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Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
by Rob Dunn
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by Rob Dunn
Published Aug 2025
Read ReviewsHow rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind.
by Bill Bryson
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsBill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.
by Michael E. McCullough
Published Jul 2020
Read ReviewsA sweeping psychological history of human goodness -- from the foundations of evolution to the modern political and social challenges humanity is now facing.
by Susan Hockfield
Published May 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.
by Yuval Noah Harari
Published May 2018
Read ReviewsA groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."
by Ed Yong
Published Jan 2018
Read ReviewsJoining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin - a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life on earth.
by Catherine Carver
Published Nov 2017
Read ReviewsImmune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us - how it knows what to attack and what to defend, and how it kills everything from the common cold to the plague bacterium.
by Neil Shubin
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsFrom one of our finest and most popular science writers comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?
by Jonnie Hughes
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsWhy do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very own "survival of the fittest"? And if so, does that explain why our species is so different from the rest of life on Earth?
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsWinner of BookBrowse's 2010 Best Book Award
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
by Richard Fortey
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsFortey introduces the reader to the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that is Londons Natural History Museum.
by Greg Critser
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsGeneration Rx will make every American who has ever taken a prescription drug look anew at what's in our medicine cabinets, and why.
by Michael C. Carroll
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsIn the shadow of New York City lies an unimposing 840-acre island unidentified on most maps. Lab 257 takes you deep inside Plum Island's laboratories and presents startling revelations including virus outbreaks, biological meltdowns and the connections between Plum Island, Lyme disease and the West Nile virus.
by John M. Barry
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsAn epic history of the deadliest plague in human history - the great flu epidemic of 1918, which killed seven times as many people as died in the First World War.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Published Sep 2004
Read ReviewsThe ultimate journey to discover how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since.
by Mary Roach
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsAn oddly compelling, often hilarious, forensic exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
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