The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
By: Daniel M. Davis
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Profes…
Want to Read $ 9.99"What kept Steinman going when things didn’t quite make sense – what keeps all scientists going – is the faith that nature is coherent, that answers exist."-Daniel M. Davis, The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
"In truth, defining any medicine as ‘natural’ is difficult in a rigorous scientific or philosophical sense because every treatment is an intervention, and all medicines are derived from nature at some level"-Daniel M. Davis, The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
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1. A Planet of Viruses
By: Carl Zimmer
4.06
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their s… read more
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"For comparison, tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, ba…"-Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses
2. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
By: Dan Ariely
3.93
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality ret… read more
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"The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips."-Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
"[..] we human beings are ready and willing to steal something that does not explicitly reference monetary value - that is, something that lacks the face of a dead president."-Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
"By the time [people] finish entering all the data onto the form, it is too late. The cheating is done and over with, and no one will say, 'Oh, I need to sign this thing, let me go back and give hones…"-Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
"Moreover, grandmothers of students who aren't doing so well in class are at even higher risk - students who are failing are fifty times more likely to lose a grandmother compared with non-failing stu…"-Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
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4. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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5. Gertrude
By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of hu… read more
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6. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
7. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
By: Nick Lane
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed,… read more
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8. 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
By: Alanna Collen
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body,… read more
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9. The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat
By: Tim Spector
2.00
Format: 161 pages,
We are all increasingly bewildered by the simple question of what to eat. Despite advice from exper… read more
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10. Flotsam
By: Erich Maria Remarque
4.43
Format: 63 pages,
V Biblii skazano: "Vozliubi blizhnego svoego". No - kak vozliubit' blizhnego svoego, esli blizhnie … read more
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11. The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World
By: Sandor Ellix Katz
1.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York … read more
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12. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
By: Philipp Dettmer
4.59
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more
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"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
13. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
By: David Reich
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more
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14. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
15. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
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16. Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
By: Lisa Sanders
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tell… read more
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17. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
By: Daniel M. Davis
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Profes… read more
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"What kept Steinman going when things didn’t quite make sense – what keeps all scientists going – is the faith that nature is coherent, that answers exist."-Daniel M. Davis, The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
"In truth, defining any medicine as ‘natural’ is difficult in a rigorous scientific or philosophical sense because every treatment is an intervention, and all medicines are derived from nature at some…"-Daniel M. Davis, The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
19. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
By: Matt Richtel
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to he… read more
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"Ideas ... can elicit a kind of autoimmune response - an overreaction that feels protective initially but can ultimately be counterproductive and make it harder to find truth."-Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
20. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
By: David Eagleman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain ba… read more
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"... So the basis of behavioral improvement is not simply the repeated performance of a task; it also requires neuromodulatory systems to encode relevance. Without acetylcholine, the ten thousand hour…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the b…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The fact is that the future is hard to predict. Whatever the case, as we move toward the horizon, the only certainty is that we will increasingly choose our own plug-and-play peripheral devices. We a…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
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