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The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions, and other photos, including a portrait photo of Esenin and his wife Isadora Duncan, American dancer (v. 2, p. [7])... -
![The Would-Be Mommy by Jacqueline Diamond]()
The Would-Be Mommy by Jacqueline Diamond
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the moment he arrives at Safe Harbor Medical, Ian Martin is on infant overload. But the story he's covering gets a lot more interesting when the adventure-seeking reporter meets Jennifer Serra, an intriguing PR director who has created a stir by taking home one of the center's unwanted newborns!Jennifer has always wanted a child of her own... -
![Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett]()
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams... -
![El cirujano de almas by Luis Zueco]()
El cirujano de almas by Luis Zueco
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEn tiempos de oscuridad y prejuicios, arriesgó su vida para salvar la de los demás.«Luis Zueco es el Ken Follett español.» Cadena SerMás de 150.000 ejemplares vendidosUN JOVEN CIRUJANO SEDIENTO DE CONOCIMIENTOBarcelona, 1797... -
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![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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![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... -
![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... -
![A Child is Born by Lennart Nilsson, Lars Hamberger]()
A Child is Born by Lennart Nilsson, Lars Hamberger
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis completely revised edition of the beloved international classic is now entirely in color, with historic, never-before-seen photos in every chapter and an entirely new text... -
![Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes]()
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors. In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already popular around the world... -
![On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci]()
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidentsAnthony Fauci is arguably the most famous – and most revered – doctor in the world today... -
![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... -
![The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee]()
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the transformation of medicine through our radical new ability to manipulate cells... -
![The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume 1 by Jim Hamm]()
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume 1 by Jim Hamm
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Traditional Bowyer's Bible series includes three essential volumes filled with history, humor, and practical advice. Invaluable information for anyone interested in the age-old lure of archery... -
![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... -
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![Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit]()
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMaurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same... -
![Gray's Anatomy The Classic Collector's Edition by Henry Gray]()
Gray's Anatomy The Classic Collector's Edition by Henry Gray
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings780 illustrations, with 172 in color. THE CLASSIC COLLECTOR'S EDITION... -
![When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D. Mezrich]()
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D. Mezrich
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“Although When Death Becomes Life is about courage and innovation and dedication, it is foremost a book about hope…. This monumental and enthralling history of one of modern medicine’s most rousing triumphs is a definitive testament to that hope, and to the brave physicians and patients whose sacrifices made it possible... -
![The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman, Luís Oliveira Santos]()
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman, Luís Oliveira Santos
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease... -
![Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig]()
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name... -
![The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father by Jim Wight]()
The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father by Jim Wight
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNo one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot became an internationally bestselling author. Now, in this warm and poignant memoir, Jim Wight talks about his father--the beloved veterinarian whom his family had to share with half the world... -
![The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden]()
The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis entirely new diary is composed in a similar style to the Country Diary, with Edith Holden's thoughts, anecdotes, and writings interspersed with poetry, mottoes, and her exquisite watercolor paintings of flowers, plants, birds, butterflies and landscape scenes... -
![Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine by Kavitha Rao]()
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine by Kavitha Rao
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt a time when medicine is a highly sought-after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine what it was like for the pioneers. The story of how firmly they were bound in fetters of family, caste and society, and how fiercely they fought to escape, needs to be told... -
![The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett]()
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsUnpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases—HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others... -
![The Century of the Surgeon by Jürgen Thorwald]()
The Century of the Surgeon by Jürgen Thorwald
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThrough the device of 1st person, a tracing of the march of surgery from the 1846 discovery of anesthetics to its development as an art, with such critical discoveries as the transfer of germs by contact... -
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![Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne]()
Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWeaving together and explaining the latest discoveries and ideas from many disparate areas of modern science, this succinct and important book explains the truth about, and the beauty of, evolution... -
![Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe by Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall]()
Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe by Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsProduced in association with the Jane Goodall Institute on the occasion of Goodall's 40th anniversary of groundbreaking research with the chimpanzees of Gombe, this beautifully illustrated volume traces her work from its singular beginnings to the Jane Goodall Institute's present-day international activities. 65 full-color and 30 duotone photos.Contents:Foreword / Gilbert M... -
![The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham]()
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world...Categorized as:
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![Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice by Pam Fessler]()
Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice by Pam Fessler
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America’s most painful secrets. Locals knew it as Carville, the site of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, where generations of afflicted Americans were isolated—often against their will and until their deaths... -
![Vital Organs by Suzie Edge]()
Vital Organs by Suzie Edge
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem.Queen Victoria's armpit led to the development of antiseptics.Robert Jenkin's ear started a war.All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than real flesh and blood... -
![Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery by Richard Hollingham]()
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery by Richard Hollingham
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsToday, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of selfless men working tirelessly in the pursuit of medical advancement. Instead it's a bloodstained tale of blunders, arrogance, mishap and murder...
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