Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
By: Paul Farmer
4.03
Format: 654 pages, Hardcover
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1. Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
By: Andy Hall
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Denali's Howlis the white-knuckle account of one of the most deadly climbing disasters of all time.… read more
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2. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more
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3. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
4.11
Format: 176 pages,
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4. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By: Tracy Kidder
4.19
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned… read more
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"Doctors are notorious for taking peculiar views of their own bodies. They tend to develop hypochondria in medical school and, once they get over it, if they do, tend to think they're invulnerable."-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separate…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"Paul is the model of what should be done. He's not a model for how it has to be done. Let's celebrate him. Let's make sure people are inspired by him. But we can't say anybody should or could be just…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"The parents of some fellow students in the gifted and talented class owned a bookstore, and when he was about eleven they gave him a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. He read i…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
5. Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
By: Vivien Spitz
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness … read more
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6. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
By: Philip Gourevitch
3.36
Format: None pages,
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone… read more
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7. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
By: None , Mark Epstein
4.04
Format: 226 pages,
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego… read more
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9. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
10. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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11. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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12. The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications (The ParentData Series Book 4)
By: Emily Oster
3.85
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better, a guide to navigating a second preg… read more
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13. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
By: Jeff Guinn
4.06
Format: None pages, Audiobook
“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more
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- politics
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- audiobook
14. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- history
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15. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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16. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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17. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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18. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
19. Health Communism
By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more
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20. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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21. Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
By: Paul Farmer
4.03
Format: 654 pages, Hardcover
A true life medical thriller . . . If what we want in this moment is insight from this brilliant do… read more
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22. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more
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23. The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
By: Deborah Blum
3.92
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author … read more
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24. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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25. The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
By: Carl Elliott
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, somet… read more
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26. Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
By: Richard Preston
4.42
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever—but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a grippin… read more
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"There's not a lot of value in preparing for a war, because what happens in a war is unpredictable. But there is a lot of value in preparing for an outbreak, because what happens in an outbreak is pre…"-Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
"By now, the warriors who stand at the gates of the virosphere understand that they face a long struggle against formidable enemies. Many of their weapons will fail, but some will begin to work. The h…"-Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
"The Ebola war wasn't won with modern medicine. It was a medieval war, and it went down as a brutal engagement between ordinary people and a life form that was trying to use the human body as a means …"-Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
27. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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28. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
By: Maya Dusenbery
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the e… read more
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"As one patient with chronic fatigue syndrome put it, 'The difference between a crazed neurotic and a seriously ill person is simply a test."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"To be sure, depression, anxiety, and prolonged stress can cause specific physical symptoms, but these symptoms are not limitless, nor are they actually unexplained. When doctors invoke these labels f…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"Indeed, these two contradictory extremes that medicine has tended to vacillate between: either women's reproductive functions are pathologized as innately abnormal - in which case any symptoms they b…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
29. Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
By: Richard D. Kahlenberg
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segreg… read more
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30. Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
By: Eugene T. Richardson
4.39
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to o… read more
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31. Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
By: Reid Wilson
4.11
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
A global health catastrophe narrowly averted. A world unprepared for another outbreak. In Decem… read more
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