Popular Science
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Paperback
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue.
You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Powers of Persuasion, and Why It Matters
eBook
Named a 2021 Best Book for Ethical Leaders by Notre Dame’s Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership and a Top Business Title of the Month by the Financial Times
“One of the most enticing and entertaining books I’ve ever read on persuasion.”
The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
Hardback
A taboo-busting romp through the shame, stink and strange science of sweating.
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Hardback
A history of shells and the creatures that make them, revealing their outsized role in human affairs and what they have to tell us about the changing oceans.
Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
Hardback
The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should.