BOOKS & AUDIOBOOKS
Dream: The Art & Science of Slumber
Why do struggle to fall asleep? Why do our brains spin up just as they should be winding down? And once we do drift off, why do we dream? In his thoughtful new book, investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney sets out to discover how the waking world reverberates in the sleeping one—and vice versa. You’re not just sleeping, you’re unlocking your immune system, digging deeply into your creativity, and discovering the necessary process that forges both memory and emotions.
Part high-tech neuroscience, part ancient wisdom, this short and elegant book brings us to the realization that we are what we dream. (January 2024). Learn more.
Is There Anybody Out There?
Did you see that? That was just an airplane…right? Journalist Laura Krantz is back with her second book to investigate another age-old mystery: Are we all alone in this vast universe? Krantz looks into reports of UFO sightings, explores the latest and greatest deep-space technology, and interviews scientists who are searching the farthest stars and planets for anything out of the ordinary.
By using the scientific method to help us think critically, readers can explore the possibility of extraterrestrial life, from the single-celled to the big-brained. Even if we never know whether life is out there, Krantz shows why it’s important that we keep the search going and stay curious about our universe.
The Search For Sasquatch
When journalist Laura Krantz discovered that her long-lost cousin, a scientist, had devoted much of his career to the search for Bigfoot, she couldn’t quite believe it. Skeptical but curious, Krantz decided to conduct her own hunt for this most famous and elusive of mythical creatures.
The Search for Sasquatch explores the gray area between myth and science, and asks us to consider the question: Could Bigfoot be out there? This audiobook, narrated by Krantz, takes young listeners on a strange, surreal, and surprising hunt for the fabled Sasquatch, using the scientific method to evaluation the evidence. Listeners will be asked to make up there own minds, and consider why Bigfoot might be important—even if we don’t find him.
The Vortex
In November 1970, the Great Bhola Cyclone killed 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide, and war. Bhola made landfall as Pakistan was on the brink of a historic election. The fallout ignited a conflagration of political intrigue, corruption, violence, and bravery that played out not just in Bangladesh, but also on the world stage, bringing the cold war powers to the brink of nuclear war.
Authors Scott Carney and Jason Miklian take us deep into the story of the cyclone and its aftermath. In this audiobook, narrated by Carney, The Vortex tells a universal tale of resilience and liberation in the face of a climate emergency that affects every person on the planet. Learn more.
The Wedge
Thrive or die: That’s the rule of evolution. Despite this brutal logic, some species have learned to survive in even the most hostile conditions. While incremental genetic adaptations hone the physiology of nearly every creature on this planet, there’s another evolutionary force that is just as important: the power of choice.
This exploration of the human body's potential follows journalist Scott Carney as he searches the globe for people who understand the subtle language of how the body responds to its environment. While investigating the limits of endurance, Carney discovers how humans can wedge control over automatic physiological responses into the breaking point between stress and biology. Learn more.
The Enlightenment Trap
In 2012, thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson's search for spiritual transcendence ended in tragedy on a remote Arizona mountaintop. His wife, a woman anointed as a goddess by an eccentric Buddhist community, held him in her arms as he slowly died from dehydration and dysentery. For Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, Thorson's death was just the most recent iteration of an unspoken epidemic that connected intensive meditation and mental instability. The Enlightenment Trap reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger. Learn more.
What Doesn’t Kill Us
What Doesn't Kill Us, a New York Times bestseller, traces our evolutionary journey back to a time when survival depended on how well we adapted to the environment around us.
Our ancestors lived without what anyone today might consider modern technology. Those feats of endurance now seem impossible, but what if we could regain some of our lost evolutionary strength by simulating the environmental conditions of our forebears? With the help of Dutch fitness guru Wim Hof, investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney takes up the challenge to find out: Can we hack our bodies and use the environment to stimulate our inner biology and push past our perceived limitations? Learn more.
The Red Market
Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads readers on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach’s Stiff, Carney’s The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and child trafficking, raising issues and exposing corruptions almost too bizarre and shocking to imagine. Learn more.