Diverse Books for a Neighborhood of Readers
world of wonders.jpg

Great Nonfiction

Mary Roach, "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law"

Mary Roach, "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law"

$29.11

Price includes state and local tax. Book can be picked up at the store or delivered to your home in Northwest Philadelphia. We don’t yet mail books - if you live outside of our delivery area, please visit Bookshop.org to have this great book mailed to you.

Quantity:
Add To Cart

What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.

Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and danger tree faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter's Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.

Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers. When it comes to problem wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem--and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.

James Nestor, "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art"

James Nestor, "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art"

$30.24
finding the mother.jpg

Suzanne Simard, "Finding the Mother Tree"

$31.27
Lulu Miller, "Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life"" why fish don't exist.jpg

Lulu Miller, "Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life""

$18.36
Bill Schutt, Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans, 8/13/24

Bill Schutt, Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans, 8/13/24

$33.48
Walter Iaacson, "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race"

Walter Iaacson, "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race"

$37.80