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All In the Mind by Alastair Campbell
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlastair Campbell’s powerful first novel is a gripping portrait of the strange dependency between patient and doctor. Martin Sturrock desperately needs a psychiatrist. The problem? He is one. Emily is a traumatized burn victim; Arta a Kosovan refugee recovering from a rape. David Temple is a long term depressive, while the Rt. Hon... -
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Doctor Gay by Tabatha Allen
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition for B00XZHVM2A Genre: Gay Medical Domination / Straight to Gay Erotica Robert isn't sure if he's gay. After debating, his gay friend Peter gives him a referral for a very special medical test. Once Robert's strapped to the examination table, he'll get a hands on thorough exam. When he's done, he won't question his sexuality anymore... -
![The Facility by Simon Lelic]()
The Facility by Simon Lelic
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Who are you? Are you the police? This isn't legal, you know. You can't hold me like this." In a near-future dystopian Britain, democracy has been undermined. Emboldened by new anti-terrorism laws, police start to “disappear” people from the streets for unspecified crimes... -
![We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets]()
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFor readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation—who convince themselves they’re in control . . . until the violence strikes closer to home.Kayleigh needs money... -
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![So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo]()
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a...Categorized as:
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![This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay]()
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsTHE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS `Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you... -
![Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Annemie de Vries]()
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Annemie de Vries
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsFactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong...Categorized as:
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![Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon]()
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBeyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination...Categorized as:
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![Fruit Of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy by Liv Strömquist]()
Fruit Of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy by Liv Strömquist
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologized, and politicized vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, and menstruation. In this graphic nonfiction book, drawn in chunky, punky pen, Swedish cartoonist Liv Strömquist traces how different cultures and traditions have shaped women’s health and beyond... -
![Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay]()
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are “routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked,...Categorized as:
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![Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez]()
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsImagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued.If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman...Categorized as:
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![Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa]()
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation...Categorized as:
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![The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Steven Novella]()
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Steven Novella
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking in the popular "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe" podcast's dryly humorous, accessible style.It's intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge...Categorized as:
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![NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman]()
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently...Categorized as:
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![Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo]()
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWinner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year AwardBillions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst...Categorized as:
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![When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery by Frank T. Vertosick Jr.]()
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery by Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In other words, by all of us."--Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine and MiraclesRule One for the neurologist in residence: "You ain't never the same when the air hits your brain." In this fascinating book, Dr... -
![Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay]()
Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKübra Gümüşay beschreibt wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt. „Ein beeindruckendes Buch, poetisch und politisch zugleich.“ Margarete StokowskiDieses Buch folgt einer Sehnsucht: nach einer Sprache, die Menschen nicht auf Kategorien reduziert. Nach einem Sprechen, das sie in ihrem Facettenreichtum existieren lässt...Categorized as:
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![Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh]()
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWhat is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong?In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony... -
![Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski]()
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsAn essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research and brain science—that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a “pink pill” for women to function like Viagra does for men... -
![The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher]()
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the worldWe all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies...Categorized as:
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![The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray]()
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDouglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplaces, universities, schools and homes in the names of social justice, identity politics and intersectionality...Categorized as:
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![Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon]()
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAndrew Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down's syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities; with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender... -
![Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari]()
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety.Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager...Categorized as:
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![Better by Atul Gawande]()
Better by Atul Gawande
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled professionThe struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do...Categorized as:
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![The War on the West by Douglas Murray]()
The War on the West by Douglas Murray
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world...Categorized as:
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![Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks]()
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner***In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem, Rabbi Sacks argues, then it must also form part of the solution...Categorized as:
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![Der tiefe Graben: Die Geschichte der gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika by Ezra Klein]()
Der tiefe Graben: Die Geschichte der gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika by Ezra Klein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDiscover how today’s rigidly partisan politics came to be, why we all participate in it, and what it means for America’s future—from star journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. Over the past 50 years, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities...Categorized as:
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![Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt]()
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family’s extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the right to be different—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning science reporter for The Washington Post...Categorized as:
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![Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates]()
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWomen are standing up and #shoutingback. In a culture that's driven by social media, for the first time women are using this online space (@EverydaySexism www.everydaysexism.com) to come together, share their stories and encourage a new generation to recognise the problems that women face...Categorized as:
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![Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us by C.N. Lester]()
Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us by C.N. Lester
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat does it mean to be transgender? How do we discuss the subject? In this eye-opening book, C.N...Categorized as:
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