BOOK REVIEWThe Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant, Its Nature and Ecologyby Eric Lee-Mäder & Beverly Duncan (Illustrator), publication date September 26, 2023 About the Author and IllustratorEric Lee-Mäder is the Pollinator Program Co-Director at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, and co-owner of Northwest Meadowscapes, a native seed farm located on Whidbey … Continue reading The Milkweed Lands
The Secret Language of Cells
BOOK REVIEWThe Secret Language of Cells: What Biological Conversations Tell Us About the Brain-Body Connection, the Future of Medicine, and Life Itselfby Jon Lieff 2022 About the AuthorJon Lieff, MD, brings to bear 40 years as a nationally recognized neuro-psychiatrist, during which he was president of a national medical subspecialty organization, founded a major scientific … Continue reading The Secret Language of Cells
War By Other Means
BOOK REVIEWWar By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistanceby Daniel Akst 2022 About the AuthorDaniel Akst was a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He has been a Koret Fellow at the University of California (Berkeley) Graduate School of Journalism, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson … Continue reading War By Other Means
The Leak
BOOK REVIEWThe Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratoryby Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond 2022 About the AuthorsRobert P. Crease is Professor in and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, where he has taught for more than three decades. He is the author of The … Continue reading The Leak
How the West Brought War to Ukraine
BOOK REVIEWHow the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastropheby Benjamin Abelow 2022 About the AuthorBenjamin Abelow has worked in Washington, DC, writing, lecturing, and lobbying Congress about nuclear arms policy. He holds a B.A. in modern European history from the … Continue reading How the West Brought War to Ukraine
Hitler’s Trojan Horse
BOOK REVIEWHitler's Trojan Horse: The Fall of the Abwehr, 1943–1945by Nigel West 2023 About the AuthorNIGEL WEST is an intelligence expert and critically-acclaimed author. Such is his depth of knowledge in these fields that The Sunday Times noted that, 'His information is often so precise that many people believe he is the unofficial historian of … Continue reading Hitler’s Trojan Horse
Bioverse
BOOK REVIEWBioverse: How the Cellular World Contains the Secrets to Life's Biggest Questionsby William B. Miller Jr. 2022 About the AuthorWilliam B. Miller, Jr. M.D., is a consultant and science writer specializing on the microbiome. After a career in practicing medicine, Dr. Miller became fascinated by evolution upon seeing Sue, a T-Rex skeleton housed in … Continue reading Bioverse
