Also of interest…

Cribsheet

by Emily Oster (Penguin, $28)

Emily Oster’s parenting advice is “almost revolutionary,” said Jenny Rogers in The Washington Post. In the follow-up to her best-selling Expecting Better, the Brown University economist looks at raising children to age 3 and again argues for trusting one’s own judgment and worrying less. In an “ingeniously simple” formula, she presents common advice, examines the science behind it, and concludes that certain risks we’ve all heard of are small enough that many parents should allow themselves more of them.

Scouting and Scoring

by Christopher J. Phillips (Princeton, $28)

This book about baseball is “worth reading for more than just the baseball,” said Louis Menand in The New Yorker. A scholarly rejoinder to Michael Lewis’ Moneyball and its championing of stats as the best measure of baseball talent, it argues that scouts and data wonks are not so different; they both use subjective judgment in deciding what’s most worth measuring when evaluating individual human potential. In the end, “the tension between scouting and scoring is always with us.”

Invisible Women

by Caroline Criado Perez (Abrams, $27)

“Planners, coders, researchers, and designers all should be given a copy of Invisible Women,” said Katha Pollitt in The Nation. Caroline Criado Perez “lays out in impressive detail the many ways that human beings are presumed to be male,” thus disadvantaging women. The consequences can be as tragic as death in a car designed to safeguard only guy-size crash test dummies, or as absurd as a NASA mission postponed because of a lack of female-size astronaut suits. “Houston, we have a problem!”

Deep Medicine

by Eric Topol (Basic, $32)

Eric Topol’s book on the role artificial intelligence could play in medicine “invites us to dream,” said Thomas Insel in Nature. Topol, a cardiologist, believes that machine intelligence could take over many diagnostic tasks, thus freeing doctors to be more attentive to their patients’ emotional needs. The technology is changing so fast that “much of what he has written will soon be outdated.” Still, “his argument for using technology to bring care back to health care is timeless.” ■