Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
By: Walter Brown
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable untold story of a miracle drug, the forgotten pioneer who discovered it, and the fig…
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1. Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
By: Sam Kean
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story t… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
"Don’t damn people to hell, damn them to Venus."-Sam Kean, Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
2. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more
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3. 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
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- psychology
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- audiobook
"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
4. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
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- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
6. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
7. 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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- audiobook
- history
- medicine
- nonfiction
- 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
8. Black Tide
By: K.C. Jones
3.59
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
A story with a cinematic feel, Black Tide is Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day a… read more
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"We're alive. And we have hope. I say, no matter what, we're heading in the right direction."-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
"Stories explained the unknowable before the advent of science. What happens when science is left shrugging its shoulders?"-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
"I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me."-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
"My dad always used to say it's important that people never stop appreciating sunsets. As long as we can still be stopped in our tracks and remember what a big deal it is that we're even here, there's…"-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
9. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
By: Judea Pearl
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has re… read more
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"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment…"-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
10. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
By: Andrew Scull
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once calle… read more
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- psychiatry
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- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
By: Adam Stern
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more
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- medicine
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)
By: Serj Tankian
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more
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- history
- audiobook
14. The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
By: Jonathan Reisman
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves togethe… read more
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- science
15. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
By: Sarah Weinman
3.59
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and… read more
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- history
- audiobook
16. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
By: Liza Mundy
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more
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- history
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17. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
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18. Steel Fear (Finn Thrillers, #1)
By: Brandon Webb
4.22
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
An aircraft carrier adrift with a crew the size of a small town. A killer in their midst. And the d… read more
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19. The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
By: Sam Kean
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hit… read more
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20. Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
By: Walter Brown
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable untold story of a miracle drug, the forgotten pioneer who discovered it, and the fig… read more
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