A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
By: Ralph H. Hruban
4.29
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exempl…
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1. Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
By: Hampton Sides
3.17
Format: None pages,
On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
2. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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3. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
By: Jordan Ellenberg
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world a… read more
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4. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
By: Richard Louv
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourt… read more
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"The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lo…"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
5. The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
By: Thor Hanson
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2016 PNBA Book Award A finalist for the 2016 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in… read more
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6. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me
By: Bernie Taupin
3.58
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- nonfiction
8. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
9. 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
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- medicine
- nonfiction
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10. All the Little Bird-Hearts
By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
3.80
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more
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11. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- history
- biography
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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
12. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
By: Joanna Robinson
4.22
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
13. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
By: Edward Humes
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
14. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
15. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
By: Olivia Campbell
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first… read more
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- biography
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
16. Goth: A History
By: Lol Tolhurst
3.68
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Following his memoir Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
17. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- science
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
18. 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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- history
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19. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By: Maria Smilios
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more
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- history
- biography
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
20. Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
By: Richard Snow
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known event… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. The Real Queen Charlotte
By: Catherine Curzon
3.76
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton’s court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Streli… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
22. Black Friend: Essays
By: Ziwe
4.30
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays
23. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
24. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
By: Kate Strasdin
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
25. Night Shift (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #13)
By: Robin Cook
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
" In this exhilarating medical mystery-thriller by Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lu… read more
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- medical
26. 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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- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
27. How to Date Men When You Hate Men
By: Blythe Roberson
3.21
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is… read more
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- nonfiction
"There do exist reasons to internet stalk someone that aren't sad or creepy: maybe you just remembered this person for the first time in fifteen years, maybe you're going on a first date and want to m…"-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men
"Even more than I hate commodifying myself, I hate men judging me as a commodity. For thousands of years, women have been throughout their lives reduced to their worth as sexual objects (slash domesti…"-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men
28. One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
By: Gene Weingarten
3.94
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, li… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration."-Gene Weingarten, One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
29. Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
By: Lizzie Stark
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An unconventional history of the world’s largest cellular workhorse, from chickens to penguins, fro… read more
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- history
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30. Flashpoint (FBI Thriller, #27)
By: Catherine Coulter
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Ti… read more
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31. A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
By: Ralph H. Hruban
4.29
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exempl… read more
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