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Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts
Maya Moore Irons - Andscape
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction.A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped... |
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Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
Stuart Ritchie - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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An insider's view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon - and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless - or, worse,... |
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The Calcium Connection: The Little-Known Enzyme at the Root of Your Cellular Health
Brunde Broady - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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An enormous body of reputable research into this enzyme has been isolated, ignored, and misunderstood by medical experts. The importance of this enzyme simply cannot be overstated.The Calcium Connection: The Little-Known Enzyme at the Root of Your Cellular Health delivers a clear explanation... |
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Freedom
Sebastian Junger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don&;t coexist easily: we value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs. In this intricately crafted and thought-provoking... |
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Everything You Know About the Human Body Is Wrong
Matt Brown - Batsford
Format: Hardcover
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Think you know the truth about your body? With wit and humor, popular science writer Matt Brown is here to separate fact from fiction, and solve the mysteries surrounding this most fascinating of subjects. Does giving kids sugar make them hyperactive? Is there such a thing as being double-jointed?... |
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyThe gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine foreverIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed... |
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A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
Johannes Krause - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Johannes Krause is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a brilliant pioneer in the field of archaeogenetics - archaeology augmented by DNA sequencing technology - which has allowed scientists to reconstruct human history reaching back hundreds of thousands... |
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Deadly Rattlesnakes (Deadly Snakes)
MONIKA DAVIES - Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: Library Binding
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A rattlesnake's rattle is built up over time as it sheds its skin and it shakes its rattle using tiny muscles on the sides of its tail. This is fascinating--unless you hear the deadly rattle yourself! The rattle is a warning that a venomous snake is nearby. Readers learn all about rattles... |
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Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
Greta Thunberg - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"An extraordinary account of how one family rose, with unshakable moral clarity, to the tremendous responsibility of being alive at the moment when our immediate collective decisions will determine the fate of life on Earth. They share their story of courage not because they want our accolades,... |
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