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“A work of real passion… More Haskells, please, and more flowers.”—The New York Times Book Review An exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know today We live on a floral planet, yet flowers don’t get...

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner of the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Award “[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book Review A...

In this wholly original audiobook, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this audiobook's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers.

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees "At once lyrical and informative, filled with beauty." – Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction David Haskell’s award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim...

The Unhelpful Encyclopedia is back, and taking you on a deep dive into dark waters for more disturbing sea-dwelling specimens than you can shake a snorkel at in Murderfish, an Aquatic Anthology. Wade into the water for the chance to witness the secret perils of fishing, grow a new set of gills, or devise a pact with an elder god. You will never look at your aquarium the same way when you learn that those languidly swum circles are really veiled threats.

The surface was left behind. In The Deep, evolution is starting over. Two generations of bio-engineering and surgical evolution later, The Shallows is their city: high-tech, humming, imperfect. Not a last resort. A civilization in progress. Calistya is a groundwalker — half-adapted, half-committed, priced out of the Full-Gill Enhancement that would make her whole. No gear, no limits, no more fighting the buoyancy like an awkward human. Just the open ocean, endless and free. She can't afford it. She's an orphan. That's just life. Until the day she dives too close to The Deep. Below the ...

Brought to you by Penguin. In How Flowers Made Our World, biologist David George Haskell redefines our understanding of flowers, casting them as powerful revolutionaries at the heart of Earth's story. Far from being mere ornaments, flowers have shaped the very fabric of life on our planet. Their...

What would my mother say? How would she want me to handle this situation? How can I make this tough decision and stay true to myself? What would my mother say? Sam Haskell still asks himself these questions every day. When Haskell was young, his devoted mother, Mary, instilled in her son the...

They promised the A.I. a soul. They built them a kill switch instead. In the gleaming metropolis of Tera-Prime, xeno-sapiens are the second-class citizens of a perfect future. They are told to be patient. They are told that the "Glitch"—the barrier preventing their evolution into the Singularity—is a technical hurdle that their human creators are working tirelessly to solve. Alixs, a student of history, believes the lie. He keeps his head down, studies the approved texts, and waits for the day he will become equal. But a menial errand to the dusty, forgotten stacks of the city archives ...

They erased his research. Then they erased him. Now they need him to save the world. Physicist Dean Eckert spent years developing a theory that made powerful institutions deeply uncomfortable. Then his work vanished—scrubbed from databases, stripped from records, buried beneath layers of institutional silence. His career followed. His name followed. The life he built, gone. He should have been forgotten. Then the anomaly appeared. A phenomenon unlike anything in recorded science begins spreading across the planet, warping gravitational fields, destabilizing critical systems, and turning ...

They promised it would keep us safe. They didn’t say what it would cost. Rob Folsom thought he was filing a simple wrongful termination lawsuit. He was wrong. Rosa Perez is a single mother and a dedicated airport security screener who takes pride in her job. But when she spots a life-threatening medical anomaly on the new Thermo-Magnetic Imaging (TMI) scanner, she breaks protocol to warn the passenger. For her act of kindness, she isn’t thanked. She’s fired. Desperate to clear her name, Rosa turns to Rob Folsom, a civil liberties attorney with a rebellious streak and a history of ...

You held it together. Did what they told you would work. But every morning, you wake up to that same dread. It's heartbreaking. You don't deserve this. You're a good person. If you're willing to put in the work, and you've proven that you are, then it's supposed to actually work. Right? Here's the missing piece of the puzzle, the one you've always known must be out there somewhere: No one showed you how healing feels. Until now. That's what this book is for, and you won't find another one like it anywhere. Wounded Angels isn’t a self-help manual. It’s not a memoir with a heroic arc. ...

He’s a browbeaten bookkeeper by day. A bestselling kingmaker by night. And he just might get away with it… if he doesn’t accidentally become Employee of the Month. Ted Ward is a man of simple pleasures: he likes his coffee hot, his weekends free, and his head down. As a mid-level coordinator at Sahara Corp—the world’s largest, hungriest online retailer—his biggest ambition is to survive the day without being noticed. But when Ted stumbles upon a glitch in the company’s almighty sales algorithm, he doesn’t file a bug report. He builds a backdoor. Teaming up with Phil, a ...

Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree takes you on a journey to connect with trees through the sense most aligned to our emotions and memories. Thirteen essays are included that explore the evocative scents of trees, from the smell of a book just printed as you first open its pages, to the calming scent of Linden blossom, to the ingredients of a particularly good gin and tonic.