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Top 10 Books Featured on the Inquiring Minds Podcast : The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death, Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump, A Planet of Viruses, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story, Why Dinosaurs Matter, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life

The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
AuthorJohn Bateson
ISBN1501168223
In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek’s Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking cases handled by the coroner of Marin County, California throughout his four decades on the job—from high-profile deaths to serial killers, to Golden Gate Bridge suicides.

Marin County,...
Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
AuthorAllen Frances
ISBN0062394509
A landmark book, from “one of the world’s most prominent psychiatrists” (The Atlantic, June 2017): Eminent psychiatrist Allen Frances analyzes the national psyche, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress. Equally challenging and profound,...
A Planet of Viruses
AuthorCarl Zimmer
ISBN0226983358
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they...
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
AuthorRobert M. Sapolsky
ISBN0805073698
Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with nearly 90,000 copies in print

Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects...
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
AuthorDanna Staaf
ISBN1611689236
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth’s first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act...
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
AuthorAngela Saini
ISBN0807071706
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.

Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini...
Why Dinosaurs Matter
AuthorKenneth Lacovara
ISBN1501120107
What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.

By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of...
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
AuthorKelly Weinersmith
ISBN0399563822
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, an illustrated investigation into future technologies

What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already?

In this book,...
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
AuthorRobert Wright
ISBN1508235406
From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed...
Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
AuthorHaider Warraich
ISBN1250104580
There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today’s modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death...
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
AuthorPaul Bloom
ISBN0062339338
New York Post Best Book of 2016

We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it.

Nothing...
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
AuthorMerlin Tuttle
ISBN0544382277
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.

From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect...
Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
AuthorJudith D. Schwartz
ISBN1250069912
Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation...
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
AuthorMaria Konnikova
ISBN0525427414
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mastermind, a compelling investigation into the minds, motives, and methods of con artists—and the people who fall for their cons over and over again

While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen, true conmen—the Bernie Madoffs, the Jim...
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
AuthorJ. Kenji López-Alt
ISBN0393081087
Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac 'n' cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey...
Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
AuthorMarah J. Hardt
ISBN1137279974
An Oprah.com "Best Book for National Reading Month"

Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome whilst holding their breath; full moon sex...
Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
AuthorM.R. O'Connor
**A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 **
**A Christian Science Monitor Top Ten Book of September**

In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M. R. O'Connor explores...
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
AuthorBeth Shapiro
ISBN0691157057
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From...
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
AuthorSteve Silberman
A New York Times bestseller

Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction

A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.
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Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
AuthorDavid Casarett
ISBN1591847672
A doctor discovers the surprising truth about marijuana

No substance on earth is as hotly debated as marijuana. Opponents claim it's dangerous, addictive, carcinogenic, and a gateway to serious drug abuse. Fans claim it as a wonder drug, treating cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, glaucoma,...
The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat
AuthorAlan Levinovitz
ISBN1941393063
An incendiary work of science journalism debunking the myths that dominate the American diet and showing readers how to stop feeling guilty and start loving their food again—sure to ignite controversy over our obsession with what it means to eat right.

FREE YOURSELF FROM ANXIETY ABOUT...
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
AuthorAdam Alter
ISBN1594206643
Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction—an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three...
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
AuthorAdam Becker
ISBN0465096050
The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe
Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed...
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