Spring Books

Gregor Macdonald applauds a biography of prescient geologist and energy theorist Marion King Hubbert.

Sheila Rowan ponders a chronicle of the long road to gravitational-wave detection.

Douwe Draaisma is intrigued by a study examining both 'the voice within' and verbal auditory hallucinations.

Highlights of this season's releases

Jennifer Light savours the history of a doughty band of 'human computers'.

Lori Andrews assesses Henry Greely's treatise on how technology will oust reproductive intimacy.

Alan Thorpe enjoys a hymn to some of the founders of the science and institutions of weather forecasting.

Stuart Pimm enjoys a fellow naturalist's first visit to sub-Saharan Africa, and the global lessons drawn from it.

Maryn McKenna finds much to digest in a warning about the demise of our bodily bacteria.

Scott Barrett examines a study probing the nexus between climate change and energy.

Robert Lue enjoys a deft study of online pedagogy.

Chris Nelder relishes a lively history of fracking that delves into the complexities.

Highlights of this season's releases

Nathaniel Comfort applauds a nuanced history of genetic engineering's early years.

Giovanna Mallucci assesses the autobiography of Stanley Prusiner, the discoverer of prions.

Anjan Chatterjee probes a cognitive-enhancement primer.

Highlights of this season's releases.

Philip Ball gets under the skin of a treatise on the brain as an analogy machine.

Michael Pollan's latest book will be eaten up by the conscious consumers he created, says Nathan Myhrvold.

Pedro Ferreira ponders a vision of the Universe in which time is paramount.