Keeping skin healthy is a booming industry, and yet it seems like almost no one agrees on what actually works. What one person says is vital another says is toxic. We have not cured acne or eczema, allergies keep getting worse, and autoimmune conditions are becoming increasingly common. In Clean, doctor and journalist James Hamblin explores how we got here, examining the science and culture of how we care for our skin today.

Caroline Hirons is the authority in skincare - and for the first time, she’s sharing her knowledge with the world. With more than 100 million views of her blog and more than 13 million views of her YouTube videos, she cuts out the jargon, tells you want you do and don’t need and is finally going to get everyone off face wipes for good!

For decades, the skincare needs of Black women have been ignored. Until now. Dija Ayodele is an expert in Black skin. A pioneer in the beauty industry and one of the UK’s most-respected aestheticians, she places Black women front and centre and offers her vast expertise on how to love the skin you’re in. In this groundbreaking book, Dija takes you through the lifetime of your skin, sharing transformative essentials from how to work out your skin type to the dos and don’ts for your everyday routine.

Caring for your skin is personal, but with hundreds of new products coming to market every year, how can you decide what your skin really needs? And in a world where Caucasian skin dominates clinical trials - but where skin of colour is the global majority - do you know the beautiful science of your melanin? Welcome to Dr Vanita Rattan’s Skin Revolution, where your melanin gets the TLC it deserves.

Flawless skin like the movie stars and models!

Have you avoided treating Black skin, or having your own skin treated due to a lack of skincare confidence for Black skin? If you’ve struggled getting the right care or with caring for Black skin, you’re not alone. According to the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, only four percent of practicing dermatologists identify as Hispanic, and only three percent identify as Black or African descent. Alarming. This lack of understanding for darker skin proliferates beyond the skin health industry. This work is one small but significant step toward rectifying that malady.

Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body - how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted."

Imagine a world without toxic drugs and endless lists of side effects. A world where a revolutionary new technology is used to accelerate healing of virtually all disease and conditions. Imagine red light therapy. Science writer Mark Sloan is the author of three best-selling books and is the creator of a popular blog delivering evidence-based health information which has helped tens of thousands of people get healthy. After losing his mother to cancer at age 12, Mark has committed his life to finding safer and better treatments for cancer and disease.

We all want to have young and healthy skin, yet the beauty industry is so mixed in its messages that most consumers have no way to tell which skincare products are helpful and which claims are pure hype. In this book, skincare expert Dr. Fayne Frey explores the “essential” product categories that are entirely unnecessary, exposes how many well-known skincare ingredients have no scientific basis, and recommends truly effective skincare products and regimens that are easy and affordable.

You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You’re mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you head out the door. So what, exactly, is your immune system? In Immune, Philipp Dettmer, the brains behind the most popular science channel on YouTube, takes listeners on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defenses.

A first-of-its-kind guide that outlines and explains the health-promoting properties of lymphatic massage, featuring five-minute self-massage sequences anyone can do at home.

We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last.

From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: artificial intelligence.

Henry at Work invites listeners to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornful of work and other mundanities. In fact, Thoreau worked hard—surveying land, running his family's pencil-making business, writing, lecturing, and building his cabin at Walden Pond—and thought intensely about work in its many dimensions.

Every year, nearly 80 million Americans will consult their doctors about their skin. Unfortunately, however, the vast majority will receive only a surface-level treatment. Skin doesn't lie; it reflects overall health in unimaginable ways. In The Beauty of Dirty Skin, internationally renowned dermatologist and scientist Dr. Whitney Bowe explains how the spectrum of skin disorders - from stubborn acne and rosacea to psoriasis and premature wrinkling - are manifestations of irregularities rooted in the gut.