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SUMMER BOOKS: FIVE MUST-READS
Our pick of the best science and science-fiction books to read now (even if it’s winter — I see you, Southern Hemisphere):
- In The Song of our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain, physician Haider Warraich explores the neurobiology of pain and why doctors struggle to treat chronic pain effectively.
- “The myth that modern science was invented in Europe is not only false, it is also deeply damaging,” writes historian James Poskett in Horizons, which delves into the 500-year-long history of international science.
- In Slaves for Peanuts, environmental journalist Jori Lewis reveals how French colonizers in what is now Senegal violently promoted the perpetuation of slavery long after it was purportedly outlawed, to keep peanuts and peanut oil flowing.
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal went from an “inattentive, lazy, disobedient, and annoying” child (in the words of a disgruntled teacher) to a Nobel-prizewinning neuroanatomist. A biography by science writer Benjamin Ehrlich paints a vivid picture of Cajal’s life.
- How to Sell a Poison, historian Elena Conis’s complex, disturbing study of DDT, explores how the pesticide’s reputation has swung between public-health hero and environmental villain.
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