Science Book Summaries - Page 3

The Compass of Pleasure

How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning and Gambling Feel So Good

The Talent Code

Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.

Time Travel

A History

The Selfish Gene

A landmark work in the field of biology and evolution

Hacking Darwin

Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

Extra Life

A Short History of Living Longer

Rewire Your Anxious Brain

How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

The Red Queen

Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Enlightenment Now

The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

The Blank Slate

The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Chaos

Making a New Science

The Epigenetics Revolution

How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance

A Brief History of Time

From the Big Bang to Black Holes

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli

The Order of Time

A trip through time with a leading theoretical physicist

This Is Your Brain on Music

Understanding a Human Obsession

America Before

The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization

Outgrowing God

A Beginner’s Guide

The Magic of Reality

How We Know What’s Really True

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

A mind-bending introduction to modern physics

Flow

Elissa Stein and Susan Kim

Flow

The Cultural Story of Menstruation

Pandemic

Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

The Big Picture

On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself

The Female Brain

A Comprehensive New Look at What Makes Us Women

Through the Language Glass

Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

The God Equation

The Quest for a Theory of Everything

Superior

The Return of Race Science

The Science and Technology of Growing Young

An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

A Crack in Creation

Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution