Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal
By: Kat Arney
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Why do we get cancer? Is it our modern diets and unhealthy habits? Chemicals in the environment? An…
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1. My Life
By: Golda Meir
4.04
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
My Life is the autobiography of the first female Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir. The book is… read more
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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."-Golda Meir, My Life
"The British went on fighting like lions against the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese, but they couldn’t or wouldn’t stand up to the Arabs at all – though much of the Arab world was openly pro-…"-Golda Meir, My Life
"It has never ceased to astonish me that the Arab states have been so eager to go to war against us. Almost from the very beginning of Zionist settlement until today, they have been consumed by hatred…"-Golda Meir, My Life
"Come to think of it, I am more than a little tired of hearing about how the Jews ‘stole’ land from Arabs in Palestine. The facts are quite different. A lot of good money changed hands, and a lot of A…"-Golda Meir, My Life
2. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
3. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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4. 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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5. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
By: Val McDermid
4.25
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of r… read more
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6. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
By: Svante Pääbo
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the… read more
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7. Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
By: Jim Al-Khalili , Johnjoe McFadden
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller and an Amazon Best Science Book of 2015 Life is the most extraordinary phe… read more
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8. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
By: Jennifer A. Doudna , Samuel H. Sternberg
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a c… read more
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9. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
10. 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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- health
- medical
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- nonfiction
- popular science
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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
11. 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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- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- popular science
- science
12. Z miłości? To współczuję. Opowieści z Omanu
By: Agata Romaniuk
4.23
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Z miłości? To współczuję to opowieść o współczesnym Omanie. O kobietach i mężczyznach, którzy skryw… read more
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- nonfiction
"- No tak. Z miłości. To współczuję. Jak miłość się skończy, zostaniesz z niczym - mówi na odchodnym. Nie zdążam zaprzeczyć. Dziewięć lat później przekonam się, że miała rację."-Agata Romaniuk, Z miłości? To współczuję. Opowieści z Omanu
13. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
- health
"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
14. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
15. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
16. Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
By: Lisa Sanders
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tell… read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
17. Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir
By: Stevie Van Zandt
4.01
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Uncover never-before-told stories in this epic tale of self-discovery by a Rock n Roll disciple and… read more
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- nonfiction
18. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
By: Craig Whitlock
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how th… read more
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- nonfiction
"To reinforce the message, Obama administration officials touted statistics that distorted what was really happening on the ground. The Bush administration had done the same, but Obama staffers in the…"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
"Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, …"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
19. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
20. Projekt Riese (Projekt Riese, #1)
By: Remigiusz Mróz
3.56
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Riese. Największy projekt nazistowskich Niemiec, którego przeznaczenie wciąż pozostaje nieznane. Ni… read more
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21. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
By: Gwen Adshead
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
22. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
By: Mary-Frances O'Connor
4.19
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- health
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
23. A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
By: Judith Flanders
3.49
Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition
In A Place for Everything, historian Judith Flanders draws our attention to both the neglected ubiq… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
24. Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
By: Carl Zimmer
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world--from prot… read more
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- biology
- medicine
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- popular science
- science
"It was a biochemical Jackson Pollock: a field of strings, tangles, loops."-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
"Thirteen thousand years ago it fell to Antarctica. It rested in the Allan Hills as the Ice Age glaciers retreated, farmers discovered agriculture, cities rose, and rockets shot into space."-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
"The disgusting smell of death of death is the result of certain airborne molecules with evocative names like cadaverine and putrescine. These molecules are not produced by death, however, but by life…"-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
25. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
By: Judith Grisel
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl… read more
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- health
- medical
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- nonfiction
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"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?"-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
26. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
By: Philip Ball
4.28
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to en… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- genetics
- science
"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
27. Samotnia
By: Anna Kańtoch
3.79
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Najważniejsze jest niewidoczne dla oczu? Łatwo powiedzieć, kiedy się widzi. Leon Cichy, autor po… read more
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28. Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal
By: Kat Arney
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Why do we get cancer? Is it our modern diets and unhealthy habits? Chemicals in the environment? An… read more
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- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- popular science
- genetics
- science
29. How to Survive a Pandemic
By: Michael Greger
4.24
Format: 1000 pages, ebook
A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Time… read more
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- health
- medical
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- nonfiction
- science
30. The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
By: Athena Aktipis
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer When we think of th… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
31. 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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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
