Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional books about science, health and the environment
Science, Health and the Environment
Recommended books found: 186
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by Mustafa Suleyman
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Apr 2025
An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company ...
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
by Cat Bohannon
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Feb 2025
The real origin of our species: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
by Rebecca Renner
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters
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Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
by Julie Sedivy
Hardcover: Oct 2024
A celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
by Helen Czerski
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A scientist's exploration of the "ocean engine"—the physics behind the ocean's systems—and why it matters.
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
by Ben Goldfarb
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager.
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Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
by Theodore H. Schwartz
Hardcover: Aug 2024
A popular biography of brain surgery, by one of its preeminent practitioners.
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
by Ferris Jabr
Hardcover: Jun 2024
A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life.
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
by Olivia Laing
Hardcover: Jun 2024
Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise.
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The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
by David Lipsky
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
The New York Times best-selling author explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life—through a history of climate denial and its consequences.
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by Zoë Schlanger
Hardcover: May 2024
Paperback: May 2025
Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us.
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by Lisa Kaltenegger
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Paperback: Dec 2025
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.
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Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Apr 2024
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy—and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw ...
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Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
by Philip Plait
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Apr 2024
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with the universe like never before.
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
by Jessica J. Lee
Hardcover: Mar 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future
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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
by Kate Zernike
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixteen female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years—sparking a nationwide ...
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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
by Jake Bittle
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
The untold story of climate migration—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.
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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.
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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
by Rebecca Boyle
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Our Moon invites us to reexamine our relationship with our closest cosmic companion.
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Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
by Nell Greenfieldboyce
Hardcover: Jan 2024
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life.
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