In this groundbreaking, best-selling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.

It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time

Noémi's cousin Catalina writes a strange letter begging for help. She claims her new husband Virgil Doyle is poisoning her, that "fleshless things" and ghosts trouble her, that "they will not let me go." Noémi — self-assured, chic and stubborn — leaves the glamor of 1950s Mexico City for the countryside, still depressed after a mining bust and fecund with secrets, to determine whether Catalina needs rescue.

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world.

science fiction novel revolving around the martian invasion of Earth

Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster place, creating a powerful portrait of the strengths, struggles and hopes of Black women in America.

A Sand County Almanac is a combination of natural history, scene painting with words, and philosophy.

borrowed by TJ Odom

D'Ignazio and Klein

A powerful call to action for everyone who cares about how technology reflects and reproduces social hierarchies and injustices

borrowed by Kane Moser

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018

An Anthology of science and nature writings from multiple authors

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019

An Anthology of science and nature writings from multiple authors

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men  —  college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps  —  to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them.

In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.

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A rare and timeless book that takes the reader beneath the ocean's surface to travel with a young sperm whale.

Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world.

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Collection of interviews from members of the Combahee River Collective

From one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time comes an unforgettable true story about the reedming potential of mercy. Bryan Stevenson was a gifted young attorney when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and those trapped in the furthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man sentenced to die for a notorious murder he didn't commit. The case drew Stevenson into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship--an transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

laura.naslund@uga.edu

how to have honest conversations about race and racism

Enduring debates that define and inspire our country

discussing race and racism from a Whyte antiracist educator

anna.willoughby@uga.edu

Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction

Vandermeer & Perfecto

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on insights and approaches to macroecology with a focus on marine systems

Venables and Ripley

A self proclaimed "complete" guided to the worlds most important thinkers and theories

guide to experimental design and field monitoring skills, data analysis, and report writing

an ecophysiological approach to the origins of land animals

A Guide to Making Your Science Matter: Escape from the Ivory Tower

science communication guide from a science writer and zoologist

Nisbet and Gurney

Comprehensive look at the origins, natural and human history, ecology, distribution, and conservation of Southern grasslands (yes, there are some!)

Borrowed by Erik Jones

Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound travelers by hulks of old cars. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems her home and her people, while also cataloging the source of her childhood hope: the Edenic longleaf pine forests, where orchids grow amid wiregrass at the feet of widely spaced, lofty trees. Today, the forests exist in fragments, cherished and threatened, and the South of her youth is gradually being overtaken by golf courses and suburban development. A contemporary classic, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is a clarion call to protect the cultures and ecologies of every childhood.

Drawing on her life as an indigenous [botanical] scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings--asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass--offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.

Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life--but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father's college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work "with both the heart and the hands." Etc.

Audobon Field Guide to Southeastern States

Alden and Nelson

Covers wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, general natural history, geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns, the night sky, parks, preserves, hiking trails, forests, and wildlife sanctuaries, etc.

Non-technical field guide to flowers in the southern mountains that stretch from the Pennsylvania border into northern Georgia, focusing on the Blue Ridge ecoregion.

Covers introduction to probability and Bayesian inference, understanding Bayes' rule , nuts and bolts of Bayesian analytic methods, computational Bayes and real-world Bayesian analysis, egression analysis and hierarchical methods

A biologist explores a mysterious and hazardous landscape

As the Shadows Move (Odum Creative Writing Zine - 2025)

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change

Schlesinger & Bernhardt

Covers earth-surface chemistry in atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic systems. 3rd Ed

Charlotte Hovland

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Chapin, Matson, and Vitousek

Overview/introduction to ecology in terrestrial systems. Springer. 2nd Ed.

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Borrowed by Eliot Hall

Non-science book about science

"Paula Stephans investigates how competition among scientists for scarce resources and reputation shapes scientific research."

Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water

Popular Science, Environmental Policy

Critical history of the damming of the Western US. Dated, but compelling.