A Tour Through the Crimes and Criminals of Belle Époque Paris
Book review: The Crimes of Paris, by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Amazon / Book Depository) The disappearance of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre stunned Parisians, who had long dismissed any impossible...
View ArticleRichard Preston Tells Stories from Within Ebola’s Deadliest Outbreak
Book review: Crisis in the Red Zone, by Richard Preston (Amazon / Book Depository) Viruses are the undead of the living world, the zombies of deep time. Nobody knows the origin of viruses–how they came...
View ArticleA Warts-And-All Take On Female Anatomy and Beauty Issues
Book review: Gross Anatomy: A Field Guide to Loving Your Body, Warts and All, by Mara Altman (Amazon / Book Depository) Mara Altman’s Gross Anatomy, a loose memoir told through investigation of myths,...
View ArticlePopular Science on How Genes Can Influence Who We Are
Book review: Pleased to Meet Me, by Bill Sullivan (Amazon / Book Depository) Bill Sullivan, professor of pharmacology and microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, writes that he’s...
View ArticleA Forensic Ecologist on Life, Death, and Crime-Solving
Book review: The Nature of Life and Death, by Patricia Wiltshire (Amazon / Book Depository) Patricia Wiltshire is a botanist, forensic ecologist, and palynologist — what she defines as “one who studies...
View ArticleInto the Underworlds
Book review: Underland, by Robert Macfarlane (Amazon / Book Depository) What happened here? The mouth of the chasm says nothing. The trees say nothing. Leaning over the edge of the sinkhole, I can see...
View Article“Separating the Myth from the Medicine” in Women’s Health
Book review: The Vagina Bible, by Jen Gunter, MD (Amazon / Book Depository) Misinforming women about their bodies serves no one. And I’m here to help end it. The Vagina Bible is a book that should be...
View ArticleAmateur Sleuths and the Unidentified
Book review: The Skeleton Crew, by Deborah Halber (Amazon / Book Depository) Chances are good that you or someone you know has at one point stumbled over a dead body. There are shockingly large numbers...
View ArticleA Sociologist Explores “The Science of Fear”
Book review: Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, by Margee Kerr (Amazon / Book Depository) Last year I’d read enough spooky nonfiction to make a list for October, but this year I didn’t...
View ArticleMalcolm Gladwell’s Take on Stranger Dynamics
Book review: Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell (Amazon / Book Depository) We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest of clues. We jump at the chance to judge...
View ArticlePoison, Prohibition, and the Beginnings of Forensic Medicine
Book review: The Poisoner's Handbook, by Deborah Blum (Amazon / Book Depository) The Poisoner's Handbook came up in Nonfiction November last year, when Silver Button Books mentioned it as an...
View ArticleSlice-of-Life Stories From A Random Day
Book review: One Day, by Gene Weingarten (Amazon / Book Depository) Select an ordinary day at random, report it deeply, then tell it like it happened -- from midnight to midnight, the most basic,...
View ArticleNonfiction November Week 1: Year in Nonfiction
Nonfiction November, that time of year to celebrate stories filled with facts and footnotes, truth being stranger than fiction, and very, very long subtitles begins today! This week, a look at your...
View ArticleThe Bad Science and Good Marketing of Positive Thinking
Book review: Bright-Sided, by Barbara Ehrenreich (Amazon / Book Depository) An acquaintance told me about a friend of hers experiencing a breast cancer recurrence. That's harrowing anytime, but was...
View ArticleSusannah Cahalan Investigates the “Pretenders” of a Groundbreaking...
Book review: The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan (Amazon / Book Depository) The Great Pretender, Susannah Cahalan's first book since Brain on Fire, her 2012 memoir of a rare, difficult-to-diagnose...
View ArticleNonfiction November Week 3: Be the Expert/Ask the Expert: Bad Science,...
Week 3: (Nov. 11 to 15) – Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert (Katie @ Doing Dewey): Three ways to join in this week! You can either share three or more books on a single topic that you have...
View ArticleAn NHS Doctor Analyzes Bad Scientific and Medical Reporting. The Results Will...
Book review: Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre (Amazon / Book Depository) The hole in our culture is gaping: evidence-based medicine, the ultimate applied science, contains some of the cleverest ideas from...
View ArticleNonfiction November Week 5: New to My TBR
This is it: already the final week of Nonfiction November! Did you find lots of new recommendations for your reading list? Tell me about them! Week 5: (Nov. 25 to 30) – New to My TBR - Rennie (that's...
View Article“Human Stories” Illustrate Our Connection to the Ocean
Book review: The Imperiled Ocean, by Laura Trethewey (Amazon / Book Depository) This story about a village by the sea, a complicated past behind it, a challenging future ahead, is like so many stories...
View Article14 New Nonfiction Releases Coming in 2020
2019 hasn't shown itself out quite yet but I'm already looking forward to what new nonfiction 2020 has in store. Here are some upcoming new releases from the new decade that I have my eye on. F*ck Your...
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