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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

This Is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn’t Call It That

The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife

Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but Were Too Afraid to Ask)

Eat & Flourish: How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being

Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It

smART: Use Your Eyes to Boost Your Brain

The Book of the Earthworm

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs

Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness

At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Butts: A Backstory

Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal

T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

The Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology

Why Women Are Blamed for Everything: Exploring Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma

Vera Rubin: A Life

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer

Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound

Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

Worn: A People’s History of Clothing

The Little Book of Snow

Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

Fix the System, Not the Women

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

The Girl Explorers

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

Rapport: The Four Ways to Read People

The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past

Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side

Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

KitchenWise: Essential Food Science for Home Cooks

The ADHD-Autism Connection: A Step Toward More Accurate Diagnoses and Effective Treatments

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing

Forgotten Women: The Scientists

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

Nourish: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families–With Tips & Recipes for Bringing Health, Joy, & Connection to Your Dinner Table

Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We “Catch” Mental Illness

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do

Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters

Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films

Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle

Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse

Exercise Is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging

Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life

Live Longer with AI

Nerve

Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

Message Received: 7 Steps to Break Down Communication Barriers at Work

Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family

Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change

Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear

How to Handle a Crowd: The Art of Creating Healthy and Dynamic Online Communities

Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do about It

What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action

101 Ways to Go Zero Waste

The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives… The Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin

The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm –And Built a New Life

Vesper Flights

The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars

The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine

x + y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild

What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color

Who Cares Wins: Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World

Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion

Staying Alive

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You

The Case for the Green New Deal

Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry

Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities

Abundant Beauty: The Adventurous Travels of Marianne North, Botanical Artist

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth

Sextech Revolution: The Future of Sexual Wellness

The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

Who Did It First?: 50 Scientists, Artists, and Mathematicians Who Revolutionized the World

How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion

The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect

A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes

Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Healing with CBD: How Cannabidiol Can Transform Your Health without the High

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Girl Talk: What Science Can Tell Us About Female Friendship

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food

Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

The Bystander Effect

Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power

Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment

Google It: A History of Google

Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

The Skincare Bible: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Great Skin

Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet

Feminism and Science

Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us

Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Virus: 101 Incredible Microbes from Coronavirus to Zika

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism

Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

The Field Guide to Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Scientific Research and Make a Difference

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

The Flavour Thesaurus: Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook

Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire

This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

How Music Can Make You Better

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army and Other Diabolical Insects

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants: The art and science to grow your own house plants

When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

Unf#ck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

Pilates Body in Motion

Data Feminism

For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working for You

Staying Well: How to Build a Healthy Immune System in the Modern World

The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness

Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student’s Journey

Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back)

Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin