Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines
By: Alexander Zaitchik
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative look at monopoly medicine from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID-19 v…
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1. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
By: Steve Fraser
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American r… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
3. Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
By: Helaine Olen
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
If you've ever bought a personal finance book, watched a TV show about stock picking, listened to a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- business
4. Polio: An American Story
By: David M. Oshinsky
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find … read more
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5. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
By: Beverly Daniel Tatum
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into … read more
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6. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
7. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
By: Brian Klaas
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews w… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- business
- audiobook
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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- audiobook
- history
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
10. 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
- audiobook
"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
11. Music Is History
By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep m… read more
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- history
- audiobook
12. Fire Strike (Oregon Files #17)
By: Mike Maden
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must battle an army of genetically engineered mercenaries … read more
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13. Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
By: Rainn Wilson
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
**New York Times Bestseller** Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of th… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .
By: Rick Mercer
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- history
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"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
17. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- science
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
18. Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
By: Nicklas Brendborg
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Sunday Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" … read more
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- science
- health
- nonfiction
- self help
19. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
20. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
By: Lauren Markham
4.08
Format: 263 pages, ebook
A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
By: Matt Siegel
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love. Is Italia… read more
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- history
- health
- nonfiction
- science
22. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more
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- audiobook
23. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
By: Matthew Dallek
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more
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- audiobook
24. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
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- nonfiction
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"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
25. The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial co… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
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26. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
By: Michael Waldman
4.30
Format: 400 pages, ebook
An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
27. Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
By: Steven Greenhouse
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panor… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- business
- audiobook
28. Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature
By: Beth Shapiro
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking natu… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines
By: Alexander Zaitchik
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative look at monopoly medicine from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID-19 v… read more
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- self help
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30. Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
By: Albert Bourla
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Wall Street Journal Bestseller 2022 Genesis Prize Laureate Axiom Award Bronze Medalist for Business… read more
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