Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
By: Brian Switek
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone." --Wal…
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1. Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize … read more
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"Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being."-Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
2. 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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3. Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
By: Bill Nye
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Sparked by a provocative comment to BigThink.com last fall, and fueled by a highly controversial de… read more
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- history
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4. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
By: Richard W. Wrangham
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intell… read more
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5. The Spook Who Spoke Again (Flavia Albia Mystery, #2.5)
By: Lindsey Davis
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A short comic masterpiece from Lindsey Davis set in Ancient Rome and featuring Marcus Didius Falco,… read more
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6. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
By: Deborah Blum
3.60
Format: 212 pages,
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very… read more
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7. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
By: Daniel E. Lieberman
3.87
Format: 252 pages, ebook
A landmark book of popular science--a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over mi… read more
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8. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
9. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
10. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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11. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
12. The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
By: Paul Bloom
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid … read more
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- audiobook
13. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
14. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
15. 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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- anthropology
16. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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- death
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- science
17. Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
By: Brandy Schillace
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The “delightfully macabre” ( The New York Times ) true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon… a… read more
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18. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
By: Katie Spalding
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more
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19. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Ben Westhoff
4.02
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more
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20. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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21. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
By: David Quammen
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our un… read more
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22. Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
By: Brian Switek
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone." --Wal… read more
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23. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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24. The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots
By: Kate Darling
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For readers of The Second Machine Age or The Soul of an Octopus , a bold, exciting exploration of h… read more
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25. Between Family (The City Between, #9)
By: W.R. Gingell
4.58
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
When someone tries to threaten me by telling me they know my name, I take that personally. G’day… read more
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"It sounds bad to say, but I think I could have forgiven the murders"-W.R. Gingell, Between Family (The City Between, #9)
"You’re just an overdressed galah who can’t stop spreading flowers everywhere he goes. One day you’re gunna run into a bloke with a mower and you won’t know what hit you."-W.R. Gingell, Between Family (The City Between, #9)
"the kitchen was all black and white and red tiles; nice and gothic, except that the black and white was tile and the red was blood—lots of it. I mean, I suppose that’s gothic, too. It wasn’t supposed…"-W.R. Gingell, Between Family (The City Between, #9)
26. Between Kings (The City Between, #10)
By: W.R. Gingell
4.57
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
G’day. I’m Pet. Heirling. Biter of fae lords. Trouble. I have a lot of names these days—includin… read more
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"I’m left-handed, so I hate to break it to you, but you chopped off the wrong arm."-W.R. Gingell, Between Kings (The City Between, #10)
"Please tell me you’ve at least got him locked up in whatever the fae version of irons is?"-W.R. Gingell, Between Kings (The City Between, #10)
"There are the things that should go without saying. Throw away the milk after it’s chunky and smelly; run when something with teeth bigger than your forearms looks at you the wrong way. Maybe don’t k…"-W.R. Gingell, Between Kings (The City Between, #10)
27. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1)
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.85
Format: 122 pages, ebook
Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhe… read more
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28. Bitter Waters (Dr. Greta Helsing, #3.5)
By: Vivian Shaw
4.38
Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty, charming standalone novella starring Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must get to … read more
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29. Shitty Craft Club: A Club for Gluing Beads to Trash, Talking about Our Feelings, and Making Silly Things
By: Sam Reece
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Shitty Craft Club is a uniquely empowering guide that allows burnt-out, pressured people to accept … read more
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30. Venom Doc: The Edgiest, Darkest, Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever
By: Bryan Grieg Fry
4.08
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most veno… read more
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31. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more
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