Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

6 best books like Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Daniel L. Everett): A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

Author	Robert M. Sapolsky
ISBN	0743202414

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.

“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when...

The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back

Author	Clark Elliott
ISBN	0525426566

The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas
 
 In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial...

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

Author	Lillian Schlissel
ISBN	0805211764

More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are equally...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013

Author	Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN	0544003438

The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2013.

This collection of twenty-seven articles was edited by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a scientist and author of the runaway bestseller “The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”. He did a great job of choosing which ones to include here.

There...

Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins

Author

Ian Tattersall

Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led...

Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity

Author

Christopher Ryan

Progress, the basic illusion of our age, is exhausted. Kids typically no longer expect their lives to be better than their parents’ were. Dystopian scenarios loom ever larger in public consciousness as fisheries collapse, CO2 levels rise, and clouds of radioactive steam billow from “fail-safe”...