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Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin

On May 8, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Science, by Editor

Lee Smolin, author of the controversial bestseller The Trouble with Physics, argues that a limited notion of time is holding physics back. It’s time for a major revolution in scientific thought. The reality of time could be the key to the next big breakthrough in theoretical physics.

The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime by Adrian Raine

On May 3, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Science, by Editor

In The Anatomy of Violence, Raine dissects the criminal mind with a fascinating, readable, and far-reaching scientific journey into the body of evidence that reveals the brain to be a key culprit in crime causation.

Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers

On April 23, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Science, by Editor

Inspired by an eye-opening consultation at the Los Angeles Zoo, which revealed that a monkey experienced the same symptoms of heart failure as her human patients, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz embarked upon a project that would reshape how she practiced medicine.

Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami by Gretel Ehrlich

On April 22, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Science, by Editor

A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost.

Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by David Toomey

On April 8, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Science, by Editor

In recent years, scientists have hypothesized life-forms that can only be called “weird”: organisms that live off acid rather than water, microbes that thrive at temperatures and pressure levels so extreme that their cellular structures should break down, perhaps even organisms that reproduce without DNA. In Weird Life, David Toomey takes us on a breathtaking tour of a universe of hypothetical life, a universe of life as we do not know it.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Illuminated with Wit and Humor by Mary Roach

On April 2, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Science, by Editor

The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.

Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel

On March 24, 2013, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Science, by Editor

The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast—the gorilla—only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, A Dire Prognosis of Society’s Ills by Douglas Rushkoff

On March 14, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Science, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

Absorbing and thought-provoking, Present Shock is a wide-ranging, deeply thought meditation on what it means to be human in real time. Rushkoff weaves together seemingly disparate events and trends into a rich, nuanced portrait of how life in the eternal present has affected our biology, behavior, politics, and culture.

Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes

On March 12, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Science, by Editor

In Frankenstein’s Cat, the journalist Emily Anthes takes us from petri dish to pet store as she explores how biotechnology is shaping the future of our furry and feathered friends. As she ventures from bucolic barnyards to a “frozen zoo” where scientists are storing DNA from the planet’s most exotic creatures, she discovers how we can use cloning to protect endangered species, craft prosthetics to save injured animals, and employ genetic engineering to supply farms with disease-resistant livestock.

Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

On February 25, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Science, Social Studies, by Editor

It’s a Dog Eat Dog World. Don’t Be on the Menu. As President Dwight Eisenhower said, “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” In TOP DOG, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman reveal the size of the fight in all of us.