New Nonfiction
ConsumerLab.com's guide to buying vitamins and supplements: what's really in the bottle?
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt.
Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives - how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of...well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.
Invisible allies: microbes that shape our lives by Jeanette Farrell.
Usually, microbes are equated with disease, but in fact most microbes are actually our allies. Learn how the microbes that are everywhere around us help us to survive every day.