Books like The Future of Life by Edward Osborne Wilson

Bill Bryson turns the universe into a conversational guide, tracing science from the Big Bang through evolution, geology, chemistry, astronomy, and particle physics with humor and clarity.

Jared Diamond analyses why great civilizations collapse, linking environmental misuse, climate change, population pressures, and trade instability as common causes, and offering lessons from societies that survived.

In Search of Nature offers a lively, accessible overview of Edward O. Wilson’s groundbreaking work on animal behavior, social organization and human ecology, illustrated by Laura Southworth.

50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save the Earth by John Javna is a book that was originally self-published in 1990, and became a #1 bestseller, selling 5 million copies b/t 1990 and 1995, at which point it was taken out of print. It became an early success in the green movement, and inspired many books in the years after its publication.THE NEW 50 SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO SAVE THE EARTH is a wholly new edition, using all the new information and techniques for living a green life, condensed into 50 of the most important, and most pragmatic, actions. With the recent resurgence of interest, and cultural focus, on living green, this book seems the perfect answer to those who wish they could be more environmentally conscious, but find themselves intimidated by the glut of information out there.

"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is humanity's innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our development as individuals and as a species. That idea has caught the imagination of diverse thinkers.The Biophilia Hypothesis brings together the views of some of the most creative scientists of our time, each attempting to amplify and refine the concept of biophilia. The variety of perspectives -- psychological, biological, cultural, symbolic, and aesthetic -- frame the theoretical issues by presenting empirical evidence that supports or refutes the hypothesis. Numerous examples illustrate the idea that biophilia and its converse, biophobia, have a genetic component: fear, and even full-blown phobias of snakes and spiders are quick to develop with very little negative reinforcement, while more threatening modern artifacts -- knives, guns, automobiles -- rarely elicit such a response people find trees that are climbable and have a broad, umbrella-like canopy more attractive than trees without these characteristics people would rather look at water, green vegetation, or flowers than built structures of glass and concrete The biophilia hypothesis, if substantiated, provides a powerful argument for the conservation of biological diversity. More important, it implies serious consequences for our well-being as society becomes further estranged from the natural world. Relentless environmental destruction could have a significant impact on our quality of life, not just materially but psychologically and even spiritually.