"Quite Mad", Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s mental illness memoir, is nothing short of mesmerizing—an ode to her years of struggling with anxiety, OCD, and PTSD, all of which she eventually accepted as a core part of her being. The book... Read More

Seema Yasmin’s "The Impatient Dr. Lange" tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Joseph “Joep” Lange, who devoted his career to researching a cure for AIDS until his death aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014. Yasmin, his former... Read More

Stephanie Tourles’s Essential Oils: A Beginner’s Guide demystifies the world of oils and unlocks their benefits. Essential oils are a current trend backed by age-old wisdom and timeless benefits. They are an appealing solution to... Read More

Accessible, well guided, pragmatic, and impactful: to describe Brendon Abram’s "Teaching Trauma Sensitive Yoga" is to describe an ideal manifestation of its subject matter. Drawing on a deep well of experience as a trauma-sensitive... Read More

An illuminating treatise on an important and poorly understood subject, Bryna Siegel’s "The Politics of Autism" explores the many ways that diagnosis and treatment of the condition have gone wrong. This is a vital resource, written by... Read More

Complex, fleeting, and capable of catapulting us decades back in time with a single whiff, our sense of smell is our most elusive and inarticulate sense. Barney Shaw’s "The Smell of Fresh Rain" brings science, a forensics-level sense... Read More

Winning the War on Cancer: The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure by Sylvie Beljanski is the story of the discovery and suppression of a promising natural remedy for cancer. Based on death rates, the war on cancer seems like a war lost,... Read More

Every day, thousands of “leading experts” tell us what to embrace and what to avoid. But how useful is the advice? How do useless trends and products make their way into the public sphere while harmless ones become villains? "Bad... Read More