Learning about pollinators is fun in the picture book Can You See If I’m a Bee? Melissa Garrick Edwards’s colorful and informative picture book Can You See If I’m a Bee? distinguishes between bees and other pollinating insects,... Read More

Chad Orzel traces how human concepts of time have changed over millennia in "A Brief History of Timekeeping". Today, “what time is it?” is a basic question with an accessible answer: all one has to do is look at a clock. But the... Read More

Jill Hunting’s "For Want of Wings" is the enrapturing, wide-ranging, and thoughtful account of her great-grandfather’s discovery of a rare dinosaur fossil in 1872. Tom Russell was on a Yale student expedition to Kansas when he... Read More

“Paleontology is one of the most familiar and accessible of all sciences,” Roy Plotnick proclaims. Why? Dinosaurs, of course. Drawn in as children, a lucky few get the chance to make a career out of serendipitous fossil discoveries.... Read More

Only human beings have the power to determine if their period on Earth will have dark implications or light ones, warns this urgent ecological history text. Bruce Glass’s ecological history "The Anthropocene Epoch" concerns... Read More

Fred Scharmen’s "Space Forces" charts the history of ideas about space travel and living in outer space. What do interplanetary aspirations say about societies, and what ramifications does space exploration have back on Earth? From the... Read More

When seeking to understand how the universe works, “we have to let go of instincts, intuitions and simple explanations,” science teacher Tim James writes. In "Astronomical", he revels in the oddness of planetary behavior and quantum... Read More

Bill Schutt’s "Pump" is an entertaining survey of the evolution of the circulatory system. From grasshoppers to whales, it explains how hearts and other analogous structures work. Zeroing in on the human heart, the book contrasts the... Read More