{"id":22257,"date":"2025-02-03T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=22257"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:45:10","slug":"new-in-the-collection-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2025\/02\/new-in-the-collection-february-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"New in the Collection (February 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An overview of selected new books in Szil\u00e1rd Library, with a word from their authors, reviewers and publishers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/prob-200x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/prob-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/prob.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44368\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Probably Overthinking It: how to use data to answer questions, avoid statistical traps, and make better decisions (University of Chicago Press 2023)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Allen B. Downey<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor\u2019s office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. There are right and wrong ways to look at numbers, and Downey, blogger, teacher, and computer scientist, will help you see which are which. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/epigen-244x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/epigen-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/epigen.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44364\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Personalized Epigenetics (Academic Press 2024)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Edited by Trygve Tollefsbol<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Fully updated and revised, this new edition details inter-individual variability in the major epigenetic process in humans consisting of DNA methylation, histone modifications, noncoding RNA, and the diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic potential of the field.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/atten-195x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/atten-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/atten.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44361\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Attention Span: finding focus for a fulfilling life (William Collins 2023)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Gloria Mark<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Psychologist Gloria Mark reveals surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention. This book reveals how we can take control, not only to find more success in our careers, but also to find creativity, joy and wellness in our everyday lives.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ethAI-195x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ethAI-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ethAI.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44363\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: principles, challenges, and opportunities (Oxford University Press 2023)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Luciano Floridi<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">This book answers the urgent need for an ethics of AI, and with the original approach it is accessible to readers from any academic background. It offers practical policy recommendations and argues for &#8220;a marriage&#8221; between digital technology and environmentalism.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fung-214x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fung-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fung.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44366\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          What If Fungi Win? (John Hopkins University Press 2024)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Arturo Casadevall<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Humans and fungi share nearly 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we&#8217;re related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist. Dr Casadevall shares how his team is discovering ways to counter these threats.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/age-197x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/age-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/age.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44367\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          How We Age: the science of longevity (Princeton University Press 2023)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Coleen T. Murphy<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Murphy, a leading scholar of aging, explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple invertebrate animals, combined with breakthroughs in genomic methods, have allowed scientists to probe the molecular mechanisms of longevity and aging.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/micr-245x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/micr-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/micr.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44365\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Microbial Biofilms: role in human infectious diseases (Academic Press 2024)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Edited by Mukesh Kumar Yadav, Jae Jun Song, and Jorge E. Vidal<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Microbial biofilms are serious problem in medical settings as they are associated with significant mortality and morbidity. This book explores  the mechanisms of biofilm formation, biofilm-induced pathogenesis, biofilm detection and diagnosis, gene exchange within biofilms, strategies to control microbial biofilms, and the burden of biofilm-associated infections. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tech-199x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tech-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tech.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44370\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Tech Agnostic: how technology became the world&#039;s most powerful religion, and why it desperately needs a reformation (The MIT Press 2024)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Greg Epstein<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Today\u2019s technology has overtaken religion as the chief influence on twenty-first century life and community. Without suggesting we return to a mythical pre-tech past, Epstein shows why we must maintain a freethinking critical perspective toward innovation until it proves itself worthy of our faith or not. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/lost-199x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/lost-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/lost.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44362\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Lost Scientists Of World War II (WSPC (Europe) 2024)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By David C. Clary<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">This book tells the stories of scientists from Germany and other European countries who vanished during World War II. Despite their proficiency, they all sought help from agencies to relocate to the UK in the 1930s, but were unable to secure the necessary assistance.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/vacl-206x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/vacl-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/vacl.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44369\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Materials and Dematerialization: making the modern world (Wiley 2023)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Vaclav Smil<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. The evolving productivities of material extraction, processing, synthesis, finishing and distribution, and the energy costs and environmental impact of rising material consumption are examined in detail, along with the relationship between socio-economic development and resource use, including major technological and innovation aspects. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary \">\n    <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n                <\/h3>\n  <\/article>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention span, the ethics of AI, personalized epigenetics, statistical traps, aging model systems, material consumption &#8211; new arrivals are ready for pick up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8023],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-22257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-new-books"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22825,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257\/revisions\/22825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22257"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=22257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}