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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios... -
![You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah]()
You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble At a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse individuals serve as a reminder of the importance of empathy, finding community and motivating advocacy For a long time, when people asked Dr...Categorized as:
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![And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts]()
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBy the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century... -
![Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by John Woodrow Cox]()
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by John Woodrow Cox
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLonglisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionWinner of the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice*A Newsweek Favorite Book of 2021 *An NPR 2021 Books We Love selection *A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction *A Kirkus 2021's Best, Most Urgent Books of Current Affairs selectionBased on the acclaimed series--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--an...Categorized as:
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![Human Behavioral Biology by Robert M. Sapolsky]()
Human Behavioral Biology by Robert M. Sapolsky
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMultidisciplinary. How to approach complex normal and abnormal behaviors through biology. How to integrate disciplines including sociobiology, ethology, neuroscience, and endocrinology to examine behaviors such as aggression, sexual behavior, language use, and mental illness...Categorized as:
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![What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer]()
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race -- and scours the psyches of contenders from George... -
![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... -
![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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![The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté]()
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBy the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing...Categorized as:
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![Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti]()
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA clear and concise guide to the politics of post-Roe America, for readers eager to understand the attacks on our bodies and freedom—and to do something about itIn this, her most urgent book yet, New York Times–bestselling author Jessica Valenti dispels misinformation and cuts through the headline overwhelm to illuminate the full-scale assault conservative lawmakers have launched on women’s...Categorized as:
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![The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook]()
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.“SHED MY DNA”: three excruciating words uttered by a QAnon-obsessed mother, once a highly respected lawyer, to her only son, once the closest person in her life...Categorized as:
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![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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![Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie]()
Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSo much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on?Medicine, education, psychology, health, parenting – wherever it really matters, we look to science for advice. Science Fictions reveals the disturbing flaws that undermine our understanding of all of these fields and more... -
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![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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![Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan]()
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe austerity crisis and threat to disability rights. New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people.In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers...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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![In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan, Caren Zucker]()
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan, Caren Zucker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Sweeping in scope but with intimate personal stories, this is a deeply moving book about the history, science, and human drama of autism."--Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker"Remarkable . . . A riveting tale about how a seemingly rare childhood disorder became a salient fixture in our cultural landscape...Categorized as:
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![Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley]()
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFormer Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law...Categorized as:
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![Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction by Maia Szalavitz]()
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction by Maia Szalavitz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)—the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous power Drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse... -
![What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood]()
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars. Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops...Categorized as:
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![Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson]()
Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . .Categorized as:
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![Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal by Tom Shroder]()
Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal by Tom Shroder
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s no secret that psychedelic drugs have the ability to cast light on the miraculous reality hidden within our psyche. Almost immediately after the discovery of LSD less than a hundred years ago, psychedelics began to play a crucial role in the quest to understand the link between mind and matter...Categorized as:
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![Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies]()
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity...Categorized as:
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![Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens]()
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStorming Heaven is a riveting history of LSD and its influence on American culture. Jay Stevens uses the "curious molecule" known as LSD as a kind of tracer bullet, illuminating one of postwar America's most improbable shadow-histories...Categorized as:
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![Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit]()
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere's a silent, dangerous war going on out there. On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of immunizing their sons and daughters. On the other side are doctors, scared to send kids out of their offices vulnerable to illnesses like whooping cough and measles--the diseases of their grandparents... -
![America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges]()
America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” ( Booklist ), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate...Categorized as:
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![Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple]()
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHere is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all... -
![Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager, Angelo Di Loreto]()
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager, Angelo Di Loreto
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBehind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials...Categorized as:
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![League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth by Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru]()
League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth by Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS DO NOT SUSTAIN FREQUENT REPETITIVE BLOWS TO THE BRAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS.”So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport...
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