Information Security: Principles and Practice Third Edition by Mark Stamp, 2025
Provides systematic guidance on meeting the information security challenges of the 21st century, featuring newly revised material throughout Information Security: Principles and Practice is the must-have book for students, instructors, and early-stage professionals alike.
Protein Intake in Health and Disease by Victor R. Preedy, 2025
Proteins are fundamental to human health, serving as building blocks for cellular structures, providing essential energy, and supporting tissue function. In Protein Intake in Health and Disease, the critical biomedical and nutritional roles of protein in the diet are explored in depth.
Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition; A Comprehensive Guide to Essential Nutrients and Nutritional Bioactives; Second Edition by Fay Paxton, 2025
The new edition of Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition provides an essential but detailed guide to the principles of clinical nutrition from a naturopathic perspective.
Metal Ions and the Route to Life by Dr Wolfgang Nitschke & Dr Simon Duval, 2025
Metal Ions and the Route to Life provides the empirical groundwork to interested researchers and the general public for revisiting their preconceived ideas about the origin of life and for appreciating the absolute indispensability of metal ions in life.
Explaining the Earth: An Introduction to the Earth and Its Systems by Paul E. Binns, 2025
In an age where understanding our planet’s changing environments is increasingly vital, a foundational knowledge of the Earth sciences has never been more relevant. Understanding Earth as it was before human influence not only enriches our understanding of the planet’s past, but also informs our view of how it is changing.
Some writing prompts for anyone else like me who struggles with writing #Nonfiction
The Soul of an Octopus : A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery, 2015
This “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans.
I just finished an insightful essay collection by Neema Avashia called "Another Appalachia: Coming up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place." Her parents relocated from India to West Virginia, where she was born and lived until college. The collection is wide ranging, but rooted in that mixed cultural heritage.
O My Friends, There is No Friend by Matt Hern, 2025
The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology
Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world.
The Origin and Early Evolution of Life by Michele Fiore, 2022
Prebiotic Systems Chemistry Perspective
What is life? How, where, and when did life arise? These questions have remained most fascinating over the last hundred years. Systems chemistry is the way to go to better understand this problem and to try and answer the unsolved question regarding the origin of Life.
The Age of Sustainability by Mark Silling, 2020
Just Transitions in a Complex World
With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.
Tea, made from the leaves of the Camellia senenisis plant, is the second most consumed beverage worldwide after water. Accumulating evidence from cellular, animal, epidemiological and clinical studies have linked tea consumption to various health benefits, such as chemoprevention of cancers, chronic inflammation, heart and liver diseases, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, etc.
A Brief History of the End of the Fucking World by Tom Phillips
Science Under Siege by Michael E. Mann, 2025
From pandemics to the climate crisis, humanity faces tougher challenges than ever. Whether it’s the health of our people or the health of our planet, we know we are on an unsustainable path. But our efforts to effectively tackle these existential crises are now hampered by a common threat: politically and ideologically motivated opposition to science.
Turing's Vision: How AI is Shaping the World by Pietro Perconti & Alessio Plebe, 2025
Chat-GPT, humanoid robotics, and self-driving cars are just a few of the things that are changing our everyday lives. The rapid advancement of AI is eroding one by one all the cornerstones considered unique of human nature: language, consciousness, creativity, and moral responsibility.
Eclipsed Suns, the Solar Corona and Exoplanets From Concorde 001 to Telescopes in Space by Pierre Léna, Serge Koutchmy, 2025
This book is a translation of Supersonique Concorde 001, couronne solaire et exoplanètes, published in French in 2023 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of an absolute record, set on June 30, 1973 and never beaten half a century later.
Materiality of Air by Tatiana Konrad, 2025
Exploring air, airborne phenomena, and elemental representation, this book dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises.
Volcanic Unrest
From Science to Society by Joachim Gottsmann, 2019
This open access book summarizes the findings of the VUELCO project. It comprises four broad topics:
1. The global significance of volcanic unrest
2. Geophysical and geochemical fingerprints of unrest and precursory activity
3. Magma dynamics leading to unrest phenomena
4. Bridging the gap between science and decision-making
Knowledge and Networks by Johannes Glückler et al, 2017
Presents a novel theoretical and empirical insight in the geography of knowledge.
Offers an original focus on the intersection of knowledge, social networks and space.
Contributions by leading experts from multidisciplinary perspectives show how space and networks affect processes of learning.
Media Resistance
Protest, Dislike, Abstention by Trine Syvertsen, 2019
New media divide opinion; many are fascinated while others are disgusted. This book is about those who dislike, protest, and try to abstain from media, both new and old. It explains why media resistance persists and answers two questions: What is at stake for resisters and how does media resistance inspire organized action?
