Lester R. Brown’s Full Plant, Empty Plates depicts a bleak future caused by growing population pressures and irresponsible resource usage. Warning of impending crisis, his book urges readers to take action now.
Bill McKibben’s Eaarth not only strikingly describes the desolate state our planet is currently in and how it came to be this way, but also prescribes a plan to revert this change for the sake of current and future generations.
In his 2011 book, author Michael Nielsen explores the new potential of Open Science and how the movement will shape the way in which scientists collaborate and approach scientific discoveries.
Ian Stewart’s In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Have Changed the World approaches math from a truly novel perspective, emphasizing the link between math and history. The book appeals to audiences of all backgrounds, even catering to the not-so-mathematically-minded.
In his 2012 book, The Half-Life of Facts, scientist and writer Samuel Arbesman explains how truth changes and how to quantify its decay.
A scientist and photographer argue that humanity is entering into a new age in its relationship with the Earth. Through breathtaking photography and data-filled prose, they implore us to use our creative energies for the betterment of the environment.
The world could end tomorrow. The Doomsday Handbook by Ahok Jia tells how it would all go down, how to prepare ourselves, and how we might prevent it all in the first place.
Charles Clover’s The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat takes the form of a tour around the
Dr. Mark Changizi’s “The Vision Revolution” compares four aspects of human vision to superpowers, highlighting some of the remarkable qualities of our visual systems.
In “The Aha! Moment,” David Jones describes his theory of creativity, focusing on the role of a structure that he calls the “Random Ideas-Generator” and providing examples from his own career.
Mary Roach’s 2003 novel, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, takes a detailed look into the various destinies of post-mortem human bodies, and is extremely accessible despite its morbid subject.
In “Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100,” physicist Michio Kaku grapples with the feasibility of technologies that may become available in the next century, blending technical arguments with a captivating style.