Reviews

Psychology

Present Shock

When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff.

Animals

Two books explore the weirdest life on Earth

Zombie Birds, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals by Becky Crew and Weird Life by David Toomey.

Genetics

Frankenstein’s Cat

Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes.

Science & Society

The Girls of Atomic City

The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan.

Health & Medicine

Gulp

Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach.

Anthropology

Paleofantasy

What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk.

Physics

A Palette of Particles by Jeremy Bernstein

Science & Society

Between Man and Beast

An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel.

Science & Society

A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox

Johannes Schöner and the Revolution of Modern Science 1474-1550 by John W. Hessler.

Neuroscience

Pieces of Light

How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts by Charles Fernyhough.

Paleontology

My Beloved Brontosaurus

On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs by Brian Switek.