6 must-read medicine books like The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts

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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration

By: Sarah Everts

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Sweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but it’s also one of our most vital and l…

If you liked the medicine plot in The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

By: Amy Stewart

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart takes us on a journey through the underground world and introduces … read more

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2. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

By: Amy Stewart

3.44

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley.… read more

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3. Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

By: Gary Younge

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Dea… read more

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4. Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

By: Paul A. Offit

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thor… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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6. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery

By: Christie Aschwanden

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller “The definitive tour through a bewildering jungle o… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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7. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

By: David Quammen

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"

-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

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8. The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

By: Guy Leschziner

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner leads readers through the five senses and h… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"[...] the absence of sensation can be devastating. But an absence of pain – the loudest of our sensations – sounds like a blessing, not a curse. Pain screams its way into our consciousness, blotting …"

-Guy Leschziner, The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

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9. How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

By: Meg Bowles

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

By: Paul Nurse

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and the… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • biology
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  • nature
  • audiobook
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11. Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

By: Edith Widder

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence—the l… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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12. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Superior: The Return of Race Science

By: Angela Saini

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
"Nobody has ever found any genes linking ethnicity or race to school results. Like Henry Garrett half a century earlier, [Gerhard] Meisenberg chooses to skip over the social, historical, and economic …"

-Angela Saini, Superior: The Return of Race Science

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14. Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

By: Ryan Leak

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY Bestseller! Chasing Failure will help you remove every excuse for not pursuing the life… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything

By: Robert M. Hazen

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An enchanting biography of the most resonant— and most necessary—chemical element on Earth. Carb… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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16. The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration

By: Sarah Everts

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Sweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but it’s also one of our most vital and l… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Everts's The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration book and Sarah Everts's The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • nature
  • audiobook
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17. Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

By: Kate Clancy

3.97

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Men… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
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  • audiobook
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18. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
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19. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • history
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20. Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World

By: Susan R. Barry

3.85

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

A neurobiologist reexamines the personal nature of perception in this groundbreaking guide to a new… read more

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16 Best audiobook books like The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts

Transform Your Habits

Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

Paul A. Offit

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery

Christie Aschwanden

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen

4.21

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23 best-selling audiobook books like Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea by Edith Widder

Transform Your Habits

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

Adam Nicolson

3.51

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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