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Published by Ten Speed Press in July 2016, Rachel Ignotofsky's Women in Science is a New York Times bestselling illustrated collection profiling fifty trailblazing women in STEM — from ancient philosopher and mathematician Hypatia to primatologist Jane Goodall and NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson — paired with infographics and a scientific glossary. Critics called it a "wittily illustrated [and] accessible volume," and InStyle named it "the must-read, girl-power STEM book." It is a well-received educational gift book designed for readers from upper elementary through high school, and it stands as a landmark title in the wave of illustrated non-fiction celebrating women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Feb 28, 2026
Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score is a widely-read popular science book on psychological trauma that has earned both broad acclaim and substantive scholarly criticism — essential reading for anyone seeking to understand trauma's reach, but one that deserves to be approached alongside current evidence-based literature.
Feb 20, 2026
No-Drama Discipline is a New York Times bestseller from the co-authors of The Whole-Brain Child that uses neuroscience to help parents move beyond punishment toward connection-first strategies — making it a substantive, research-grounded resource for families navigating the daily chaos of raising children.
Feb 27, 2026
Where the Crawdads Sing is Delia Owens's debut novel — a coming-of-age murder mystery set in the marshes of North Carolina that has sold over 18 million copies since its original publication by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 2018, powered by lyrical nature writing, an emotionally gripping protagonist, and a closing twist that Kirkus Reviews called the novel's "most memorable oddity."
Feb 25, 2026
Christopher McDougall's Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen is a bestselling work of non-fiction that traces the author's journey into the Mexican Copper Canyons to find the reclusive Tarahumara tribe, weaving together adventure narrative, evolutionary science, and a provocative argument about modern running shoes — a combination that has sold over three million copies and spent more than four months on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Feb 22, 2026
First published in 2005 and expanded in a 2016 revised edition from BenBella Books, The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell is one of America's best-selling books about nutrition, making a forceful case that a whole-food, plant-based diet can help people escape, reduce, or reverse a wide range of chronic diseases — a claim that has driven both widespread adoption and sustained scientific debate.
Feb 21, 2026
First published in 1990 and substantially revised in 2013, Jon Kabat-Zinn's Full Catastrophe Living is widely regarded as a defining text in mind-body medicine and the secular mindfulness movement, offering a comprehensive guide to the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program he developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center's Stress Reduction Clinic. The book covers the full eight-week MBSR curriculum — from body scan and mindfulness of breathing to mindful hatha yoga and walking meditation — while also surveying scientific research on the benefits of mindfulness for chronic pain, stress, and illness. With a preface by Thich Nhat Hanh and a scope that spans medical symptoms, emotional disturbance, work pressure, and relationship stress, this revised edition remains the essential reference for anyone serious about mindfulness as a clinical and personal practice.
Feb 23, 2026
Published by Flatiron Books in December 2017, The How Not to Die Cookbook is the practical, recipe-driven follow-up to Michael Greger's New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, delivering more than 120 plant-based recipes for meals, snacks, and beverages designed to help prevent and reverse disease — grounded in Greger's Daily Dozen framework and intended for health-conscious home cooks ready to put science-backed nutrition into action.
Feb 19, 2026
Published by Greystone Books in 2016, The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung — a practicing physician and New York Times bestselling author — argues that obesity is fundamentally a hormonal disorder driven by persistently high insulin levels and insulin resistance, not a simple failure of willpower or calorie counting. The book has become a landmark title in popular nutrition science, and its foreword is written by Timothy Noakes.
Feb 17, 2026
Walter Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 2007, stands as a landmark biography that draws on newly available primary sources to show how Albert Einstein's rebellious, inquisitive personality was inseparable from his scientific genius — a portrait that earned generally positive critical reception from outlets including The Guardian and Physics Today.
Feb 27, 2026
Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness is a New York Times bestselling work of popular psychology that dismantles the assumption that human beings reliably know what will make them happy — and explains, with rigour and wit, exactly why they don't.
Feb 20, 2026
Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Body is a wide-ranging nonfiction guide to physical self-optimization — covering fat loss, exercise, sleep, and sexual performance — that debuted at number one on the New York Times Bestseller List and generated both a devoted following and sharp expert skepticism. This review covers the book's content and published reception; assessments of its practical efficacy are drawn from named sources, not hands-on testing.
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