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Aug 20, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kapka Kassabova |Amy Tan |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
A lush ode to “one of the oldest nomadic peoples to have entered modernity with their animals.”A fascinating account of pastoralism in the Balkans.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Ellen Ruppel Shell |Walter Isaacson |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Timothy C. Winegard |Jack Weatherford |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
Sometimes weighed down by too-abundant detail, but a thorough, comprehensive look at the horse across time and space. Everything you ever wanted to know about the genus Equus.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Liao Yiwu |Brittney Griner |Michelle Burford |Francoise Malby-anthony
A pertinent plea against tyranny and an emotional reflection on the need to write in order to remember. A Chinese dissident writer in exile remains hopeful that writing the truth, in spite of official oppression, can topple dictatorship. Imprisoned in 1990 for four years in China for performing two protest poems that “railed against and condemned the Tiananmen massacre,” Liao Yiwu has committed his life to fighting against the Chinese government’s widespread oppression.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Zoë Schlanger |Walter Isaacson |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
A delightful work of popular science. You may never look at your houseplants or garden in quite the same way again. Ambitious attempts to decode the manifest mysteries of plants. Schlanger, a staff reporter at the Atlantic, has followed multiple veins of study on plant life to reveal remarkable discoveries and some potentially revolutionary conjectures. Her passion for the realm of plants—and what their lives tell us about our own—is consistent throughout this wondrous text.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Elizabeth Kolbert |Walter Isaacson |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
An intelligently provocative and well-presented look at the world’s most pressing issue. In this book, Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction and Field Notes from a Catastrophe, adapts articles she wrote for the New Yorker and organizes them alphabetically to offer a brief historical account of climate change.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Daniel Lewis |Walter Isaacson |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
A well-informed, staunch defense of trees’ capacity to multiply biodiversity and support life on Earth. The lifestyles of 12 magnificent trees conveyed through science and history. Lewis, author of The Feathery Tribe, could not have chosen a group of trees more biologically and culturally fascinating than this variously endangered dozen.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Adam Welz |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley |Betsy Maestro
A heartwarming and inspiring story for animal lovers. The third volume in the Elephant Whisperer series. In this follow-up to An Elephant in My Kitchen, Malby-Anthony continues her loving portrait of the Thula Thula wildlife reserve, which she co-founded in 1998 with her late husband, South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony, who published the first book in the series, The Elephant Whisperer, in 2009.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Ferris Jabr |Walter Isaacson |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Philip Ball |Walter Isaacson |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
A bold effort to create a new language that forces a “rethinking” of “thinking itself.”Generating a new language for the book of life. Life is not all about tidy genetic blueprints; it is influenced by "messy and capricious" elements so many levels that genes are “just ingredients for creating a palette of...possibilities,” writes Ball, a former longtime editor at Nature and author of many books about science and nature.
