The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
By: Jorge L. Contreras
4.28
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In this riveting, behind-the-scenes courtroom drama, a brilliant legal team battles corporate greed…
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1. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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2. I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
By: Terrence Real
3.62
Format: 57 pages,
Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence R… read more
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3. 101 Things I Learned in Business School
By: Matthew Frederick , Alfredo Cabrera , Michael W. Preis
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
101 THINGS I LEARNED(r) IN BUSINESS SCHOOL will cover a wide range of lessons that are basic enough… read more
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4. She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
By: Carl Zimmer
4.16
Format: 657 pages, Hardcover
Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overvi… read more
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- history
- medical
- biology
- nonfiction
- genetics
- science
"The stubborn inequalities in the Unites States are not the result of some people living in a physical environment. Their environment is built by social forces, and those forces last for centuries bec…"-Carl Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
"It is true that humans have physical differences, and some of those differences are spread geographically across the plant. But clinging to old notions about race won't help us understand the nature …"-Carl Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
5. Tucker
By: Chadwick Moore
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For tens of millions of Americans, Tucker Carlson was long the only voice on cable news providing a… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz tweeted, "@TuckerCarlson is CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America. The ADL is a racist organization."-Chadwick Moore, Tucker
"During Tucker's Little Rock stint, former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was in the White House, and it's not hard to argue that to a remarkable degree he imposed his hometown's flexible, free-and-ea…"-Chadwick Moore, Tucker
6. 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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- history
- health
- medical
- biology
- nonfiction
- science
7. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- law
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
8. Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
By: Daniel J. Levitin
3.93
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove … read more
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- medical
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- health
"Spend time with people who encourage you to grow, to explore new things, and who take joy in your successes."-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
"The Greek physicians Herophilus and Erasistratus discovered the nervous system in 322 BC, placing the seat of thought in the brain. It might be fair to say that they were the first neuroscientists. P…"-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
"Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a…"-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
"A large part of people who manage to stay young, in spite of their chronological age, relates to synaptic plasticity - the ability of the brain to make and form new connections. As we've seen, plasti…"-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
9. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
10. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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- medical
- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
11. Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
By: Liam Vaughan
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of a trading prodigy who amassed $70 million from his childhood bedroom--until t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
By: Oliver Milman
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
13. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy
By: Jonathan Martin
4.00
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
14. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
15. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- biology
- history
- nonfiction
- science
16. The Butcher of the Forest
By: Premee Mohamed
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more
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17. Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
By: Jacob Goldstein
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money i… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
18. Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies
By: Gordon Corera
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The full, explosive story for the first time: Putin’s espionage campaign against the West, how i… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
By: Kate Zernike
4.42
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixtee… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"The women had spent their careers trying not to think about being women, hoping they would be seen as scientists. But as the first or only in so many settings, they felt they had to live up to a high…"-Kate Zernike, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
20. Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response
By: Andy Slavitt
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
* NATIONAL BESTSELLER * “Painfully good. The book could have been called, ‘Outrageous.’ The story … read more
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- history
- health
- medical
- politics
- nonfiction
- science
"You can fix a lot of things, but you can't un-die people."-Andy Slavitt, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response
21. Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
By: Tim Higgins
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Power Play is the riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- technology
22. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
By: Brian Alexander
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
USA Today 's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS "Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world o… read more
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- history
- health
- medical
- politics
- nonfiction
- science
23. 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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- history
- health
- medical
- biology
- nonfiction
- science
24. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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- history
- health
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- politics
- nonfiction
- science
25. The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
By: Jorge L. Contreras
4.28
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In this riveting, behind-the-scenes courtroom drama, a brilliant legal team battles corporate greed… read more
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- science
- history
- health
- medical
- politics
- biology
- law
- nonfiction
- genetics
- technology
26. Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
By: Preet Bharara
4.27
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of … read more
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- politics
- history
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- law
"You can’t ever really know someone else’s mind or someone else’s heart, what someone else is capable of."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"Go out there and try to be good. If you go out there and try to be good, you've got a chance to be great."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"You will not find God or grace in legal concepts, in formal notions of criminal justice. Certain values and ideals are beyond justice. These include mercy, forgiveness, redemption, dignity. Also love."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"One's understanding of the truth—whether that's the correctness of a fact or the guilt of a person—should never be unalterable. Think of a strongly held, defensible point of view as a block of ice, f…"-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
27. You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
By: Paul A. Offit
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine—with powerful lessons for to… read more
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- science
- history
- health
- medical
- nonfiction
- technology
28. Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
By: Rupert Russell
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, groundbreaking exposé of how commodity traders in New York and London have destabili… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
29. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
30. Roe: The History of a National Obsession
By: Mary Ziegler
3.70
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- law
31. What’s the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal―and How It Costs Us All
By: Hal Weitzman
3.79
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
How the “First State” has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-ear… read more
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