Walter Marsh’s true crime caper "The Butterfly Thief" pieces together several mid-century museum thefts that shook Australia’s leading natural history institutions. In January of 1947, curators at Melbourne’s National Museum of... Read More

Astrobiologist Jon Willis’s "The Pale Blue Data Point" investigates the diverse paths through which scientists have attempted to discover extraterrestrial life. Beginning with the ancient question of the existence of life-forms beyond... Read More

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot’s sweeping history of human encounters with the solar system, is an unconventional, moving account of how Earth’s cosmic neighborhood shaped human existence. A mixture of intertwined... Read More

“When it comes to fungi, art and science often overlap,” Maya Jewell Zeller writes, and that is indeed true of her beautiful, beguiling book "The Wonder of Mushrooms". Fungi are curious: More closely related to animals than plants,... Read More

Challenging the popular conception that asteroid impacts caused the extinction of dinosaurs, "The Last Extinction" is Gerta Keller’s reflection on one of the nastiest controversies in the modern history of the earth sciences. Equal... Read More

De Kai’s urgent book "Raising AI" reflects the ethical impacts of the Artificial Intelligence industry and moral quandaries raised by its influence on public and private life. Drawing an analogy between artificial intelligences... Read More

Evolution’s Iceberg is a foundation-shaking scientific critique that urges reevaluating how people perceive discovery, knowledge, and the narratives that sustain them. Guy Douglas’s precise and provocative science book Evolution’s... Read More

With inquiries grounded in science, spirituality, and Gnosticism, "The Illusion of Death" is a stimulating philosophy text. J. Thomas Devins’s introspective, cross-disciplinary theological book "The Illusion of Death" asks what happens... Read More