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Years:
All, 2023 (9), 2020 (9), 2012 (11)
Announced:
November 2023: 2023 Recent
WorkYear
Radical by Nature by James T. Costa
2023
The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls by Miriam Darlington
2023
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman
2023
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Dr. Arline T Geronimus
2023
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
2023
OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb
2023
Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó
2023
Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir by Iliana Regan
2023
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey
2023
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live by Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD
2020
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin
2020
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
2020
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
2020
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time by Hugh Raffles
2020
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss
2020
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina
2020
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght
2020
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer
2020
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
2012
Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience by Laurence Gonzales
2012
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
2012
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet by Robert M. Hazen
2012
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean
2012
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
2012
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
2012
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
2012
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott
2012
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall
2012
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
2012

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