RaveThe Wall Street Journal\"In his fascinating new book, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live, Mr. Dunn brings a scientist’s sensibility to our domestic jungle by exploring the paradox of the modern home ... Mr. Dunn is a fine writer, wringing poetry out of the microbial explorations of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who spent half the 17th century documenting all the tiny living things around him ... Mr. Dunn also gracefully explains, without getting bogged down in details, the technology that has allowed scientists during the past decade or so to sequence the DNA of millions of previously unknown microbes, making his book an excellent layperson’s guide to cutting-edge research.\
Rebecca Skloot
RaveThe New York Times Sunday Book ReviewRebecca Skloot introduces us to the ‘real live woman,’ the children who survived her, and the interplay of race, poverty, science and one of the most important medical discoveries of the last 100 years. Skloot narrates the science lucidly, tracks the racial politics of medicine thoughtfully and tells the Lacks family’s often painful history with grace … Science writing is often just about ‘the facts.’ Skloot’s book, her first, is far deeper, braver and more wonderful … She tacks between the perspective of the scientists and the family evenly and fairly … The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is much more than a portrait of the Lacks family. It is also a critique of science that insists on ignoring the messy human provenance of its materials.
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