The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
By: Steffanie Strathdee
4.39
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of one woman's effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure tha…
Want to Read $ 14.99"A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why."-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
"It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of superbugs without borders."-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
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1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2. Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
By: Mark Olshaker , C.J. Peters
3.97
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book The man who led the battle against Ebola in The Hot Zone teams up w… read more
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3. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
By: Leslie Alan Horvitz , Joseph B. McCormick , Susan Fisher-Hoch
3.99
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC, is a memoir by America's most famous virus researchers. "Level 4… read more
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4. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
By: David Quammen
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more
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5. Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
By: Martin J. Blaser
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the… read more
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6. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
By: Laurie Garrett
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. C… read more
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7. Resistant (Dr. Lou Welcome, #3)
By: Michael Palmer
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
They fight without conscience or remorse. Their only job is to kill. They are the most ruthless ene… read more
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8. The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
By: F. González-Crussí , Pamela Nagami
3.77
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabl… read more
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9. 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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10. The Cobra Event
By: Richard Preston
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
The Cobra Eventis a petrifying, fictional account of a very real threat: biological terrorism.Seven… read more
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11. 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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12. Plagues and Peoples
By: William H. McNeill
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peopleswas an immediate critical and popular success, of… read more
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13. Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
By: Virginia Morell
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Did you know that ants teach, earthworms make decisions, rats love to be tickled, and chimps grieve… read more
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14. The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
By: Matt McCarthy
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor--the sort of mythical,… read more
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15. Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
By: Penny Le Couteur , Jay Burreson
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Though many factors have been proposed to explain the failure of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, … read more
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16. Polio: An American Story
By: David M. Oshinsky
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find … read more
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17. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
By: Jennifer A. Doudna , Samuel H. Sternberg
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a c… read more
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18. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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19. The Demon in the Freezer
By: Richard Preston
3.06
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
"The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines." -Richard Danzig, former sec… read more
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20. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
By: Emily Monosson
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more
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21. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
22. 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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23. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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24. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
By: David Quammen
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more
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"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
25. 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
26. 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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27. Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
By: Kris Newby
3.97
Format: 6 pages, Audiobook
A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding… read more
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28. The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
By: Steffanie Strathdee
4.39
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of one woman's effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure tha… read more
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"A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why."-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
"It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of …"-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
29. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
By: Tom Ireland
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more
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30. Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
By: Matt McCarthy
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a groundbreaking… read more
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31. Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease
By: Jason Dearen
4.41
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug… read more
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