Dr. Brian Wansink
From the title, you’d never guess this book is a laugh riot. After reading an interview in Salon the Dr. Wansink, I had to read the book. Wansink and his lab study why humans overeat. Packed with great anecdotes, Wansink gives a behind-the-scenes look of his research. …
Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D.
This strange combo of a TV writer and a ER medical doctor came up with their “ticket to fame” – a book filled with questions “You’d only ask a doctor after your third martini.” Goldberg and Leyner answer a slew of questions – from …
Patrick Mauries
After reading Preston and Child’s Cabinet of Curiosities, I couldn’t resist finding out more about cabinets of curiosities (the precursor to the modern museum). This gorgeous, weird book is a history of the cabinets and their weird contents – everything from sculpture, to shells and minerals, fake …
