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Best New Popular Science Books
Regular updates of the most interesting and best reviewed popular science books that have recently been published
Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
By Giulio Tononi
Not since “Gödel, Escher, Bach” has there been a book that interweaves science, art and the imagination with such originality, exploring our consciousness unlike any other.
Posted in Neuroscience, Psychology
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family
By Shelley Emling
Focusing on the first family in science, this biography of Marie Curie plumbs the recesses of her relationships with her two daughters, extraordinary in their own right, and presents the legendary scientist to us in a fresh way.
The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
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Paul Seabright | Hardcover
Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, this book shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation.
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Posted in Biology, General, Neuroscience, Psychology
An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
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Tyler Cowen | Hardcover
One of the most influential economists of the decade boldly argues that just about everything you’ve heard about food is wrong. |
The Social Conquest of Earth
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Edward O. Wilson | Hardcover
Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature, this book presents us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earth’s biosphere. |
Posted in Biology
God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
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Victor J. Stenger | Paperback
This book goes on to detail how religion and science are fundamentally incompatible in several areas: the origin of the universe and its physical parameters, the origin of complexity, holism versus reductionism, the nature of mind and consciousness, and the source of morality. |
Posted in General
Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat
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Harvey Levenstein | Hardcover
This book explores one of the striking anomalies of American culture: its love/hate relationship with eating and the particularly perplexing choices that humans have to make about the food they eat because they can eat everything. |
Posted in General, History, Psychology
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
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Ian Stewart | Hardcover
In this book, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a 17 mathematical equations to explore the vitally important connections between math and human progress. |
Posted in Mathematics
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
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The fascinating chronicle of life’s history is not told through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. |
Posted in Biology
Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
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David S. Richeson | Paperback
Leonhard Euler’s polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects, from soccer balls and gemstones to giant all-carbon molecules – and yet this formula is so simple it can be explained to a child. |
Posted in Mathematics
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