Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19
By: Heather E. Quinlan
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Pandemics can come in waves―like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end li…
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1. A Planet of Viruses
By: Carl Zimmer
4.06
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their s… read more
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"For comparison, tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, ba…"-Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses
2. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
By: Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen
4.00
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when… read more
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"Unfortunately, the theory that 'more is better' is a really, really crappy theory when it comes to arsenic."-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
"It is perhaps oddly appropriate that the symbol for the god Mercury was the caduceus—two snakes entwined on a winged rod. The symbol is commonly and incorrectly associated with the medical establishm…"-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
3. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
By: Colin Woodard
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
4. The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages
By: David Bercovici
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of… read more
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- audiobook
5. Viruses, Plagues and History
By: Michael B.A. Oldstone
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The story of viruses and the story of humanity have been intertwined since the dawn of history. The… read more
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6. Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5)
By: Mira Grant
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship … read more
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7. A Beautiful Poison
By: Lydia Kang
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist-covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza r… read more
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8. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
By: John Kelly
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more
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9. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
By: Colin Dickey
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through… read more
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- history
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"Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping"-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
"The dead are watching, whether or not we choose to listen to their stories."-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
"Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit."-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
"A ghost story’s reduction of a complex moment or the history of building into a series of cliches is reproduced in beautifully staged photos that fetishize the past without truly representing it. “Ru…"-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
10. A Game of Thrones #1
By: Daniel Abraham , George R.R. Martin , Tommy Patterson
4.61
Format: 32 pages, ebook
A New York Times bestselling epic. A blockbuster TV series. And now, George R. R. Martin’s breathta… read more
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11. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
By: Ian Mortimer
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more
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- history
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
12. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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13. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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- history
- audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
14. The Lost City of the Monkey God
By: Douglas Preston
3.93
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more
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15. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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- history
- medicine
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- science
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
16. A Gallery of Poisoners: Thirteen Classic Case Histories of Murder by Poisoning
By: Adrian Vincent
3.54
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
Here are thirteen cases of fatal passions, unfortunate acquaintances and gruesome endings. The thi… read more
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17. Understanding the Brain
By: Jeanette Norden
4.31
Format: None pages, None
Considering everything the brain does, how can it possibly be the source of our personalities, drea… read more
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18. Medical Mysteries Across History
By: Roy Benaroch
4.14
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
In medical school, every patient is a teaching case - and every patient can be your teacher. For hu… read more
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19. Medical Mysteries Across History, Pt.2
By: Roy Benaroch
4.18
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
About This Audible Original Doctors are more than doctors. They’re detectives who solve mysterie… read more
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20. Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19
By: Heather E. Quinlan
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Pandemics can come in waves―like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end li… read more
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