Books & Arts in 2016

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

As holiday feasts begin, Laura Lawson surveys the fruitful history of urban farming.

Emma Marris relishes a joyous vision of planetary stewardship over the long haul.

Mike Sharples weighs up a study on the great migration to digital education, from 'flipped' teaching to MOOCs.

Tilli Tansey on how the ruinous trajectory of scurvy marked the age of discovery.

A bedtime story can ignite a lifelong love of science. Nature editors riffle through shelves and memories for favourites old and new.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Roger Schonfeld analyses how the sector's scientific books are faring in the digitized, open-access era.

Alison Abbott hails a memoir from Italian senator and biologist Elena Cattaneo, scourge of pseudoscience.

H. Charles J. Godfray is inspired by the scientific memoir of late island ecologist Ilkka Hanski.

Sue Nelson delights in Dava Sobel's account of a rare band of human computers.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

David Dobbs extols a history of New York's Bellevue hospital, a crucible of discovery in medicine.

Gillian Beer reveals the currents in Lewis Carroll's worlds.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Michael Heneka applauds a sweeping survey of dementia that explores research, diagnosis and care.

Andrew Robinson relishes a new volume on a work that has long defied decoders.

Henry Nicholls relishes a brace of chronicles on how zoos on both sides of the Atlantic came to be.

Brad DeLong examines a study that places the origins of the Industrial Revolution in fifteenth-century Europe.

Sonja-Verena Albers reviews a riveting chronicle tracing the discovery of archaea.