Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
By: Camper English
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the c…
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1. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more
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- history
2. And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
By: Wayne Curtis
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American History "And a Bottle of Rum" tells the r… read more
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- nonfiction
- food
- history
3. Proof: The Science of Booze
By: None
4.02
Format: 982 pages, Hardcover
Humans have been perfecting alcohol production for ten thousand years, but scientists are just star… 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. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
6. The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
By: Carla Valentine
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Discover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novels Agatha Christie is the bestse… read more
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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. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
9. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
10. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home
By: Anya von Bremzen
3.55
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Coo… read more
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- nonfiction
- food
- history
11. Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
By: Amy Brady
3.91
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--from the foods Americans eat,… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- microhistory
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12. Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
By: Camper English
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the c… read more
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- history
- health
- medical
- medicine
- culinary
- food
- nonfiction
- microhistory
- audiobook
13. 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
14. Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
By: Cheuk Kwan
3.57
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brough… read more
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- nonfiction
- food
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- audiobook
15. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
By: William Alexander
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more
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- history
- food
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- microhistory
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16. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By: Alexandra Lange
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more
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- history
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"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
17. Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language
By: Judith Tschann
3.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"A truly delightful smorgasbord of history and linguistics that kept us entertained—and made us hun… read more
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- food
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18. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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19. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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20. A Very Private School: A Memoir
By: Charles Spencer
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more
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21. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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22. 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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23. Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
By: Ira Rutkow
3.92
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Ti… read more
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24. Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
By: Paul Craddock
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth of poor children?And what role did a sausage… read more
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25. The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
By: Moiya McTier
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this approachable and fascinating biography of the galaxy, an astrophysicist and folklorist deta… read more
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26. Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
By: Nicola Twilley
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley trace the history and the future of quarantine methods and tactics… read more
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27. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more
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28. Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life
By: Matt Hay
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment h… read more
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29. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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30. The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
By: Amanda Bellows
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordina… read more
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31. The Cereal Killer Chronicles of Battle Creek (True Crime)
By: Jenn Carpenter
4.10
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Passion, Greed, Murder, Corn Flakes At the convergence of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo rivers lay… read more
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