Elizabeth Bastos

Discover the truth about animal behavior through the joyride that is Lucy Cooke's The Truth About Animals and you will learn that early scientists thought beavers bit off their own balls.

On Daniel H Pink's new book WHEN, which explains the chronobiology of mid-day, mid-life, and mid-task slumps (with tips for overcoming them).

How do you define personal style? How do you find it? These books might help you along your way to finding your personal style.

Let's birdwatch instead of mammal watch, because that involves too much poop.

Women science and nature writers are writing nature and science memoir mashups that are personal and fun and science-rich.

Seems like books about mushrooming, mushrooms, and the people who love fungus like to expose the strange, subterranean aspects of mushrooms and mushrooming culture. 

Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life victorian era science books about geology and george eliot

"Nothing happens except that a necklace is lost. A necklace is found. And there is imperceptible, powerful growing up." On CRISS CROSS by Lynne Rae Perkins.

"I'm not a traditionally religious person, but Peterson's Field Guide to The Atlantic Seashore is scripture for my kind of faith..."

We talk about the Kondo Method in The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up & Empire of Things, connecting minimalism with a desire to be surrounded by things.

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

For the first time in my adult life I live in a house. Granted, I don’t own it; I live ...

Economist Marc Levinson’s The Box: How The Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is well outside ...

There are writers who can write a plot line like nobody’s business, who pull you along like a fish on ...

Earlier this year James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird won The Morning New‘s Tournament of Books. In addition it has won my ...