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What’s Killing Us:  A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems. By Alanna Shaikh. Published by TED Books, 2012.

Reviewed by Tom Levenson

August 23, 2012

Continue reading “Death and Other Options: How To Think (Hopefully!) About Global Health”

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

Deep Water: As Polar Ice Melts, Scientists Debate How High Our Oceans Will Rise. By Daniel Grossman. Published by TED Books, 2012.

Guest reviewed by John Dupuis

August 15, 2012

Continue reading “Deep Water: A Pretty Good TED Ebook (Really!) About Climate Change”

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

Space Nutrition. By Scott M. Smith, Janis Davis-Street, Lisa Neasbitt, and Sara R. Zwart. Published by NASA Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory.

Reviewed by Veronique Greenwood

August 14, 2012

Continue reading “Interplanetary Cuisine”