Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
By: Sandro Galea
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health…
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1. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more
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2. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By: Bryan Stevenson
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more
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- nonfiction
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3. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
By: T.R. Reid
3.47
Format: 156 pages,
In The Healing of America, New York Timesbestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other indu… read more
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4. Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
By: William M. Bass , Jon Jefferson
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention … read more
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5. The King of Torts
By: John Grisham
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Cl… read more
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6. A Lesson Before Dying
By: Ernest J. Gaines
3.48
Format: None pages,
A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black… read more
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7. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
By: Candice Millard
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more
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8. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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9. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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10. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
By: Gary Taubes
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gar… read more
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11. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
12. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By: Steven W. Thrasher
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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13. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
14. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
15. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more
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- social justice
- sociology
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
16. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
By: Jennifer L. Eberhardt
4.33
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one o… read more
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"The power of the gaze of others to define how you’re seen in the world; it can shape the scope of your life and influence how you see yourself."-Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
"The process of making these connections is called bias. It can happen unintentionally. It can happen unconsciously. It can happen effortlessly. And it can happen in a matter of milliseconds. These as…"-Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
17. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
By: Melinda French Gates
4.28
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
A debut from Forbes' third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary … read more
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"When it’s “he said/she said,"-Melinda French Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
"Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings."-Melinda French Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
"…contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created."-Melinda French Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
"It's the mark of a backward society - or a society moving backward - when decisions are made for women by men."-Melinda French Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
18. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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19. The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
By: Heather B. Armstrong
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong writes about her experience as one of only a few people to … read more
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"And just in case you didn't know this little tidbit about social interaction, let me fill you in on something: Do not ever comment on how or what or when a woman is eating anything. Don't do it. Beca…"-Heather B. Armstrong, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
20. How to Date Men When You Hate Men
By: Blythe Roberson
3.21
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is… read more
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"There do exist reasons to internet stalk someone that aren't sad or creepy: maybe you just remembered this person for the first time in fifteen years, maybe you're going on a first date and want to m…"-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men
"Even more than I hate commodifying myself, I hate men judging me as a commodity. For thousands of years, women have been throughout their lives reduced to their worth as sexual objects (slash domesti…"-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men
21. Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
By: Sandro Galea
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health… read more
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