Upcoming Books: The Comfort of Food
Food does more than feed us – it is essential to human development, brain health, social interactions, and the joy of being alive. We’re assembling a compendium of the best […]
Food does more than feed us – it is essential to human development, brain health, social interactions, and the joy of being alive. We’re assembling a compendium of the best […]
Recent classics and new books look at the human condition– how we think, feel, remember and respond to people and powerful external forces. How are human emotions and behaviors being […]
Doctors without Borders, known internationally as Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) kicks off our Earth Week series of “earth heroes.” Health and human well-being are guiding principles for a sustainable world. […]
The books we’ve selected for the 2018 holiday season – to give or get — start with a thrilling mystery. Author Susan Orlean (who wrote the Orchid Thief), regales us […]
Our Summer 2017 books lineup has grown into three stories that we will unwrap over the next few weeks. While you wait, we are sharing a fabulous array of Summer […]
Four million people have eyesight today thanks to two inspired eye surgeons , who restored their vision and trained others to do the same surgical procedure. Dr. Sanduk Ruit and […]
Award-winning journalists and experts – Sebastian Junger, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Ackerman– are among the authors we’ve selected for Ten More Books you’ll like this summer. This selection of 10 looks […]
The 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize awards announced April 18 in San Francisco were tinged with the sadness that 2015 award winner Berta Cáceres had been assassinated only weeks before in Honduras. This […]
NOVA, the 42- year- old PBS television series, is citizen science’s best friend – thoughtful, balanced, free of charge, and available to millions of people via several media platforms. That […]
Great writers, good storytelling, fascinating subjects — these are the basis for the Best of the Best authors and books for Holidays 2015. Their métier is nonfiction, whether deep science, history or memoir, […]