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“Bodypedia” is a lively, fact-filled romp through your body, from A to Z. Featuring almost 100 stories on topics ranging from the beastly origins of goosebumps to the definitive answer to the Motown classic “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted,” these fascinating tales from your entrails explore the wonders of anatomy, one body part at a time.
With a keen scalpel, Adam Taor peels away the layers to bring your under appreciated insides to light.
More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports.
But how much do we really know about radiation? And what are its actual dangers? An accessible blend of narrative history and science, “Strange Glow” describes mankind’s extraordinary, thorny relationship with radiation, including the hard-won lessons of how radiation helps and harms our health.
In “The Secrets of Silence,” Shannon Malone Gonzalez investigates how the policing of black women is tied to the policing of their stories.
Over a period of four years, Malone Gonzalez conducted intimate life-history interviews with black women about their encounters, listening to those who had never shared their stories before, had never even been asked to, or had tried repeatedly to speak to those around them to no avail.
They all described the unspoken or whispered connections in the ways officers and communities socially control black women to put them “in their place.”
Author: Joanna Biggs
When author Joanna Biggs’ marriage fell apart, she went to her bookshelf to pick up the pieces. She pulled books by often-considered legendary, well-established figures — women whose names define eras — but Biggs approached them through a more focused, personal lens, searching for how each of them rebuilt their lives and their identities through writing.
The result is “A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again,” published in 2023.
Part memoir-part criticism and full of reflective introspection, Biggs re-examined the works of these women who had shaped her life. Beyond just the literary influences, she wanted to learn how they began again and again after disappointment — like many of us must in our own lives.
These are Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans’s pen name), Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante. As she puts it, the women are all taken down from their pedestals, their work and lives seen in a new light.
Biggs has a chapter dedicated to each of them, offering a nuanced way to dissect the different ways in which these women seemingly rebuilt, re-created and re-claimed their worlds. They each carved out a new life of her own.
As deputy editor of the Yale Review, Biggs has built a distinguished career in literary publishing. She previously worked at the London Review of Books for 15 years and was a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine. Her aforementioned book was a finalist for the 2023 National Award for Arts Writing.
Years prior, in 2017, she co-founded Silver Press, a platform dedicated to publishing feminist writers, demonstrating her commitment to amplifying women’s voices throughout her professional life.
Through their stories in this book, Biggs searches for her own story. The narrative moves between biography and confession, drawing out the moments when these women, too, began again.
She finds strength in their contradictions: Wollstonecraft’s pioneering radicalism, Eliot’s sharp intellect, Hurston’s fierce joy, Woolf’s melancholy and clarity, de Beauvoir’s philosophical rigor, Plath’s engulfing emotional intensity, Morrison’s deep faith in language as liberation, and Ferrante’s vivid portrayal of women’s friendship.
Biggs doesn’t just analyze them; she reads them as companions. We all become friends by the last page.
“A Life of One’s Own” is both an homage and an awakening. At the end of the read, you’ll feel as if you’ve understood all eight authors a bit better — Biggs included as the ninth. And perhaps us readers as the 10th.
Author: DOUGLAS W. SMITH
Hunted to near extinction, wolves evoke a sense of our planet’s dwindling wildernesses. Rather than fear them, we should better understand the crucial role they play in ecosystems throughout the world.
This engaging, fact-filled book shares insights into the family histories, relationships, and significant life challenges of wolves while linking them to broader questions about wildlife conservation and management.
Written by a world-renowned expert in wolf behavior and reintroduction, the book offers a unique perspective on these charismatic animals.
Foreword by Nigel Marvin
Celebrating the artistry of bird photography from around the globe, the “Bird Photographer of the Year” is the leading international bird photography competition, and this gorgeous, large-format book showcases the best images from the contest — some of the most spectacular bird photographs ever taken. A remarkable record of avian beauty and diversity across the globe, the book demonstrates the astonishing skill of bird photographers and the incredible quality of today’s digital imaging systems.
