Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
By: Maryn McKenna
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this eye-opening expose, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributor Maryn M…
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1. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By: Tracy Kidder
4.19
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned… read more
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- history
- health
- medical
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"Doctors are notorious for taking peculiar views of their own bodies. They tend to develop hypochondria in medical school and, once they get over it, if they do, tend to think they're invulnerable."-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separate…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"Paul is the model of what should be done. He's not a model for how it has to be done. Let's celebrate him. Let's make sure people are inspired by him. But we can't say anybody should or could be just…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"The parents of some fellow students in the gifted and talented class owned a bookstore, and when he was about eleven they gave him a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. He read i…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
2. Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: Care / Feeding / Facilities
By: Gail Damerow
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Here is all the information you need to successfully raise chickens -- from choosing breeds and hat… read more
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3. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
By: Selwyn Raab
3.97
Format: 12 pages,
Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York an… read more
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4. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
By: Dan Fagin
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For the readers of A Civil Action, The Emperor of all Maladiesand The Immortal Life of Henrietta La… read more
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5. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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6. Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
By: Jennifer Wright
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A humorous book about history's worst plagues--from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio--and … read more
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7. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By: Timothy Egan
4.05
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
8. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
9. On the Job: The Untold Story of America's Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
By: Celeste Monforton
4.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring story of worker centers that are cropping up across the country and leading the fight… read more
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- nonfiction
10. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
By: Susan Page
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
By: Robert Specht
4.32
Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It was like traveling through a stage setting, the air clear and tingling, the moonlight sparkling off bushes laced with frost."-Robert Specht, Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
12. The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
By: Steffanie Strathdee
4.39
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of one woman's effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure tha… read more
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- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why."-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
"It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of …"-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
13. 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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- health
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- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
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14. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
By: Daniel Stone
3.93
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the gl… read more
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- food
- history
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"What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves."-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
"He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical …"-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
"In Naples, where pizza was invented, Fairchild tasted his first cheesy flatbread, a punishing food for first-timers, whose mouths could be scorched with hot, lavalike cheese. He was enchanted by the …"-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
"The grape, of a variety known as sultanina, would ultimately grow best in the wet and temperate soil of California. America's region most climatically similar to the Mediterranean. Fairchild's sample…"-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
15. The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach
By: Sarah Stodola
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A captivating exploration of beach resort culture—from its roots in fashionable society to its unde… read more
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- history
16. Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
By: Maryn McKenna
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this eye-opening expose, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributor Maryn M… read more
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- history
- agriculture
- medical
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- biology
- medicine
- animals
- food
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- science
17. Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
By: Sally Coulthard
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From dinosaur to dinner plate, Sally Coulthard tells the fascinating – and sometimes shocking – sto… read more
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18. The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
By: Chip Jones
3.75
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Virginia Living Favorite book (2021) In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's … read more
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19. Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
By: Gerald Posner
4.19
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and … read more
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20. Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
By: Mikkael A Sekeres
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of t… read more
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