What We Are Reading Today: In Covid’s Wake

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Updated 16 March 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: In Covid’s Wake

Authors: Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee

The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world’s population were living under quarantine.

People were told not to leave their homes; businesses were shuttered, employees laid off, and schools closed.

The most devastating pandemic in a century and the policies adopted in response to it upended life as we knew it.

In this book, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine our pandemic response and pose some provocative questions.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Dinosaur Facts and Figures’

Updated 01 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Dinosaur Facts and Figures’

Authors: Ruben Molina-Perez and Asier Larramendi

The sauropod dinosaurs roamed the planet for millions of years, with creatures ranging from the smallest of the sauropods, Magyarosaurus, to the huge Argentinosaurus.

This illustrated book is an essential compendium of sauropod facts and figures — from the biggest and the oldest to the smallest and the rarest.

It covers every known species and features more than 2,000 diagrams and technical drawings along with hundreds of full-color reconstructions of specimens.