The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest

By Jack Nisbet

Fireflies, Honey, 
and Silk

By Gilbert Waldbauer, 
Illustrations by James Nardi

From Eternity to Here The Quest for the Ultimate 
Theory of Time

By Sean Carroll

The Lost Tombs of Thebes: Life in Paradise

By Zahi Hawass, photographs by Sandro Vannini

Moon 3-D: The Lunar Surface Comes to Life

By Jim Bell

Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration

By Roger D. Launius and Andrew K. Johnston

Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts

By edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro

Evolution: The Story of Life

By Douglas Palmer, illustrated by Peter Barrett

AntArctic: A Tribute to Life in the Polar Regions

By Michael Poliza

Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild

By Michael Forsberg with Dan O’Brien, David Wishart, and Ted Kooser

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Recent Interview

Xiaoming Wang

Hear author Xiaoming Wang interviewed by Vittorio Maestro, Editor in Chief of Natural History. (MP3, 17 minutes)