Books

Our overreliance on the simplicity of game logic explains why capitalism got out of control

Rats as you’ve never seen them; the journey of restoring a garden; stories from a “post-Impact” future

A stunning photography collection underlines how climate change is altering the world’s coastal and lakeside environments

A physicist, a philosopher and a psychologist are working together to bring better, smarter decision-making to the masses

In a new book, the wisdom of plants is a balm for our changing planet

A novel about the tensions between nature and modernity, animal social networks, and more books out now

Here are seven fiction and nonfiction books we recommend from the past few months. They involve broken hearts, killer robots and epic failed experiments

Chicken takeovers, the missing histories of silk, a dazzling memoir of gravity, and more books out now

In a dark thriller, a sexbot questions her owner's demands for love

New insights into why animals play, how to hunt an asteroid, and more books out now

Seventy-one essays of science trivia, from duck penises to hangover myths

Plutonium-pit secrets, growing up in parallel universes, the strange aftermath of a fictional wildfire, and more books out now