The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
By: Euan Angus Ashley
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In The Genome Odyssey , Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the br…
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1. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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- health
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- genetics
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2. Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
By: Matt Ridley
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, is nothing… read more
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- biology
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- genetics
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3. The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
By: Jessica Wapner
4.33
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scruti… read more
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- health
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
4. How to Meditate with Pema Chodron: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind
By: Pema Chödrön
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Audio CD
***How to Meditate Has Been Named One of Library Journal s Best Books of 2013*** Pema Chodron is tr… read more
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5. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- biology
- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
6. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- audiobook
- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
8. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- medical
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
9. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- biology
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- audiobook
10. 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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. 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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- audiobook
- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
12. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
By: Cade Metz
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more
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- technology
- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
13. The Making of You: A Journey from Cell to Human
By: Katharina Vestre
4.11
Format: 141 pages, Hardcover
It's the first great mystery: where did you come from? How did your cells know what to build? What … read more
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- science
- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Why We Forget and How To Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory
By: Andrew E. Budson
3.64
Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition
Remember things better by understanding how your memory works. If memory is a simple thing, why do… read more
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- medical
- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
By: Libby Copeland
4.02
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
In The Lost Family, journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast so… read more
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- audiobook
- health
- nonfiction
- genetics
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"Time is the enemy of secret-keepers, because with time comes the inevitable revelation, one way or another."-Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
"Linda would say that she was so excited to have half-sisters that she didn't fully appreciate how her story posted a fundamental threat to their story."-Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
"Seeking out genetic information... may allow adult adoptees, who had no choice in whether to be adopted, or by whom, to exercise their autonomy in making meaning out of it."-Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
"People thought they could get away with everything, she says– and indeed, they did until genetic genealogy came along. In Moore's view, DNA is an equalizer, a revelatory force with the power to right…"-Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
16. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
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- genetics
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17. The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
By: Kathryn Paige Harden
3.91
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Virginia Living Favorite Book (2021) A provocative and timely case for how the science of gene… read more
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- audiobook
- biology
- nonfiction
- genetics
- science
"We are living in a golden age of genetic research, with new technologies permitting the easy collection of genetic data from millions upon millions of people and the rapid development of new statisti…"-Kathryn Paige Harden, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
18. The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
By: Euan Angus Ashley
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In The Genome Odyssey , Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the br… read more
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- health
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- biology
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- genetics
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19. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
By: Philip Ball
4.28
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to en… read more
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- audiobook
- biology
- nonfiction
- genetics
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"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
20. Światy wzniesiemy nowe
By: Urszula Jabłońska
3.94
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Niektórzy mówią, że świat taki, jaki znamy, dobiega końca. Ale są przecież jeszcze inne światy – ty… read more
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- audiobook
21. Future Care: Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reinvention of Medicine
By: Jagmeet Singh M.D.
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
WITH A FOREWORD BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE A renowned cardiologist and Harvard professor spells out … read more
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