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Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders

Cara Giaimo · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes Atlas Obscura: Wild Life, a nature book like no other---a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world's most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It's more than a field...
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Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them

Porter Fox · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, and spiraling freak weather: the fallout of global warming is a real-life natural thriller, as captured in Porter Fox's urgent and stunning story of chasing the world's most devastating storms.. Here is the story of the largest storms on earth...
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On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Anthony Fauci M.D. · Viking
Format: Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents. Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous - and most revered - doctor in the world today. His role...
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Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves

Tamsin Mather · Little, Brown Audio
Format: Audiobook

Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin Mather's obsession with these momentous geological formations, the cultural...
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Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex: Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life

Dr. Joe Schwarcz · ECW Press
Format: Paperback

In this new collection of bite-size pop science essays, bestselling author, chemistry professor, and radio broadcaster Dr. Joe Schwarcz shows that you can find science virtually anywhere you look. And the closer you look, the more fascinating it becomes. In this volume, we look through...
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