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  Tree - My Encounters with Trees

  Aya Koda

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  **A London Review Bookshop Bestseller** 
  'Translated into English for the first time after a hugely successful 2022 reissue in Japan, this classic text, which features prominently in Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days, takes us on a “beautiful, pensive” journey through trees in Japan.'--Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller 
  A Japanese classic, Tree invites us to foster peace in our lives by connecting with trees. 
  Cherry blossom, hinoki, ezo spruce. Persimmon, maple, cypress. The trees of Japan are wondrous emblems of beauty that cast a spell on those who venture to its unique landscape. 
  As a child, Aya Koda realized they were more than mere objects of beauty. Gifted a sapling by her father, she discovered that we depend on trees as much as they do on us. Markers of time passing, they clear the air and regenerate our earth – while we are responsible to care for their future. 
  Following her travels around Japan, as she witnesses landslides, lumber and forests of falling ash, Tree is a beautiful series of essays that contemplate the most distinctive and eternal features of our natural world. A modern classic translated for the first time, Koda’s voice echoes down the generations, to remind us that trees hold a mirror to what we cherish on earth, and what we choose to leave behind. 
  Featured in Wim Winders’ Oscar-nominated film Perfect Days and now in English for the first time, translated from Japanese by Charlotte Goff.

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  Nature's Balancing Act - How...

  Ken Hicks

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  Are the physical laws of our universe finely tuned, such that life can exist? What does this imply about how our universe formed? Questions like these are examined in Nature's Balancing Act, presented for a wide audience. From the Big Bang to present-day research, ranging from gravitational waves to experiments on antimatter, our physical laws are shown to be slightly off balance, allowing life to exist.In its opening chapters, the following is asked: What would happen if the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, were slightly stronger or weaker? We know today that pushing the nuclear force off balance by just a few percent would create a different universe, unlike our own. Also, for life to exist, there must be a slight imbalance in the way matter and antimatter were created in the Big Bang. These are just two examples of the fine tuning of physical laws that must happen for the cosmological conditions to be right for life to exist. If the universe wasn't “just so,” you wouldn't be here to hear about it!Even with a favorable universe, how did life on Earth begin? Can human life continue to exist for millions of years, or will we cause our own extinction? These topics are considered in the book and provide a fascinating look at our existence on Earth and the possibility of life elsewhere.

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  CLIMATE - How Wladimir Koppen...

  Darcy Pattison

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  2026 Best STEM Book – NSTA/CBC 
  2026 NSSTA Notable Social Studies Book 
  “A visually evocative and mentally stimulating introduction to a climatologist.” Kirkus Reviews 
    
  Before kids can understand climate change—first, they need to understand climate. 
    
  As a teenager, Wladimir Köppen became interested how the landscape changed as he traveled south from St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea in northern Russia to Crimea on the Black Sea. Explaining that changing landscape became his life’s work. 
    
  In late 1800s, weather and climates were poorly understood. They needed someone to study it carefully over a long period of time. Köppen moved to Hamburg, Germany as head weatherman at the Deutsche Seewarte, the German Marine Observatory on the Baltic Sea. His job was to start one of the world’s first daily weather reports. He helped set up weather stations on the North Sea and train its staff. From around the world, he gathered other weather data. 
    
  The World’s First Climate Map 
  Slowly, that childhood problem of changing landscapes came into focus as he developed the world’s first climate map. They set out the five climate classifications Köppen identified (tropical, arid, temperate, continental, and polar). Köppen’s maps are still used today to help us understand the world’s ecosystems and plan for the future. 
   

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  Ambience - Tropical beach

  Rasmus Broe

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  Imagine you are lying on a beach in the tropics. Waves are lapping gently over the fine white sand. Exotic birds chirp in the background, and you can feel the warmth of the sun’s rays on your skin. You open a book to read and are served a chilled drink with ice cubes clinking satisfyingly against the glass. Every so often, music from the beach bar drifts over and the cicadas hum in the palm trees. 
  Saga Sounds 
  Research has shown that sounds can have both a relaxing and stimulating effect on the brain. The ambience series from Saga Talks is a series of pleasant, varied soundscapes, which you can listen to when winding down, going to sleep, or focusing on work. A specially designed sound universe creates a calming atmosphere, also known as “ambience”, which you can enter when and where you want. 
  Saga Talks has created a series of different soundscapes and ambient environments in collaboration with sound designer and composer Rasmus Broe (f. 1975).

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  The Golden Toad - An Ecological...

  Trevor Ritland, Kyle Ritland

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  As young boys, Trevor and Kyle Ritland were fascinated by the golden toad of Costa Rica, a brilliant species their biologist father showed them in his projector's slide shows. Native to only one wind-battered ridgeline high on the continental divide above the cloud forests of Monteverde, thousands of golden toads would congregate for a few weeks each year in ephemeral pools among the twisted roots to mate, deposit their offspring, and retreat again beneath the earth. But from one year to the next, the toads disappeared without a trace. Since then, only rumors remain, which beg the question: could the golden toad still be alive? 
   
   
   
  In The Golden Toad, Trevor and Kyle set off to investigate an environmental mystery with unexpected revelations, a story that speaks to our own collective and uncertain future. Guided by Costa Rican naturalists—including the last person to have seen the golden toad alive—Trevor searches for survivors while Kyle hunts the killer, and their paths lead them through an imperiled forest, a deadly pandemic, and a changing climate, intertwining at the site of the golden toad's last emergence deep in Monteverde's Bosque Eterno de Los Niños. 
   
   
   
  The Golden Toad changes the conversation around extinction, climate change, and conservation while exploring environmental grief, resurrection, and hope in a changing world.

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  BIOLOGY WORTH LISTENING TO - A...

  Darrell Ason

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  HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED AT THE WORLD AROUND YOU AND WONDERED HOW—life emerged, how species evolved, how ecosystems thrive, and how, against all odds, we humans came to dominate the planet? 
  If you’ve ever felt that burning curiosity but found traditional science books too dense or intimidating, this guide is for you. 
  Biology Worth Listening To isn’t a dry lecture—it’s an immersive journey into the story of life itself. Designed for the self-taught scientist, the endlessly curious, and anyone eager to fall back in love with science, this audiobook makes biology accessible, thrilling, and deeply human. Perfect for people with auditory memory who lack time. You’ll discover:The Formation of Life - How we passed from inanimated to animated living beings in that great primordial cauldron that was our planet Earth.The power of evolution—how life constantly reinvents itself in the ultimate survival game.The eternal dance of competition and cooperationThe delicate balance of biodiversityThe impact of human actions on the environment—from colonial times to the present—exploring the consequences of introducing non-native species into new ecosystems.And much more. 
  AND THE BEST PART? No charts, no complicated formulas, no dry academic talk—just engaging storytelling designed to make you feel the wonder of life. Whether you’re listening on your commute, during a walk, or while relaxing at home, this audiobook is here to reignite your curiosity and remind you why biology is the most fascinating science of all. 
  SO PRESS PLAY, open your mind and let’s embark on this extraordinary journey together. Because the story of life is really worth listening to.

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