Rob Dunn

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements.

Shares the known and potential consequences of the changing relationships with nature and interactions with other species and emphasizes the importance of reconnecting with the web of life.

The bananas we eat today aren't our parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out. That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance--once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest,...

How often have you thought to yourself that there has to be more, and that at this point in your life it may be time to discover what that something else is? None of us are getting any younger, and perhaps for some it is time to make that change…that Exit…from the current day to day.This book provides some insight into what an Exit is all about and what it may look like, written by someone who has himself just taken an Exit and moved overseas....

The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart.
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries — which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived — to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost...