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Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
Philipp Dettmer - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you head... |
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Richard Munson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print Length
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Tesla's inventions transformed our world, and his visions have continued to inspire great minds for generations.Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In Tesla,... |
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Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life
Richard Louv - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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"From the author of the New York Times bestseller that defined nature-deficit disorder and launched the international children-and-nature movement, Vitamin N (for "nature") is a complete prescription for connecting with the power and joy of the natural world right now,"--Amazon.com.Nature-deficit... |
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Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle
Douglas J. Emlen - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The story behind the stunning extreme weapons we see in the animal world--teeth and horns and claws--and what they can tell us about the way humans develop and use arms and other weaponsIn Animal Weapons Doug Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where hes been... |
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine... |
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover
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We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince decided to travel the world and see for herself... |
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The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
Eben Kirksey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"That rare kind of scholarship that is also a page-turner." At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified babies -- twin girls named Lulu and Nana -- sending shockwaves around the world. A year later,... |
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville... |
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