Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
By: Thomas Hager
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a cataly…
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1. A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
By: Jane Ziegelman , None , Andrew Coe
3.75
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth expl… read more
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2. The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
By: Barry Werth
3.92
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical compa… read more
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3. The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
By: Ali S. Khan
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An inside account of the fight to contain the world’s deadliest diseases—and the panic and corrupti… read more
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4. Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
By: Sam Kean
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story t… read more
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"Don’t damn people to hell, damn them to Venus."-Sam Kean, Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
5. The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
By: Marcia Angell
3.97
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row se… read more
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6. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
By: Clea Koff
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocid… read more
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7. The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
By: Ogi Ogas , Donald R. Kirsch
3.58
Format: 24 pages,
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8. 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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9. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
By: Mark Miodownik
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more
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10. Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
By: None
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became… read more
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11. 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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12. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
By: Philipp Dettmer
4.59
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more
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"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
13. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
By: Katherine Eban
4.42
Format: 512 pages, ebook
Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health dev… read more
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14. 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
15. 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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"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
16. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more
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- audiobook
17. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
By: Rob Dunn
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets … read more
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"I know what I want my dust to say about me."-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
"Every surface; every bit of air; every bit of water in your home is alive. The average house has thousands of species."-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
18. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
By: Nathan Vardi
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more
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19. Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
By: Mark Miodownik
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating new book by the bestselling scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik is an expert tou… read more
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20. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
By: Nathan H. Lents
3.95
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA… read more
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21. The Life and Times of Prince Albert
By: Patrick Allitt
3.73
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
How did Prince Albert, an obscure German prince, leave an indelible mark on the British monarchy? … read more
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22. A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
By: Ben Garrod
3.93
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 2 hours and 42 minutes Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all… read more
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23. The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
By: Charles Graeber
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse comes an empowering and accessible sto… read more
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24. Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
By: Tim James
4.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What is the chemical symbol for a human? What's the strongest acid ever made? Can human beings real… read more
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25. 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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26. 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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27. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
By: Thomas Hager
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a cataly… read more
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- historical
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- business
- audiobook
28. The Rise of Modern Japan
By: Mark J. Ravina
4.05
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Devastated by war, Japan in 1945 faced ruin as a major power. Yet within a quarter century it bounc… read more
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29. The Home Front: Life in America During World War II
By: Dan Gediman
4.13
Format: 8 pages, Audible Audio
Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Martin Sheen, The Home Front: Life in America During World War… read more
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30. The Spaceship Next Door (Sorrow Falls, #1)
By: Gene Doucette
3.99
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
When a spaceship lands in Sorrow Falls, a lovable and fearless small-town girl is the planet’s only… read more
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31. Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source
By: Kathryn Judge
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Axiom Award Gold Medalist for Business Theory Finance expert, law professor, and fellow overwhelmed… read more
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