Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body

Taking us through a typical day, from the arousal of the senses to hunger, fatigue, stress, sex, the reverie of sleep and dreams, this book explores the new science of what happens in the body. At once entertaining and deeply practical, it reveals the body as we've never seen it: busy, cunning, miraculous. (MORE... )

Selected as:

• an"Editors' Choice" by The New York Times
• a "new and notable book of scientific interest" by Science News
• a main selection by the Scientific American Book Club

"An enthusiastic tour through 24 hours in the life of a typical human body. . . .[an] illuminating and hospitable book." — Kyla Dunn,

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"A readable and remarkably comprehensive tour of all that is new and intriguing in the study of human physiology."  — Abigail Zuger, MD, The New York Times Science Times MORE

"Engaging, eloquent, and accessible." — New Scientist

"An insightful text celebrating just how clever is the machine we call the human body."  — Kirkus Reviews 

Offers fascinating insight into the workings of our often inscrutable bodies." — Bookpage  

"Provide[s] a steady stream of interesting information" — Publisher's Weekly  

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Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity

A startling new message has emerged lately about human heredity. Scientists probing the deep workings of organisms have discovered that all living things, from yeasts to worms to humans, are guided by similar genes and proteins, which have passed down nearly intact for hundreds of millions of years. Both personal memoir and cutting-edge science, this book offers an encompassing vision of the impact of these shared gifts on our everyday lives. (MORE...)

"Fascinating…tying together the famous and the forgotten, the microscopic and the vast."— New York Times Book Review

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Notes From The Shore

An exploration of the natural life of the mid-Atlantic coast—the sort of blue-water, white-sand landscape that draws summer crowds up and down the eastern seaboard—this book takes the reader on journey to the ocean’s edge, to view the habits of shorebirds, the movement of sand and water, the wealth of creatures that survive amid storm and surf. (MORE... )

“The alchemy of art with solid science” — Edward Hoagland

“Arresting and provocative, a joy to read" — The Washington Post

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