To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
By: Paul Farmer , Bill Clinton , Jonathan L. Weigel
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social ac…
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1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
By: Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn
4.28
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervas… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil."-Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
"...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so."-Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
"Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses."-Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
"But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first."-Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
3. The House of God
By: John Updike , Samuel Shem
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to kno… read more
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- medical
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4. Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity (The Pastoral series, #2)
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eugene Peterson issues a provocative call for pastors to abandon their preoccupation with image and… read more
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- nonfiction
5. 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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- health
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- nonfiction
- science
6. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
By: Jean-Dominique Bauby , Jeremy Leggatt
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young child… read more
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- medicine
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7. Meaty
By: Samantha Irby , None
3.54
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The debut essay collection by Chicago writer and performer, Samantha Irby, creator of bitchesgottae… read more
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- nonfiction
8. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- science
9. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
By: Tish Harrison Warren
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
By: Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we … read more
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- science
11. What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
By: Danielle Ofri
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A look at the emotional side of medicine--the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love t… read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
12. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
By: Atul Gawande
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
13. To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
By: Paul Farmer , Bill Clinton , Jonathan L. Weigel
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social ac… read more
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- science
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- medical
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- anthropology
14. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By: Tracy Kidder
4.19
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned… read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"Doctors are notorious for taking peculiar views of their own bodies. They tend to develop hypochondria in medical school and, once they get over it, if they do, tend to think they're invulnerable."-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separate…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"Paul is the model of what should be done. He's not a model for how it has to be done. Let's celebrate him. Let's make sure people are inspired by him. But we can't say anybody should or could be just…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"The parents of some fellow students in the gifted and talented class owned a bookstore, and when he was about eleven they gave him a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. He read i…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
15. 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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16. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
By: Damon Tweedy
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the un… read more
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17. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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18. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
By: Atul Gawande
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imp… read more
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19. A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
By: Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad--a road map to becomi… read more
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20. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By: Richard H. Thaler
4.16
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more
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- science
21. Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair
By: Christina Lamb , Nujeen Mustafa
4.15
Format: None pages, ebook
Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christin… read more
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22. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
By: None
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of t… read more
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23. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By: Rebecca Skloot
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henriet… read more
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24. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
25. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- nonfiction
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
26. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
By: Jon Billman
3.69
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more
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28. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more
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29. Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
By: Suzanne Koven
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in … read more
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"Who will I be when I have fewer patients? When I have no patients at all? It's often noted that "practice" as it relates to medicine has two meanings: the act of caring for patients and the doctor's …"-Suzanne Koven, Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
30. The Parted Earth
By: Anjali Enjeti
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In August 1947, 16-year-old Deepa’s life in New Delhi begins to unravel in the days leading up to t… read more
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31. Ander & Santi Were Here
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary … read more
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