{"title":"Alex Riley","description":"Alex Riley is an award-winning science writer living in Bristol, UK. His work has been published by Aeon Magazine, the BBC, The Guardian, PBS's NOVA Next, and New Scientist, among others. In 2019, he received a best feature award from the Association of British Science Writers for his reporting on The Friendship Bench, a project that provides mental healthcare to low-income communities in Zimbabwe and has been adopted in countries around the world.","products":[{"product_id":"a-cure-for-darkness-the-story-of-depression-and-how-we-treat-it-paperback","title":"A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fascinating, \"rich, and generous\" (Financial Times) look at the treatment of depression by an award-winning science writer that blends popular science, narrative history, and memoir.Is depression a persistent low mood, or is it a range of symptoms? Can it be expressed through a single diagnosis, or does depression actually refer to a diversity of mental disorders? Is there, or will there ever be, a cure? In seeking the answers to these questions, Riley finds a rich history of ideas and treatments--and takes the reader on a gripping narrative journey, packed with fascinating stories like the junior doctor who discovered that some of the first antidepressants had a deadly reaction with cheese. \"Interweaving memoir, case histories, and accounts of new therapies, Riley anatomizes what is still a fairly young science, and a troubled one\" (The New Yorker). Reporting on the field of global mental health from its colonial past to the present day, Riley highlights a range of scalable therapies, including how a group of grandmothers stands on the frontline of a mental health revolution. Hopeful, fascinating, and profound, A Cure for Darkness is \"recommended reading for anyone with even a peripheral interest in depression\" (Washington Examiner).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369340502239,"sku":"9781501198786","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rP3c8NlVpt9781501198786.webp?v=1789140673"},{"product_id":"super-natural-how-life-thrives-in-impossible-places-hardcover","title":"Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear hostile to life--yet where, nevertheless, life flourishes. In North American forests, wood frogs awaken each spring from solid blocks of ice. Under the Saharan sun, shielded by silvery hairs, desert ants sprint through the midday heat that is lethal to any other animal. At the bottom of ice-covered lakes, painted turtles pass months without breathing oxygen. Transporting readers to far-flung environments we could never call home, in \u003cem\u003eSuper Natural\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning science writer Alex Riley paints an awe-inspiring portrait of life's remarkable resilience even under the harshest circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiley illuminates ecosystems on every continent to tell the stories of creatures exquisitely adapted to endure unimaginable deprivations--of water, oxygen, food, sunlight--and extremes of heat and cold, of pressure and altitude. To survive half a year without food on barren islands, snakes will shrink and regrow their digestive systems--even their hearts. At the site of the Chernobyl disaster, fungi harness radiation to thrive. Evolution, we see, can and will carve out a niche just about anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eSuper Natural\u003c\/em\u003e shows us how, at nature's furthest limits, the rules of biology as we know them are rewritten--and how, in life's astonishing ingenuity and persistence even in the face of calamity and change, we can find hope for the future of life on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376912072927,"sku":"9781324079187","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KdYYWZKjLd9781324079187.webp?v=1789228937"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alex-riley.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}