The idea of an inner voice is something we are used to living with. Some examples include Big Data: Does Size Matter? by Timandra Harkness, Imagining the Future: Invisibility, Immortality and 40 Other Incredible Ideas by Simon Torok and Paul Holper and The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly. Technology and the future can provide hopeful or bleak visions of the future.

Some good examples being Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction by Helen Pilcher, Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew by John Pickrell and The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs by David Hone. These include histories such as Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder by Greg de Moore and Ann Westmore, questions of diagnosis in ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic by Alan Schwarz and biographies such as Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich.ĭinosaurs and the study of extinctions are always fascinating. Psychology and the brain are always areas of rich development. With so many good reads it wasn't an easy task.Įach year I explore what's new and what's interesting in the world of popular science books for my blog, Science Book a Day. Need a good book for the holidays? We asked book blogger Dr George Aranda to nominate his top five science books published in the last year.

Bring Back the King by Helen Pilcher