The Tangled Tree

The Tangled Tree

By
David Quammen
David Quammen
2018 • 480 pages

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62 books

Mostly Plants

egavs
Emma
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Botany of Desire
The Orchid Thief
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest

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31 books

Science

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Michael
The Scientist as Rebel
Deep Simplicity
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
Leonardo's Notebooks
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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62 books

Life Sciences

FetesandFika
Amanda
THE FEMALE BRAIN
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
The Botany of Desire
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Brilliant Green
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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356 books

Physical Collection

Kaydot
Katie
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Pebble in the Sky
Surfacing
Mort
A Green and Ancient Light
Oryx and Crake

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79 books

Borrowed

Kaydot
Katie
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Neuromancer
The Glass Hotel
Piranesi
Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

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23 books

Audiobooks

Kaydot
Katie
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
I'm Glad My Mom Died
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Fen, Bog and Swamp
All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
The Tangled Tree

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140 books

Physical Tbr

Lisa
Lisa
The Poisoned City
Becoming
Small Country
Air You Breathe A Novel
Mayflower
Sing, Unburied, Sing

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417 books

High Priority

Volenord
Volenord
Deep Learning
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Programming the Universe
Energy and Civilization: A History
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Selfish Gene

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198 books

Environmental History

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Zack D
Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

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41 books

History Of

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SashaSupporter
Rabid
A History of Feelings
Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide

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246 books

Nonfiction

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SashaSupporter
Anatomy of a Suicide
Rabid
Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
The Denial of Death

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511 books

Non Fiction

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Eugene Wilder
Where Men Win Glory
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Eating Animals
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Way We Eat
The Rest Is Noise

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17,841 books

My Library

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Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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685 books

Nf Biog Memoirs

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Lisa Francine
All Who Go Do Not Return
Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome One Woman's Desperate, Funny, and Healing Journey to Explore 30 Religions by Her 30th Birthday
Anger
The Rules Do Not Apply
When We Rise
Happiness: A Memoir

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365 books

Blinkist

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Daan Zeeuwe
Kaizen
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Lives of the Stoics
A Handbook for New Stoics
Making Sense

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9 books

History

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Daan Zeeuwe
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Tangled Tree
Origin Story A Big History of Everything
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Fate of Rome
The Book Of Five Rings: Gorin No Sho The Accurate, Unabridged Translation The Greatest Samurai Musashi Speaks
Tao Te Ching

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136 books

Nonfiction

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JSupporter
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Hidden Reality
Stealing Fire
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
The Tangled Tree
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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14 books

Nature

Garp
Gar Petterson
The Outrun
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Rising
Ålevangeliet
Dark Emu
What Would Nature Do?: A Guide for Our Uncertain Times
Sixteen Horses

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57 books

Science

Garp
Gar Petterson
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Thinking in systems : a primer
Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism

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34 books

Science

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Brian Suhr
Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Creativity
Daniels' Running Formula
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

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11 books

Nature

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Brian Suhr
Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible
One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
Alone on the Wall
Rocks: A Very Short Introduction
Patterns in Nature

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272 books

Science And Engineering

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Spiritomb
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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129 books

Biology

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Spiritomb
Bitch
The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses
Gory Details
Philosophy of Biology
The Book of Genes and Genomes

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99 books

To Read Non Fiction

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mithril
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Psychology of Everyday Things
Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices
Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really is
Designing for the Digital Age

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24 books

Evolutionary Biology

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Spiritomb
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
Wonderful life
Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood
Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention
Your Inner Fish
Friendship