Delves into the rich emotional lives of animals, offering compelling arguments for their depth and complexity. De Waal constructs the book around an emotional event involving Mama, a dying 59-year-old chimpanzee matriarch in a Netherlands zoo, who shared a touching goodbye with a human she'd known for many years. This event serves as the foundation for De Waal's exploration of the emotional complexity in animals.

Munroe explores everyday tasks and offers the most scientifically complex (and hilariously impractical) ways to accomplish them. From simple actions like throwing a pool party to larger undertakings such as moving a house, Munroe takes seemingly ordinary problems and delivers extraordinary, scientifically rigorous, and outright absurd solutions.

Bill Bryson embarks on a fascinating journey into the human body, exploring its miraculous workings with his usual blend of humour, eloquence, and wide-ranging curiosity. Bryson treats the human body as if it were uncharted territory, filled with complex landscapes and stunning vistas that are as wonderful to explore as they are crucial to our survival and well-being.

An eye-opening exploration into the systemic discrimination of women due to the gender data gap. Criado Perez exposes how, in a world largely designed by and for men, women are systematically ignored. She delves into multiple domains – from medicine to technology, economics to public policy, and transportation to the urban environment – and illustrates how the lack of gender-specific data can lead to policies, laws, and designs that are less effective and can even endanger women.

A unique exploration into the topic of death, with questions posed by children and answered with equal measures of scientific rigor, cultural context, and respectful humor by Caitlin Doughty. The book consists of various questions, ranging from amusing and strange queries like the titular question "Will my cat eat my eyeballs?" to thoughtful contemplations like "Can Grandma have a Viking funeral?".

Provides an enlightening exploration of the end of the universe as we know it. Through a blend of humor, storytelling, and impeccable scientific knowledge, Dr. Mack guides readers through five plausible theories of how our universe might meet its end, from heat death and the Big Crunch to vacuum decay, the Big Rip, and bouncing cosmology models.

James Nestor takes the readers on an incredible journey to discover the critical, yet often ignored, aspect of our health and wellbeing: our breath. Nestor uncovers the lost art and science of breathing, an aspect of human physiology that has somehow been neglected by modern medicine.

Sheldrake dives deep into the underappreciated and fascinating world of fungi, revealing the profound influence these organisms have on life as we know it. Through the book, the reader is invited to rethink traditional biological concepts and to view the world through the perspective of fungi, which form intricate networks of life beneath our feet.

A significant exploration of race, genetics, and the misconceptions that often surround these subjects. Adam Rutherford's book systematically dismantles the pseudoscience that racists capitalize on to justify prejudice and discrimination.