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One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix, a Novel by Jane Kirkpatrick
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne dedicated woman...giving voice to the suffering of many Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father, Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers, Charles and Joseph. But at just fourteen, she is separated from them and sent to live with relatives to be raised properly... -
![Mary Toft ou la Reine des Lapins by Dexter Palmer]()
Mary Toft ou la Reine des Lapins by Dexter Palmer
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the highly acclaimed author of Version Control a stunning, powerfully evocative new novel based on a true story—in 1726 in the small town of Godalming, England, a young woman confounds the medical community by giving birth to dead rabbits.Surgeon John Howard is a rational man. His apprentice Zachary knows John is reluctant to believe anything that purports to exist outside the realm of logic... -
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Luz Antigua by Alan Lightman
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith echoes of Calvino, Rushdie, and Saramago, this is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale."As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe." So begins Alan Lightman's playful and profound new novel, Mr g, the story of Creation as narrated by God... -
![Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Carlos Manuel Vesga]()
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Carlos Manuel Vesga
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 55 ratings100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens... -
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![A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough]()
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSee the world. Then make it better.I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion... -
![Cosmos by Carl Sagan, LeVar Burton]()
Cosmos by Carl Sagan, LeVar Burton
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsCosmos has 13 heavily illustrated chapters, corresponding to the 13 episodes of the Cosmos television series. In the book, Sagan explores 15 billion years of cosmic evolution and the development of science and civilization. Cosmos traces the origins of knowledge and the scientific method, mixing science and philosophy, and speculates to the future of science... -
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Alcoholics Anonymous: 1938 Multilith Edition by Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt's more than a book. It's a way of life. Alcoholics Anonymous-the Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease... -
![The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee]()
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSpanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’...Categorized as:
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![Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake, Christine Clemmensen]()
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake, Christine Clemmensen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes... -
![Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari]()
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe first volume, in a hardcover edition for libraries, of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text for readers of all ages... -
![The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson]()
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIn the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself... -
![Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman]()
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFrom the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and cooperation of human beings has been the greatest factor in our successIf one basic principle has served as the bedrock of bestselling author Rutger Bregman's thinking, it is that every progressive idea -- whether it was the abolition of slavery, the advent of democracy, women's suffrage, or the...Categorized as:
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![Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross]()
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA scientific journey to the center of the new female body.The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed.” Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men... -
![From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty]()
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAs a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body... -
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![Lords of the Earth by Don Richardson]()
Lords of the Earth by Don Richardson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEngulfed in the darkness of Irian Jaya's Snow Mountains live the Yali – naked cannibals who call themselves "lords of the earth." Yet in terror and bondage they serve women-hating, child-despising gods... -
![Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan]()
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us... -
![Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari]()
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsYuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war... -
![An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal]()
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America...Categorized as:
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![Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible by E. Randolph Richards, Brandon J. O'Brien]()
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible by E. Randolph Richards, Brandon J. O'Brien
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example:When Western readers hear Paul exhorting women to "dress modestly," we automatically think in terms of sexual modesty...Categorized as:
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![Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon]()
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives todayHow did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get... -
![Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama]()
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition...Categorized as:
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![Findungen by Maria Popova]()
Findungen by Maria Popova
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the creator of Brain Pickings, a kaleidoscopic and original illumination of the lives and ideas of half a dozen women artists, writers and scientists each of whose paths would influence the lives of those who followed... -
![Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing From a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients by Bernie S. Siegel]()
Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing From a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients by Bernie S. Siegel
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMiracles are happening to exceptional patients every day-patients who have the courage to wok with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery. A wonderful book that every patient and skeptic physician should read If we follow Bernie Siegel's advice, we may all stay younger and healthier for many more years...Categorized as:
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![A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking, Ron Miller]()
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking, Ron Miller
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsStephen Hawking is one of the world's leading cosmologists and is widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. Although he has been widely published within his specialized field, A Brief History of Time is the first work he has written for the non-mathematical layman... -
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![Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller]()
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day... -
![The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean, Henry Leyva]()
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean, Henry Leyva
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling... -
![Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright]()
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThroughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them. Some of their responses to those outbreaks are almost too strange to believe in hindsight... -
![Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan]()
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDr Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insights into the brains of humans & beasts, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends and their amazing links to recent discoveries... -
![Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives by Jennifer Worth]()
Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives by Jennifer Worth
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThis final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle... -
![Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker]()
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIf you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science...Categorized as:
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