New York Times investigative reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the edge of scientific discoveries to explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.

Philosophers, theologians, artists, and boy bands have waxed poetic about the nature of love for centuries. But what does the brain have to say about the way we carry our hearts? What is love and why does it torture, delight, and transform us so? In the wake of a divorce, science writer and single mother Kayt Sukel made herself a guinea pig in the labs of some unusual love experts to find out.

Japan’s Tipping Point is a small book on a huge topic. A developed country that must import all of its fossil fuel, Japan can no longer rely on nuclear power, following the massive earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011. Author Mark Pendergrast arrived in Japan exactly two months after the Fukushima meltdown to investigate Japan’s renewable energy, Eco-Model Cities, food policy, recycling, and energy conservation, expecting to find innovative, cutting-edge programs.

Zhuikov is an award-winning writer and poet in Duluth, Minn. specializing in environmental and medical topics. In her eco-mystic romance novel Eye of the Wolf, she explores the population issues facing the wolves on Isle Royale National Park, a remote island in Lake Superior.