Category Archives: Health

  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

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  • The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

    0 May 28, 2019 standard

  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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  • Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

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  • The Trauma Cleaner: One woman’s extraordinary life in death, decay and disaster

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  • Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication

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  • Astroturf

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  • Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability

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  • Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

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  • Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

    0 December 26, 2018 standard

  • When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

    0 December 19, 2018 standard

  • The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

    0 October 25, 2018 standard

  • The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences

    0 October 9, 2018 standard

  • Unwell: What Makes a Disease a Disease?

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  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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  • Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

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  • She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

    0 July 16, 2018 standard

  • Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

    0 June 22, 2018 standard

  • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

    0 June 18, 2018 standard

  • The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World

    0 June 8, 2018 standard

  • The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives

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  • The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

    0 April 7, 2018 standard

  • Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity

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  • The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers

    0 April 2, 2018 standard

  • The Vaccine Race: How scientists used human cells to combat killer viruses

    0 March 20, 2018 standard

  • Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: What is really going on inside our heads?

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  • Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions

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  • Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

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  • Plucked: A History of Hair Removal

    0 February 9, 2018 standard

  • Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

    0 February 5, 2018 standard

  • Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today

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  • The Lazarus Effect: The Science That is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death

    0 January 18, 2018 standard

  • Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World

    0 January 8, 2018 standard

  • The Taste of Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

    0 December 3, 2017 standard

  • This Book Stinks! Gross Garbage, Rotten Rubbish, and the Science of Trash

    0 November 29, 2017 standard

  • Carrie Bengston Reviews The Emperor of all Maladies – A Biography of Cancer

    0 November 2, 2017 standard

  • Katrina: After the Flood

    0 October 25, 2017 standard

  • Confronting Contagion: Our Evolving Understanding of Disease

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  • Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness

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  • The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

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  • Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

    0 June 19, 2017 standard

  • Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future

    0 June 15, 2017 standard

  • The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma

    0 May 2, 2017 standard

  • An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

    0 April 17, 2017 standard

  • Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization

    0 April 12, 2017 standard

  • Pure, White and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

    0 March 28, 2017 standard

  • Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America

    0 March 27, 2017 standard

  • The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids – and the Kids We Have

    0 March 20, 2017 standard

  • Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA

    0 March 16, 2017 standard

  • Market-driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses In The Transformation Of America’s Largest Service Industry

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