Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
By: Ina Park
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Joyful and funny . . . Park uses science, compassion, humor, diverse stories and examples of her o…
Want to Read $ 11.99"In 1959, women were told they needed to cultivate their “daintiness"-Ina Park, Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
"In 1959, women were told they needed to cultivate their “daintiness"-Ina Park, Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
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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 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
3. The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
By: Merlin Tuttle
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatur… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
4. 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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5. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
By: Leah Hazard
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus--from birth to death, in sickness and in h… read more
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6. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more
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"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
7. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By: Steven W. Thrasher
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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8. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
9. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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10. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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11. The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the real story of QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of… read more
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12. Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
By: Kate Lister
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Authored by one of the most original contemporary thinkers on the subject, this book is an enlighte… read more
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13. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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14. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
15. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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16. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
By: Lydia Kang
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more
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17. The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
By: Hugh Ryan
4.45
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window int… read more
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18. Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
By: Garrett Ryan
4.20
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to dri… read more
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19. These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
By: Gretchen Morgenson
3.70
Format: 400 pages, ebook
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial jour… read more
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20. Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
By: Rachel Feltman
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to H… read more
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21. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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22. Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
By: Rachel E. Gross
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genital… read more
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"Medicine is supposed to be unbiased," she says. "But when we look at the bigger picture of it, we can see that it is far from that."-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
"Darwin's attitudes toward women were a direct outgrowth of his ideas about other animals—or, rather, each reinforced the other. Throughout his career, he insisted that female animals were less capabl…"-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
"Your vagina is another planet. If you could shrink down to the size of a grain of sand and go between your own legs, you'd find a wondrous realm of humid jungles, cool caves, and viscous pits of mucu…"-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
23. Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
By: Ina Park
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Joyful and funny . . . Park uses science, compassion, humor, diverse stories and examples of her o… read more
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"In 1959, women were told they needed to cultivate their “daintiness"-Ina Park, Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
24. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
By: Karen Tang
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more
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25. Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner's Guide to Life in the Space Age (Women in Science Gifts, NASA Gifts, Aerospace Industry, Mars)
By: Kellie Gerardi
3.99
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
“Kellie is probably one of the best ambassadors for spaceflight in the 21st century that the indust… read more
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"The key to a team capable of doing more with less lies in a flat organizational structure where everyone feels equal ownership of outcomes and an equal responsibility to invest in each other to reach…"-Kellie Gerardi, Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner's Guide to Life in the Space Age (Women in Science Gifts, NASA Gifts, Aerospace Industry, Mars)
26. The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
By: Karen Bakker
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s sounds The natural world teems with remarkabl… read more
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"Scientists still do not have a comprehensive understanding of plant signaling mechanisms, although they do know that perception of a sound vibration can cause changes in plant hormones, gene expressi…"-Karen Bakker, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
"the unfolding waves of sound are like an underwater orchestra or the endless improvisation of a jazz band. On the Great Barrier Reef, the humpback whales sing the soprano melody. Fish supply the chor…"-Karen Bakker, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
27. Clean: The New Science of Skin
By: James Hamblin
3.91
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The author of the popular Atlantic articles "You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus" and "I Quit Show… read more
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"Capitalism sells nothing so effectively as status."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"Self and other is less of a dichotomy than a continuum."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
28. A Shore Thing
By: Joanna Lowell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A delightful queer Victorian love story, featuring a boldly brash trans hero, the beguiling botanis… read more
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29. Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
By: Rose Hackman
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ An urgent look at emotional labor ....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possibl… read more
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30. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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31. The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession
By: Kelsy Burke
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornograph… read more
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