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An examination of the toxic rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, a uniquely integrative perspective on mindfulness, and a judicious guide to the world’s most intractable dispute top the list of best-selling religion books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

A synthetic overview of drought; a lively, behind-the-scenes tour of weather forecasting; and a vivid account of the blossoming relationship between mathematics and our understanding of reality top the list of best-selling physics books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

A history of silence as a shaper of the human mind, a study of the ways a pursuit of rationality often leads to irrationality, and a biography of a philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world top the list of best-selling philosophy books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 

A fascinating exploration of human and animal emotions, a bold study of the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species, and a look at the ways in which sight has evolved and is used in the natural world top the list of best-selling botany and zoology titles, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

In this inaugural #LibrarianRecs column, we compile crowd-sourced book recommendations for readers who can't get enough of John Carpenter's The Thing, Ridley Scott's "Alien" franchise, and Netflix's Black Mirror and Stranger Things series. Dive deep, fans of body horror, technothrillers, space monsters, and dark fantasy!

Every December, this column gathers the reading (and listening) pleasures of a group of librarians, each willing to share one of the books that brought them great satisfaction in the year nearly gone. 

A data-driven model explaining how those things that make us most human are constructed during the first six years of life, a guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, and a sourcebook detailing the the 10 personality disorders top the list of best-selling psychology books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

These 34 titles help patrons understand  the experiences of immigrants, migrants, and refugees through memoirs, documentaries, and novels.

An argument for the importance of plural language, a history of the art of persuasive speech, and a study of the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad top the list of best-selling language books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.