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Coming in March 2017, a new book by Lawrence Krauss, The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?, looks interesting.

Coming at the end of February 2018, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker. Here is a review by Bill Gates:

Thank you. Love Pinker.

The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences by Daniel M. Davis released in the UK this weekend and early reviews look very promising.

Betsy wrote: "Coming at the end of February 2018, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker. Here is a review by Bill Gates:

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Earlier this month, I heard Steven Pinker give a talk about his new book, at the Cato Institute. He comes off as a very soft-spoken, humble person. Not exactly what I anticipated. I haven't read his book yet, but I think that he quickly flipped through all 75 of the charts in the book.

The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job was just released. Some could argue it's about engineering, not science, however, what is it designed and engineered to do? And the author is working on a sequel that will focus on the science of the mission, so it's likely that one would want to read this first. I read the following review and decided to get it for my next read.

Carl Zimmer has a new book coming out in March 2021 -- Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. About what constitutes life. There's a giveaway for the book that runs during February. But there are only 15 copies available, so act quickly.

I'm definitely looking forward to the following books:

-Brake/Chase's "The Science of Jurassic World: The Dinosaur Facts Behind the Films" ( ): I always enjoy a good "science of" (especially when it comes to dino-related media, hence my many reviews of day-in-the-life dino books) & this book is apparently part of a whole series.* The authors aren't dino experts, but they do seem to have a lot of experience researching the "science of" sci-fi.

-Fastovsky/Weishampel's "Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History" ( ): The 3rd edition came out in 2016, so this edition is a long time coming. As you may remember, Fastovsky/Weishampel's book is 1 of the best natural histories of dinos for adults ( ). IDK how different the interior art is, but the new cover art is very nice.

-Dingus' "AMNH The Dinosaur Hunters: The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery of Prehistoric Life" ( ): AFAIK, the AMNH has published more/better popular dino books than any other dino museum.** This book's content reminds me of Naish's The Great Dinosaur Discoveries, while its aesthetic reminds me of Norell's The World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour.

-Brusatte's "The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals" ( ): This book is a "junior edition" of "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" ( ). As you may remember, the latter is good, but has some problems that keep it from being great ( /review/show... ). Hopefully, those problems won't be problems in this book.

*So far, I've reviewed Bakker's "Maximum Triceratops" ( /review/show... ), Zoehfeld's "Dinosaur Parents, Dinosaur Young: Uncovering the Mystery of Dinosaur Families" ( /review/show... ), Waldrop/Loomis' "Ranger Rick's Dinosaur Book" ( /review/show... ), Martin's "Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils" ( /review/show... ), "Zoobooks Zoodinos Tyrannosaurus Rex" ( /review/show... ), Henry's "Raptor: The Life of a Young Deinonychus" ( /review/show... ), Lauber's "How Dinosaurs Came to Be" ( /review/show... ), & Cooley/Wilson's "Make-A-Saurus: My Life with Raptors and Other Dinosaurs" ( /review/show... ).

**So far, I've reviewed Norell et al.'s "Discovering Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory, Expanded and Updated" ( /review/show... ), Abramson et al.'s "Inside Dinosaurs" ( /review/show... ), Norell's "The World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour" ( /review/show... ), & Lach's "I Am NOT a Dinosaur!" ( /review/show... ).

In reference to my previous post, here's some more dino books to look forward to:

-Black's "The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World" ( )

-Chuang/Yang's "Age of Dinosaurs (Pnso Field Guide to the Ancient World)" ( )

-Naish's "Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore" ( )

Coming toward the end of September 2021, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker.

Betsy wrote: "Coming toward the end of September 2021, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker."

Thanks for the advance notice, Betsy. Stephen Pinker is one of my favorite authors. I've placed it on hold at my library.

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach is supposed to be out on 14 Sep.

Two of my favorite authors ... I'll be on the lookout for these!

Coming in August 2022, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot looks interesting.

Here is a review in the Guardian:

Ed Yong's new book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us releases this month

An excerpt:

Siddhartha Mukherjee (The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer) has a new book coming out October 25. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human is his third book. Here is a NYT review of the new book:

Thanks to Abby for notifying us that David Quammen has a new book coming out October 3, about coronavirus. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus.

Looks really interesting. I'll probably be getting it as soon as my library offers the kindle version.

Here's some more dino books to look forward to:

-Barrett's "A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils" ( ): For those who don't know, I reviewed the 1st edition of Naish/Barrett's "Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved" ( /review/show... ). Based on Amazon's description, the new book sounds very similar (I.e. An adult natural history "divided into themed sections, beginning with dinosaur ancestors before introducing all the major dinosaur groups and moving on to[...]feeding, distribution, locomotion and behaviour. The final section focuses on the first fossil birds including the legendary Archaeopteryx"). Since both books are NHM ( ), I'm guessing there's some major difference so that they don't compete for the exact same audience.

-Hone's "Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know" ( ): For those who don't know, I reviewed Hone's "The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs" ( /review/show... ). Based on Hone's description (especially of the illustrations), the new book seems to be even better. At the very least, it should be better than Benton's "Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide" (which is very well illustrated, but not-so-well written/fact-checked :-\ ).