Looking back to human ancestors as exemplars of healthy living, "On the Origin of Being" seeks the causes of a number of contemporary ailments and points to a more connected path forward. Luke Comer and Jenny Powers’s "On the Origin of... Read More

Karen Bloom Gevirtz’s compelling history book The Apothecary’s Wife covers the commodification of medicine and the sidelining of women in medical history. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Scientific... Read More

Sally Symes’s colorful, child-friendly reference text "First Big Book of How" compiles dozens of scientific questions on topics ranging from human memory to space telescopes and dinosaur extinction. The questions are siphoned into six... Read More

Combining entertaining scenarios with fascinating facts, "Daydreaming in the Solar System" is a clever, accessible scientific exploration of the planets, moons, comets, and other celestial bodies orbiting the sun. Each chapter begins... Read More

"Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma" functions as an extended argument about the dangers of the pharmaceutical industry, with an emphasis on modern vaccines. Stephen Heartland’s incendiary book "Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma"... Read More

Modeling effective doctor-patient and colleague communication, the inspiring career guide "Extraordinary Doctor" introduces emotional intelligence and people skills as being of significant value to doctors. A career manual that addresses... Read More

Peter Cavanagh’s "How Birds Fly" is an enlightening examination of the aerodynamics of bird flight. A rare science book that includes dazzling photographs of birds from around the globe, including hummingbirds, songbirds, raptors, and... Read More

Telmo Pievani’s provocative book "Serendipity" integrates literature, philosophy, and science to explore an idea crucial to scientific discovery. Pievani notes that in the Persian fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip,”... Read More