When written in 2003 Antonio Damasio was a Van Allen Distinguished Professor and Head of the Neurology Department at the Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine and also an Adjunct Professor of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla. (For his other books I’ve read, click on his name.) This was a gift book.  Read more

This book’s predecessor – Does Anything Eat Wasps? – by New Scientist editors of the weekly magazine New Scientist was a surprise publishing sensation of the 2005 holiday season. Both are collections of New Scientist's ‘Last Word’ weekly column, with questions posed by and answered by readers. This was a gift book.  Read more

Greg Craven teaches physics and chemistry at a Corvallis, Oregon, high school. In this book truth or falsity of climate change is secondary to risk analysis – whether to take significant action now or risk the consequences of little to no action now. This, his first book, is a must-read book for everyone!  Read more

Neil Shubin, paleontologist, educated at Columbia, Harvard, and UC Berkeley, is Provost of Chicago’s Field Museum and professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as an associate dean. This book, which has dozens of drawings and photos, was a national bestseller.  Read more

Robert E. Ulanowicz, professor emeritus at University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science, won the 2007 Ira Prigogine Medal from the Wessex Institute and the University of Sienna for outstanding research in the field of ecological systems.  Read more