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animal

animals and humans, a foray into the worlds of (von uexküll)
ant (sleigh)
ape (sorenson)
[baiji] witness to extinction (turvey)
bear (bieder)
bee (preston)
[bees] fruitless fall (jacobsen)
blue [whale], wild (bortolotti)
camel (irwin)
cat (rogers)
chicken (potts)
chupacabra, tracking the (radford)
cockroach (copeland)
cow (velten)
cranes, sandhill and whooping (johnsgard)
crow (sax)
dog tulip, my (ackerley)
donkey (bough)
duck (de rijke)
eel (schweid)
elephant (wylie)
[endangered species] last chance to see (adams & carwardine)
falcon (macdonald)
fish feel pain?, do (braithwaite)
fly (connor)
fox (wallen)
frog (sleigh)
giraffe (williams)
hare (carnell)
horse (walker)
hyena (brottman)
ivory-billed woodpecker, in search of the (jackson)
[ivory-billed woodpecker] the grail bird (gallagher)
[ivory-billed woodpecker] stalking the ghost bird (steinberg)
kangaroo (jackson & vernes)
kangaroo (simons)
lion (jackson)
lobster (king)
lobster (townsend)
moose (jackson)
mosquito (jones)
octopus (mather, et al.)
otter (allen)
owl (morris)
oyster (stott)
panda, the way of the (nicholls)
peacock (jackson)
penguin (martin)
pig (mizelle)
pigeon (allen)
pythons in the united states, invasive (dorcas & willson)
rat (burt)
rhinoceros (enright)
rin tin tin (orlean)
salmon (coates)
shark (crawford)
snail (williams)
snake (stutesman)
sparrow (todd)
spider (michalski)
spider silk (brunetta & craig)
[sturgeon] caviar (fletcher)
swan (young)
[taxidermy] the authentic animal (madden)
tiger (green)
tortoise (young)
trout (owen)
vulture (van dooren)
whale (roman)
wolf (marvin)
wolves, julie of the (george)

vegetable

buff & buff, big tree
estabrook, tomatoland
gillman, how trees die
koeppel, banana
lanza, olive
manaster, pecans
mathews, chicle
nasrallah, dates
pollan, in defense of food
wallace, the billionaire's vinegar

mineral

bird & sherwin, american prometheus
brox, brilliant
crichton, prey
freinkel, plastic
larson, thunderstruck
mcewan, solar
page & officer, the big one
rathje & murphy, rubbish
reich, plastic fantastic
tribble, a colossal hoax
welland, sand
winchester, a crack in the edge of the world
zalasiewicz, the earth after us

medical

barry, the great influenza
birnbaum, season to taste
blum, the poisoner's handbook
jeffreys, aspirin
rutkow, james a. garfield
skloot, the immortal life of henrietta lacks
starr, the killer of little shepherds

anthropological

diamond, collapse
falk, the fossil chronicles
finlayson, the humans who went extinct
garwood, flat earth
hawkins, the ethics of waste
heinrich, why we run
langewiesche, the outlaw sea
ogas & gaddam, a billion wicked thoughts
sacks, musicophilia
vaughan & guerra, y: the last man
von uexküll, a foray into the worlds of animals and humans
wells, deep ancestry

extraterrestrial

davies, the eerie silence
nelson, rocket men
shostak, confessions of an alien hunter
tyson, the pluto files

evolutional

brunetta & craig, spider silk
falk, the fossil chronicles
larson, edward j.: summer for the gods
miller, only a theory
petto & godfrey: scientists confront
shippen, men, microscopes, and living things