The Urge: Our History of Addiction
By: Carl Erik Fisher
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation of addiction, and mental illness more generally, for decades."-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synthesis, and I have hope that we can unite around an inclusive definition of recovery as being any kind of positive change. But in order to do so, we will need to turn to the pain of our shared past, because, as in the case of individual addictions, pain and purpose are so often intertwined, and our despair comes from somewhere. The suffering of addiction is not an individual malady—it also comes from deep, ancestral wounds. We need to face that fact too, in order to fully recover, together."-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
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1. Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recoveri… read more
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"Our brains are embodied—much of the problem with the debate over addiction and psychiatry more generally is a refusal to accept this and our ongoing need to see “physical,"-Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
"I felt utterly stripped of safety and love. And so, what tormented me most as I shook through August of 1988 wasn’t the nausea and chills but the recurring fear that I’d never have lasting comfort or…"-Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
"But since President Obama allowed Colorado and Washington to legalize recreational use and sales of marijuana following initiatives in 2012, the United Stets itself is probably now violating internat…"-Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
2. The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
By: Leslie Jamison
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Timesbestselling author of THE EMPATHY EXAMS, an exploration of addiction, and the … read more
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3. High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
By: Carl L. Hart
5.00
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods… read more
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4. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
6. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
7. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more
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8. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
9. Raising Lazarus
By: Beth Macy
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more
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10. 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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11. The Urge: Our History of Addiction
By: Carl Erik Fisher
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more
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"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
12. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more
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13. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
By: Donald R. Prothero
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth’s past. In The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks, Donald R… read more
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14. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
By: Judith Grisel
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl… read more
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"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?"-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
15. Rewire Your OCD Brain: Powerful Neuroscience-Based Skills to Break Free from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears
By: Catherine M. Pittman
4.20
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Rewire the brain processes that cause obsessions and compulsions—and take back your life! If you’ve… read more
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16. Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing
By: Jen Soriano
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses sci… read more
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17. If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, fill… read more
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18. A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
By: Richard Firth-Godbehere
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how ou… read more
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19. Sweat: A History of Exercise
By: Bill Hayes
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and mak… read more
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20. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
By: Robert Chapman
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more
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21. A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It
By: Alex Riley
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A fascinating, “rich, and generous” ( Financial Times ) look at the treatment of depression by an a… read more
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