Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
By: Brandy Schillace
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
By: Sam Kean
4.50
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, langu… read more
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"You're not supposed to interject feelings into science, but part of the reason it's so fascinating that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus is that it's so creepy that we're 8 percent (or more…"-Sam Kean, The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
2. Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize … read more
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"Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being."-Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
3. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more
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4. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
By: Mary Roach
4.36
Format: 352 pages,
"Equal parts Groucho Marx & Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening & entertaining."--Sunday Denver Po… read more
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5. The Devourers
By: Indra Das
2.62
Format: None pages,
On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musi… read more
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6. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
By: Sam Kean
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, tales of the brain and the history of neu… read more
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7. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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8. Gutshot
By: Amelia Gray
3.92
Format: None pages,
A searing new collection from the inimitable Amelia Gray A woman creeps through the ductwork of a q… read more
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9. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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10. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.09
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more
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11. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
12. Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy
By: Joanna Ebenstein
4.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, humankind has sought to know itself through an understanding of the body, in sicknes… read more
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13. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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14. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness … read more
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15. Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
By: Brandy Schillace
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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16. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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17. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
By: Charles King
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of wo… read more
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18. Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
By: National Geographic Society
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead S… read more
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19. Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
By: Theresa Levitt
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A story of alchemy in Bohemian Paris, where two scientific outcasts discovered a fundamental distin… read more
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20. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
By: Chris Nashawaty
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more
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21. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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