Murray Carpenter offers a high-energy take on modern caffeine culture in Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us.
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In her fourth novel addressing science and medical topics, Permanent Makeup, Terra Ziporyn explores domestic abuse and family relationships.
Excruciating neck pain sent Boston Globe health columnist Judy Foreman scrambling for relief, and gave her new insight into our medical system’s limited ability to help people in pain.
Matthew Bettelheim teamed up with illustrator Nicole M. Wong to write a children’s book about the Lange’s metalmark butterfly, an endangered species found only in one California wildlife refuge. In 1999, the peak butterfly count in a single day totaled 2,342; in 2012, the daily count peaked at 32. Writing the book in verse proved challenging, Bettelheim says, as “not much rhymes with ‘metamorphosis.’”
The unearthing in the 1990s of a cemetery for black slaves in New York City prompted curiosity about a little publicized fact of colonial American life, slavery of blacks in the North. A costly study of human remains from the cemetery yielded little useful information, David Zimmerman asserts.
NASW member Sharon Guynup teamed up with National Geographic photographer Steve Winter to illuminate the lives of the world’s endangered tiger population.
NASW member Steve Nadis and Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau report on the development of novel mathematical concepts at Harvard, and the contribution of Harvard researchers to the shaping of their field.
A passion for biology prompted Teisha Rowland to write on a wide range of biology topics for her local newspaper while still in grad school. Now she’s collected and updated her columns in two books.
Working with a cadaver dog gave Cat Warren new appreciation of law enforcement work, and prompted her to investigate the science of scent.
Suppose wrinkles in space-time could open gateways to other universes. That’s fantasy, but fun to contemplate, says Dennis Meredith, who explores this premise in his latest novel, Wormholes. Meredith self-published the book in both adult and young adult versions, hoping to tap both markets.