Alien universe: extraterrestrial life in our mind and in the cosmos<\/a><\/p>\n Confessions of an alien hunter: a scientist’s search for extraterrestrial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n Exoplanets: diamond worlds, super Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our solar system<\/a><\/p>\n Out there: a scientific guide to alien life<\/a><\/p>\n We are not alone: why we have already found extraterrestrial life<\/a><\/p>\n Apocalypse<\/strong><\/p>\n Apocalypse when?: calculating how long the human race will survive<\/a><\/p>\n Earth-shattering: violent supernovas, galactic explosions, biological mayhem, nuclear meltdowns, and other hazards to life in our universe<\/a><\/p>\n Surviving the apocalypse in the suburbs: the thrivalist’s guide to life without oil<\/a><\/p>\n Climate Change<\/strong><\/p>\n The conundrum: how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse <\/a><\/p>\n Hack the planet: science’s best hope– or worst nightmare– for averting climate catastrophe<\/a><\/p>\n Our dying planet: an ecologist’s view of the crisis we face<\/a><\/p>\n Tropic of chaos: climate change and the new geography of violence<\/a><\/p>\n When the planet rages: natural disasters, global warming, and the future of the earth<\/a><\/p>\n Extreme weather <\/strong><\/p>\n The 50 most extreme places in our solar system<\/a><\/p>\n Catastrophes!: earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and other earth-shattering disasters<\/a><\/p>\n Extreme weather: understanding the science of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, heat waves, snow storms, global warming and other atmospheric disturbances<\/a><\/p>\n Firestorm: how wildfire will shape our future<\/a><\/p>\n The weather of the future: heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet<\/a><\/p>\n Insects<\/strong><\/p>\n American pests: the losing war on insects from colonial times to DDT<\/a><\/p>\n The American plague: the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history<\/a><\/p>\n Big fleas have little fleas: how discoveries of invertebrate diseases are advancing modern science<\/a><\/p>\n The secret life of flies<\/a><\/p>\n Wicked bugs: the louse that conquered Napoleon’s army & other diabolical insects<\/a><\/p>\n Plague and disease<\/strong><\/p>\n Ebola : the natural and human history of a deadly virus<\/a><\/p>\n The ghost map: the story of London’s most terrifying epidemic–and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world<\/a><\/p>\n Minnesota, 1918: when flu, fire, and war ravaged the state<\/a><\/p>\n Pandemonium : bird flu, mad cow disease, and other biological plagues of the 21st century<\/a><\/p>\n Flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it<\/a><\/p>\n Spillover: animal infections and the next human pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n Pale rider: the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world<\/a><\/p>\n A planet of viruses<\/a><\/p>\n Racism<\/strong><\/p>\n Bad blood: the Tuskegee syphilis experiment<\/a><\/p>\n Is science racist?<\/a><\/p>\n From Darwin to Hitler: evolutionary ethics, eugenics, and racism in Germany<\/a><\/p>\n The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks<\/a><\/p>\n Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present<\/a><\/p>\n Troublesome science: the misuse of genetics and genomics in understanding race<\/a><\/p>\n Bizarre<\/strong><\/p>\n The 7 laws of magical thinking: how irrational beliefs keep us happy, healthy, and sane<\/a><\/p>\n 13 things that don’t make sense: the most baffling scientific mysteries of our time<\/a><\/p>\n AsapSCIENCE: answers to the world’s weirdest questions, most persistent rumors, and unexplained phenomena<\/a><\/p>\n It looked good on paper: bizarre inventions, design disasters, and engineering follies<\/a><\/p>\n Too big to know: rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren’t the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room<\/a><\/p>\n Willful ignorance: the mismeasure of uncertainty <\/a><\/p>\n 2020 has been an unusual year, to say the least. 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