An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world. Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life but it is also so much more. "Lab Girl" is a book about work, love, and the mountains that...

Toby Tyrrell is professor of Earth system science at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (University of Southampton). A critical examination of James Lovelock's controversial Gaia hypothesis One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that...

"Mission: Mother Earth is the story of an unusual collaboration between the author, a professional geobiologist, and a group of extraterrestrial entities referred to as the Family, which is channeled by an African man named Geema. Under the guidance of the Family, Benishai undertakes a journey to find eighteen high-energy geographical points in Israel, to connect them into a major energy artery of the planet, running from Damascus to Egypt. The activation...