Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh…
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By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
2. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
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3. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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4. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
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5. Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story
By: Lee Morgan
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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6. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
By: Nathan Vardi
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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7. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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8. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
By: Kate Zernike
4.42
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
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9. Budapest: Between East and West
By: Victor Sebestyen
4.29
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
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10. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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11. Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning
By: Peter J. Hotez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Két macska voltam
By: András Kepes
4.15
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
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3.98
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15. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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16. Puccs Moszkvában: Putyin végnapjai – André Calvi visszatér (André, #5)
By: Tamás Frei
4.12
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
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17. Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life
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4.55
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18. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
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4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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19. The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Joe Miller
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"Dünya Sağlık Örgütü'nün koronavirüs salgınını pandemi ilan etmesine altı hafa, Donald Trump'ın Beyaz Saray'ının ''Son Hız Operasyonu'' aşı geliştirme programını başlatmasına dört ay vardı. Henüz Çin …"-Joe Miller, The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
20. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
By: Peter Hessler
4.56
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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21. Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
By: Mikkael A Sekeres
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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