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…
Want to Read $ 13.99"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 taken seriously as topics of investigation. Sometimes that’s because we collectively feel they’re gross or embarrassing—like secretions. Or sex. Or dead bodies."-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of 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 taken seriously as topics of investigation. Sometimes that’s because we collectively feel they’re gross or embarrassing—like secretions. Or sex. Or dead bodies."-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
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1. 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
2. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.22
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more
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"Your relationship to mortality is your own."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
3. The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
By: John Bateson
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek's Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking c… read more
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4. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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5. Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
By: Nathan Belofsky
3.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
An irreverent jaunt through medical history's most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest b… read more
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6. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
7. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
8. 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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"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
9. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By: Mary Roach
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more
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"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
10. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
11. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
12. All That Remains: A Life in Death
By: Sue Black
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more
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13. The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
By: J.W. Ocker
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States… read more
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14. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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15. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
By: Lydia Kang
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more
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16. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
17. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
18. Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items
By: J.W. Ocker
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated compendium that reveals the true stories behind the most infamous, creepy, and bizar… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
21. The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
By: Thomas Morris
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions, A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick … read more
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