Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them
By: John S. Tregoning
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The human body is a marvel – but what happens when it comes under attack? A fascinating guide to wh…
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1. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By: Atul Gawande , None
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more
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2. The Body in the Marsh
By: Nick Louth
3.21
Format: 208 pages,
When a woman goes missing, it gets personal for DCI Craig Gillard. But he could never imagine what … read more
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3. Science: A History
By: John Gribbin
3.29
Format: 80 pages,
ISBNs for 2003 edition re-used for this one Science: A Historyis the enthralling story of the men a… read more
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4. 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
By: Alanna Collen
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body,… read more
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5. 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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"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
6. 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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"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
7. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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8. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
By: Farzon A. Nahvi
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more
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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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10. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.08
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more
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11. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
By: Katie Mack
4.26
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look—in th… read more
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"It also means that cosmology doesn’t really have a well-defined concept of “now."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the …"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"You may have heard that "we are made of stardust" (or "star stuff" if you're Sagan), and this is absolutely true if we measure by mass. All the heavier elements in your body—oxygen, carbon, nitrogen,…"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
12. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
By: Nathan Vardi
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more
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13. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
By: Matt Richtel
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to he… read more
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"Ideas ... can elicit a kind of autoimmune response - an overreaction that feels protective initially but can ultimately be counterproductive and make it harder to find truth."-Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
14. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
By: David Eagleman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain ba… read more
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"... So the basis of behavioral improvement is not simply the repeated performance of a task; it also requires neuromodulatory systems to encode relevance. Without acetylcholine, the ten thousand hour…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the b…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The fact is that the future is hard to predict. Whatever the case, as we move toward the horizon, the only certainty is that we will increasingly choose our own plug-and-play peripheral devices. We a…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"Several emerging companies, still in their infancy, hope to increase the speed of brain communication to the outside world by writing and reading neural data rapidly by means of direct plug-ins. The …"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
15. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Ant… read more
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16. Darkness on the Fens (DI Nikki Galena, #10)
By: Joy Ellis
4.36
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
A serial killer on a poisonous mission pushes Nikki and her team to their breaking point Revelle… read more
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17. Hur jag lärde mig förstå världen
By: Hans Rosling
4.35
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Eis as memórias, comoventes e divertidas, de Hans Rosling, génio sueco da estatística, extraordinár… read more
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"Det är aldrig för sent att ge upp, så det kan vi lika gärna göra någon annan gång."-Hans Rosling, Hur jag lärde mig förstå världen
18. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
19. Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals
By: Ginny Smith
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This mind-bending, eye-opening book provides readers with an enjoyable route through the remarkable… read more
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20. Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them
By: John S. Tregoning
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The human body is a marvel – but what happens when it comes under attack? A fascinating guide to wh… read more
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21. Too Many Pills
By: James Le Fanu
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years wit… read more
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