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How We Do Harm
A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America

St. Martin's Press
How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest...
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The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Picador
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long...
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Almost Chimpanzee
Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them

St. Martin's Griffin
In the fall of 2005, a band of researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the differences between humans...
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Evolution
The Story of Life on Earth

Hill and Wang
An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this...
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How to Build a Time Machine
The Real Science of Time Travel

St. Martin's Press
A pop science look at time travel technology, from Einstein to Ronald Mallett to present day experiments. Forget fiction: time travel is real. In How to...
  
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Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony
A Psychological Portrait

St. Martin's Press
From America’s #1 forensic psychiatrist, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson and acclaimed contributor to...
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Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition

St. Martin's Press
Now in its tenth edition, this classic book remains the complete technical-writing reference for students and professionals alike. Alphabetically organized and...
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Breakthrough
Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

St. Martin's Griffin
It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed...
  
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The Vertical Farm
Feeding the World in the 21st Century

Picador
A Library Journal Best Book of 2010 “A world-changing innovation whose time has come. The visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world’s food...
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The Viral Storm
The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

Times Books
Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic...

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Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition
A Guide for Couples

St. Martin's Griffin
REVISED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD ARE YOU GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT? Originally published in 1988, Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of couples...
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A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Picador
National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced,...
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Emotions Revealed, Second Edition
Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

Holt Paperbacks
“A tour de force. If you read this book, you’ll never look at other people in quite the same way again.”—Malcolm Gladwell Renowned psychologist Paul Ekman...
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The World Without Us

Picador
Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Salon Book Awards...
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Intuitive Eating, 2nd Edition
A Revolutionary Program That Works

St. Martin's Griffin
We've all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But...
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The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

Holt Paperbacks
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators-and the strange...
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Bad Science
Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol...
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The Number Devil
A Mathematical Adventure

A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who...
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West with the Night

North Point Press
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
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Get Anyone to Do Anything
Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation

St. Martin's Griffin
The legendary leader in the field of human behavior delivers the national bestselling, must-read phenomenon that changed the rules. Utilizing the latest...
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The Right Stuff

Picador
From "America’s nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of...
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Fasting and Eating for Health
A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease

St. Martin's Griffin
Precise diet and fasting programs to relieve headache, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, colitis,...
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Why People Believe Weird Things
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Holt Paperbacks
Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New...