Category: Book Reviews

If you are even slightly curious about the immune system or about science in action, pick up The Compatibility Gene by Daniel M. Davis. The book gives a good, thorough overview of the history of …

In United States History class, children are taught that Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas under the patronage of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Though much is written of …

In this collection, Dragons, Riders of Berk: Dangers of the Deep, the village of Berk is endangered when their main source of food is mysteriously cut off. Hiccup and the gang try to find where …

In The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites Libby O’Connell provides a look at America’s past as seen through its foods. Each “bite” is one short entry focusing on a particular food or …

On the rungs of literature snobbery novels rank high; novellas are close enough that it matters; poems are unstable staples; novelizations are just posers. Novelizations are condensed stories based off of a show, movie, or video …

It is rare for me to fall so headlong in love with a book that I forsake the stack of all other review books sitting next to me and finish the one in my hand: …

The barbed wire net has been lifted, oh horror game fans, for the secrets of Beacon Mental Hospital. Three detectives enter an asylum and then are swept into a dark world where they must survive …

Most know the philosopher Aristotle for exactly that: Philosophy. Extremely prolific in the art of thought and self-exploration, it is a shame Aristotle is not also known for his other interest: Biology. In an era …

Psychic Detective Nancy Myer was hoping beyond hope when she got the horrible feeling in her gut that her father was about to die. When she received the phone call that he had passed from …

Mark Crislip is not your average Infectious Disease Doctor (ID for short). In order to make sense of his life and the many papers he read for his work, Crislip began a blog online to …