Ed Yong Popular Books
Ed Yong Biography & Facts
Edmund Soon-Weng Yong (born 17 December 1981) is a British-American science journalist and author. In 2021, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the author of two books: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (2016) and An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2022). Education Edmund Soon-Weng Yong was born on December 17, 1981, in Malaysia. At the age of 13, Yong immigrated to the UK in 1994. He became a British citizen in 2005. Yong was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (promoted per tradition to a Master of Arts) in natural sciences (zoology) from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 2002. He completed postgraduate study at University College London (UCL), where he was awarded a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 2005 in biochemistry. Career Yong's approach to popular science writing has been described as "the future of science news", and he has received numerous awards for his work. Earlier in his career, Yong created and wrote the now-defunct blog Not Exactly Rocket Science, which was published as part of the National Geographic Phenomena blog network. Yong received the National Academies Communication Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 in recognition of his online journalism; in the same year, he received three awards from ResearchBlogging.org, which supports online science journalism focused on covering research that has already been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals that can be adapted for a wider public audience. In 2012 he received the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Stephen White Award. His blog received the first Best Science Blog award from the Association of British Science Writers in 2014. Yong's interactions with other science bloggers and engagement with those who have commented on his blog have served as case studies for academic work in media studies. His work also has been published by Nature, Scientific American, the BBC, Slate, Aeon, The Guardian, The Times, New Scientist, Wired, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. In September 2015, Yong joined The Atlantic as a science reporter. In August 2020, he received the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing's Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, citing his reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and his commitment to including marginalized and underrepresented voices in his writing. In June 2021, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic. Yong left The Atlantic in July 2023. In 2016, Yong released the book, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life which recounts the ubiquitousness of microbes and the relationships microbes have with animals. In 2022, Yong released his second book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, which explores animal perception. The book received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, was featured as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 in June 2022, named by Publishers Weekly as one of the top ten books of 2022, regardless of genre, and awarded the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. Personal life Yong is married to Liz Neeley, a science communicator. They occasionally collaborate on speaking engagements. Yong lived in Washington, D.C. until May 2023, when he and Neeley moved to Oakland, California, where they currently reside. Bibliography Not Exactly Rocket Science. Lulu Press. 2008. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life. Random House. 2016. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. Random House. 2022. References External links Longform podcast, 23 December 2020. "Zombie roaches and other parasite tales", TED talk, 2014. All Stories by Ed Yong at The Atlantic. Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the Ed Yong popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ed Yong books.
Best Seller Ed Yong Books of 2024
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Nell and Ed
SWRLEnhanced audio with music, sound affects and professional actors. "Nell and Ed" is the 25th book in the series of beginning readers from ReadingTeacher.com. New Words in Book...
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Grand
Sara SchaeferEmmy Award–winning writer Sara Schaefer’s hilariously honest memoir follows her “on this wild river descent into the Grand Canyon and her own secret family history. This is a Class...
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Last Days of Summer Updated Ed
Steve KlugerA contemporary American classica poignant and hilarious tale of baseball, hero worship, eccentric behavior, and unlikely friendshipLast Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis...
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Paperweight
Meg HastonThis emotionally haunting and beautifully written young adult debut delves into the devastating impact of trauma and loss, in the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls.Sevent...
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Daughter of Redwinter
Ed McdonaldThose who see the dead soon join them.From the author of the criticallyacclaimed Blackwing trilogy comes Ed McDonald's Daughter of Redwinter, the first of a brilliant fantasy serie...
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When the 49ers Were Kings
Gordon ForbesIn 1979, San Francisco was in turmoil attempting to recover from the assassination of two of its leaders: Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. The troubled city was in ...
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The GERM 2nd Ed.
Karyn Grasse ChenEvery one is frightened by what they don't understand and our littlest members of society have questions about the pandemic. This book provides a great tool to open up the discussi...
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Still Waters in a Storm
Stephen Haff“In my years of experience as a writer and as a college professor, I have never seen anything like this: the love for language, the passion for discussion, clarity of mind, and hum...
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Diary of an Anorexic Girl
Morgan MenzieMorgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder. Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during ...
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Hunger Point
Jillian Medoff“[An] unusually honest, painfully funny novel about a tightknit family’s struggle.” Entertainment Weekly"My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest ...
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For Goodness Sex
Al VernacchioA progressive, effective, and responsible approach to sex education for parents and teens that challenges traditional teaching models and instead embraces 21st century realities by...
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Creepy Crawling
Jeffrey Melnick"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some ...
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I Contain Multitudes
Ed YongNew York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016 NPR Great Read of 2016 Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota ...
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Educating Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Erin E. Barton & Beth HarnAccording to the CDC, one in fifty American children is diagnosed as having an autism spectrum disorder. This means more schoolaged children are entering classrooms with ASDs and t...
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You Know, Sex
Cory Silverberg & Fiona Smyth2023 ALA RAINBOW BOOK LISTWINNER 2023 DOUG WRIGHT AWARDA completely new approach to learning about puberty, sex, and gender for kids 10+. Here is the muchanticipated third book in ...
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High
David Sheff & Nic SheffJust Say Know! With drug education for children more important than ever, this nonfiction book draws on the experiences of the NY Times bestselling father/son team of David an...
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The Art of Starving
Sam J. MillerWinner of the 2017 Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book!“Funny, haunting, beautiful, relentless, and powerful, The Art of Starving is a cl...
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Driver Ed
Eric HowlingLEARNING TO DRIVE CAN BE A WILD RIDE. While the cool kids at Midtown High drive around in hot cars, sixteenyearold Ed Warnicki has to pedal everywhere on his old bike. Tired of bei...
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Lovingly Alice
Phyllis Reynolds NaylorIn this repackaged novel in a beloved series, Alice realizes she has a lot to learn about life!Now that Alice is growing up, she is finding out answers to all sorts of interesting ...
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Freakonomics Rev Ed
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. DubnerThe legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and b...
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Period Power
Nadya OkamotoPERIOD founder and Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silence those who bleedand how to engage in youth activism.Thro...
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Wasted
Marya HornbacherWhy would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friend...
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Mere Mortals
Erin Jade LangeThis hilarious, fresh take on a classic vampire tale follows a pair of hundredyearold teenage vampires who are turned mortal and must face the greatest nightmare of allhigh school....
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Fathoms
Rebecca GiggsWinner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing ...
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The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021
Ed Yong & Jaime GreenNew York Times bestselling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best science and nature writing published in 2020. “The stories I h...
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Thin Girls
Diana ClarkeA dark, edgy, voicedriven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and queerness as well as toxic diet culture and the power of sisterhood, love, and lifelo...
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Acting for the Camera
Tony BarrCulled from Tony Barr's 40 years' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge th...
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Peter Pan and Wendy, Illustrated Ed.
Mabel Lucie AttwellThis edition of the classic tale of adventure, pirates, and never growing up is lavishly illustrated with fullpage, fullcolor images.
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The Self Delusion
Tom Oliver'A thoughtprovoking and worthwhile read' THE TIMES'A timely, challenging book' GUARDIAN'[A] rich, intriguing book' NATUREWE ARE MUCH MORE CONNECTED TO NATURE AND EACH OTHER THAN WE...
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An Immense World
Ed YongNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that w...
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A Trick of the Light
Lois MetzgerTelling a story of a rarely recognized segment of eating disorder sufferersyoung menA Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger is a book for fans of the complex characters and emotional ...
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A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.
Benjamin WaterhouseIn December 1812, I found a schooner fitting out of Salem as a privateer. She had only four carriage guns and ninety men. By the fifth of January, 1813, she was ready to sail and o...
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When Boys and Girls Become Men and Women
Dagmar Geisler & Jörg MüllerA Comprehensive, Fully Illustrated Guide to Our Changing Bodies Kids ask a lot of questions (and that's an understatement). Sometimes the answers are easy for parents to come up wi...
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The Chemistry of Life
Professor Steven RoseFirst published in 1966, THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE has held its own as a clear and authoritative introduction to the world of biochemistry. This fourth edition has been fully updated a...
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Ed and the Sheet
SWRLEnhanced audio with music, sound affects and professional actors. "Ed and the Sheet" is the 28th book in the series of beginning readers from ReadingTeacher.com. New Words in...
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The Legend of Mickey Tussler
Frank NappiIn the late 1940s, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers are foundering yet again and manager Arthur Murphy is desperate. When he sees seventeenyear old Mickey Tussler throwing apples...
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Laughing at My Nightmare
Shane BurcawWith acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw's Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twentyoneyearold with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward h...
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The Hanged Man
Francesca Lia BlockAfter the death of her father, Laurel is haunted by a legacy of family secrets, hidden shame, and shattered glass. Immersing herself in the heady rhythms of a city that is like som...