B Reviews / Book Reviewsabuse / crime / law-enforcement / murder / non-fiction / police / Rape / scienceComments Off on REVIEW: Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black
From the author of All That Remains, a tour through the human skeleton and the secrets our bones reveal. In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsbehavior / dinosaurs / evolution / fossils / non-fiction / paleontology / science2 Comments
Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures—how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / dinosaurs / Historical / metaphor / moral lesson / POC author / science / Speculative-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: The Cretaceous Past by Cixin Liu, translated by Elizabeth Hanlon
All the years of human civilization represent an infinitesimal fraction of the time since life first burgeoned on planet Earth. How likely is it, then, in those great depths of time, that humanity alone benefitted from the spark of intelligence which gave rise to culture? This is the question posed ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ Reviewschemistry / non-fiction / POC author / scienceComments Off on REVIEW: Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
A whirlwind romp through everyday science, perfect for fans of How Stuff Works, Stuff You Should Know and Netflix’s Explained. In this quirky and endlessly surprising book, scientist and award-winning YouTuber Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim tells us about the amazing science behind everyday things (like drinking water,) and not-so-everyday things ... more >
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Packed with wild art and mind-blowing space facts, this book proves how awesome the universe is—and that space is for everyone. From astrophysics to rocket science to the future of space exploration, Space Is Cool as F*ck explains everything you thought you’d never understand about the universe in plain-old filthy ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsarcheology / History / non-fiction / paleontology / scienceComments Off on REVIEW: Kindred – Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. ... more >