Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
By: Mikkael A Sekeres
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of t…
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1. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
By: Elisabeth Rosenthal
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller "The definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.… read more
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- medicine
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2. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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3. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
4. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
5. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
6. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
7. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
By: Shane Parrish
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more
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- nonfiction
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- health
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
9. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
By: Lawrence Ingrassia
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
- health
10. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
By: Edward Humes
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- science
11. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
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12. The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
By: Tim Schwab
3.72
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy t… read more
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- science
"The foundation enjoys unparalleled privileges in the marketplace. It is not taxed or regulated as a private company because all its deal making happens through charitable agreements. It is not scruti…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Bill Gates is not plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into journalism because he believes in the democratic ideals of the free press or because he is a personal fan of watchdog reporting. His pri…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Gates donates money from his private wealth to his private foundation. He then assembles a small group of consultants and experts at the foundation’s half-billion-dollar corporate headquarters to dec…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Across most of the diseases the Gates Foundation works on, its track record of innovation is quite weak. Gates planted its flag as the leading voice on malaria, working with a number of different com…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
13. 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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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
- health
14. Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
By: Eric Klinenberg
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our frac… read more
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- nonfiction
"Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the neighborly community."-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
"Even the Internet, which was supposed to deliver unprecedented cultural diversity ad democratic communication, has become an echo chamber where people see and hear what they already believe."-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
"Today, our communities are full of children whose future, like Jelani's, will be formed in the places where they go to learn about themselves and the world they'll inherit. They deserve palaces. Whet…"-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
"The accessible physical space of the library is not the only factor that makes it work well as social infrastructure. The institution's extensive programming, organized by a professional staff that u…"-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
15. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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- medicine
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- science
- health
16. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
By: M. Chris Fabricant
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science… read more
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- science
17. Private Equity: A Memoir
By: Carrie Sun
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more
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"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir
18. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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19. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
By: Mark Bittman
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how h… read more
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- nonfiction
- health
"Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with W…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became …"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"Domesticated animals were often too valuable to be eaten. Indeed, the amount of meat consumed per person may well have gone down with the advent of farming as wild animals became scarce, at least nea…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
20. Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department
By: Elie Honig
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig analyzes how Attorney General William Barr has demolished norms and de… read more
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21. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
By: Hannah Carlson
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
22. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
By: Ryan Holiday
4.21
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more
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23. Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
By: Scott Gottlieb
4.08
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taugh… read more
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- medicine
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- science
- health
24. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more
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25. If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, fill… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
- health
26. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
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27. American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
By: Casey Michel
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Miche… read more
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28. When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia
By: Mikkael A. Sekeres
4.38
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A leading cancer specialist tells the compelling stories of three adult leukemia patients and their… read more
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29. Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
By: Mikkael A Sekeres
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of t… read more
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- historical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
30. Tell Me When It's Over: An Insider's Guide to Deciphering Covid Myths and Navigating Our Post-Pandemic World
By: Paul A. Offit
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s top virologists, the definitive guide to understanding—and navigating—COVID… read more
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