al Gore
The former vice president and author of such best-sellers as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Earth in the Balance" presents a follow-up work to address key …
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Unscientific America
by Chris Mooney
Journalist and bestselling author Mooney and scientist Kirshenbaum offer an impassioned polemic about the dangers of America's scientific illiteracy. They go on to propose a …
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The Singularity is Near
by Ray Kurzweil
A controversial scientific vision predicts a time in which humans and machines will merge and create a new form of non-biological intelligence, explaining how the …
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
by Ray Kurzweil
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for …
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Nano
by Philip S. Berg
Public interest in the connection between science and religion has recently become very high, but the subject has long been studied by Kabbalists. Years before …
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Biotechnology and the Human Good
by C. Ben Mitchell
Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory. Who could argue that medical advances like antibiotics, blood transfusions, and pacemakers have …
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Science Lessons
by Gordon M. Binder
Under Gordon Binder's leadership, Amgen became the world's largest and most successful biotech company in the world. This text describes what it really takes to …
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The Botany of Desire
by Michael Pollan
“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed …