In “We Are Electric,” Sally Adee explores the body’s capacity for electricity; the results can be shocking. Bioelectricity has the power to transform medicine, and the military. Its ...

Sally Adee. Hachette, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-306-82662-7 Journalist Adee debuts with a revelatory survey of bioelectricity, the electrical currents that enable “perception, motion, and cognition.” ...