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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
The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present Paul Seabright | Hardcover Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, this book shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation.
Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat 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.
Boredom: A Lively History Peter Toohey | Paperback This book argues that boredom is actually one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of the human experience.
Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are Sebastian Seung | Hardcover This book is about the discovery of the biological basis of our identity, which might lie in the pattern of connections between the brain’s neurons – the so called “connectome”.
The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise Garret Keizer | Hardcover This book shows that noise has been a byproduct of human striving since ancient times even as it has become a significant cause of disease in our own. At heart, noise provides a key for understanding some of our most [...]
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others David Livingstone Smith | Hardcover This book illuminates precisely how and why we sometimes think of others as subhuman creatures and it provides a highly original study of the roots of human violence and bigotry. It draws on a rich mix of history, biology, anthropology, [...]
Based on 12 “science book lists” from different sources ranging from the Economist and the New York Times to the Washington Post and the New Scientist, we have created a list of popular science books that were most mentioned on any of these lists. Below is the outcome of that analysis, providing the best popular science books [...]
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker | Hardcover This book argues that violence has been declining for millennia and although we might sometimes think the opposite, we may actually be living in the most peaceful time in human history.
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness S. Nassir Ghaemi | Hardcover This book investigates the surprisingly deep correlation between successful leadership and mental illness, as seen through some of history’s greatest generals, politicians and businessmen.
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy Martin Lindstrom | Hardcover This book exposes the full extent of the psychological tricks that companies use and devise to sell their products and services.