WRY LOOK AT GENETICS researchers’ appeal to our yen to know more about our family histories and health future.

HEARTFELT MEMOIR OF food, family, and love in exile (in Tehran, Santa Cruz, and Paris); yummy Persian recipes!

INSIDE CUBA TODAY with a pioneering dissident blogger; insightful and moving prose in unobtrusive translation.

A THOUGHTFUL INVESTIGATION into the mythology of the chupacabra provides context for the legend’s how and why.

THE HISTORY AND FUTURE of urban planning outlined with wit and grace in this informative, highly readable book.

CHILLING INVESTIGATIVE PROFILE of 2001’s anthrax attacks via US mail, and of the FBI’s (now dead) prime suspect.

FASCINATING LOOK AT recent neuroscience around attention, and its synergies with technology and education.

A POET’S MEMOIR of life with severe food allergies is more impressionistic than self-help, but insightful, wry.

A HEADLINE-GRABBING MURDER in 1933 Paris, examined in depth, illuminates the culture and politics of the era.

A NAIVE AMERICAN TEEN’S days of revolution-chasing in 1980s South America revisited in a rueful, witty memoir.