Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
By: Jim Downs
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism…
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1. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
By: Ann Fessler
4.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrend… read more
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"Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret."-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
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2. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more
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3. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
By: Angela Nagle
4.08
Format: 88 pages, ebook
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle … read more
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4. The Lais of Marie de France
By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more
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5. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
By: Bartolomé de las Casas , Anthony Pagden , None
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. A… read more
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6. Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
By: Michio Kaku
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100. In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New Y… read more
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"Bilim şüphesiz ki iki tarafı keskin bir kılıçtır; çözüme ulaştırdığı sayıda problem yaratır, ve yarattığı her problem bir öncekinden hep daha zordur."-Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
"The handsome and the beautiful may earn the admiration of society, but all the wondrous inventions of the future are a by-product of the unsung, anonymous scientists."-Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
"There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wis…"-Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
"By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence…"-Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
7. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By: Harriet A. Washington
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more
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8. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
By: Sally Denton
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more
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9. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
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. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
By: Derek Beres
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more
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12. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
By: Christopher Clark
4.18
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more
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"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
13. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
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14. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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16. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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17. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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18. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
By: Erin Kimmerle
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more
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19. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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20. This Is the Voice
By: John Colapinto
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
There’s no shortage of books about public speaking, language, or song, but until now, there hasn't … read more
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21. 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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22. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
By: Ben Raines
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more
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23. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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24. Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
By: Arnold van de Laar
4.15
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the wi… read more
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25. Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party
By: Jetta Grace Martin
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Booklist Editors’ Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World … read more
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26. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
By: Jim Downs
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism… read more
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27. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
By: Rupa Marya
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more
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28. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
By: Nick Estes
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life” In 2… read more
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"In this particular era of neoliberal capitalism, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
"Obama spoke of being inspired by the courage of Black civil rights activists and freedom riders, who faced dog attacks, fire hoses, and police brutality, and “who risked everything to advance democra…"-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
29. Ninetails: Nine Tales
By: Sally Wen Mao
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of … read more
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30. At the Limits of Cure (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
By: Bharat Jayram Venkat
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an in… read more
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