🧵 I'll share a number of pop sci books 🧪 📚 that have been released in the past three weeks, most from this week. Support these great authors! 1/n
Available as of yesterday is What We Didn't Expect: Personal Stories about Premature Birth, edited by @m_scribe.

My non- preemie 10lb (!) first born ended up in NICU for 8 days w/patent ductus arteriosus. I could relate to these moving stories. ❤️

https://amzn.to/3kmICm4 
Hope there's a section on zooming lab classes! 😀
Out yesterday is The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching by @hormiga

https://amzn.to/3eReGgM 
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by @pgodfreysmith hit the shelves yesterday.

Recognize the author? He also wrote Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

https://amzn.to/32zzMvc 
So excited to read this!

Out yesterday

The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past by Meave Leakey and Samira Leakey

https://amzn.to/3lyyt7e 
Out yesterday by @KermitPattison is Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

Looks like a great tale!

https://amzn.to/2JYyVxX 
Available as of Oct 27 is World Wild Vet: Encounters in the Animal Kingdom by @EvanAntin

Posing with a giant lizard = winning!

https://amzn.to/3llqcnn 
Can't go wrong with a John Glenn biography. Available as of Nov 3.

The Last American Hero: The Remarkable Life of John Glenn by Alice L George @Alicelgeorge

https://amzn.to/2GRhCO1https://amzn.to/2GRhCO1
100 years from the Apollo moon landing!

Available as of Oct 13 is Space 2069: After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars … and Beyond by @drdwhitehouse

https://amzn.to/3pniU50 
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens. Available as of October 13

https://amzn.to/2IpVsTu 
Sliding back to August 25, here is a book by ecologist @Enric_Sala, connecting human health and nature, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild

https://amzn.to/2IqNXMt 
And, going back to June 30, here is a book by Phillip K. Peterson, Microbes: The Life-Changing Story of Germs

https://amzn.to/2JQ1r4C 
I love listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer's beautiful voice narrating her extraordinary writing about nature. I am so pleased to now have this lovely edition of Braiding Sweetgrass from @Milkweed_Books

Engaging with her writing is healing. I recommend.
https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass
This special edition hit the shelves on Oct. 13.
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