Science & Technology Books

Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Orleans
The Fifth Season
Who Fears Death
Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos (Original)
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
The Ministry for the Future
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
Upgrade
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet: A Memoir
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
Meetings with Remarkable Trees
The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade
The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World
The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
Annals of the Former World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Alembic Rare Books

A Reading List for Tech Workers & Scientists

Braiding Sweetgrass
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion--Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

$20.00
$18.60
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Peter Attia

$32.00
$29.76
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to...

$16.95
$15.76
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson

$19.00
$17.67
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell

$18.99
$17.66
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space,...

Zach Weinersmith and Kelly Weinersmith

$32.00
$29.76
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms...

Ed Yong

$30.00
$27.90
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Wengrow and David Graeber

$35.00
$32.55
How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

Tristan Gooley

$24.95
$23.20
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Jenny Odell

$28.99
$26.96
Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy

Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can...

Daniel T. Willingham

$28.99
$26.96
Fermenter: DIY Fermentation for Vegan Fare, Including Recipes for Krauts, Pickles, Koji, Tempeh, Nut- & Seed-Based Cheeses, Ferme

Fermenter: DIY Fermentation for Vegan Fare, Including Recipes...

Liz Crain and Aaron Adams

$29.95
$27.85
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists

Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black...

Leah Penniman

$26.99
$25.10
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City

Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City

Andrew Alden and Laura Cunningham

$28.00
$26.04
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

Rosanna Xia

$30.00
$27.90
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

$27.00
$25.11
The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill Cocktail Crafts

The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill...

Camper English

$19.00
$17.67
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's...

David George Haskell

$18.00
$16.74
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Math, and Engineering from Nerd Nite

How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of...

Matt Wasowski, Chris Balakrishnan, et al.

$30.00
$27.90
Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

Christine Yu

$29.00
$26.97
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

Brad Fox

$29.00
$26.97
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard

$17.00
$15.81
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

$30.00
$27.90
Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

$35.00
$32.55
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think...

Johann Hari

$18.00
$16.74