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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
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia...
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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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Dance of the Photons
From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Einstein’s steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he...
  
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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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When Oil Peaked

Hill and Wang
In two earlier books, Hubbert’s Peak (2001) and Beyond Oil (2005), the geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil...
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The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck
What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you about the most shocking discovery in the history of science: that at its deepest level the...
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A Life Worth Living
A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Critical illness is a fact of life. Even those of us who enjoy decades of good health are touched by it eventually, either in our own lives or in those of our...
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Mirroring People
The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others

Picador
Includes a new Afterword by the Author What accounts for our remarkable ability to get inside another person's head--to know what he or she is thinking and...
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Irreligion
A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

Hill and Wang
Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? The mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In Irreligion he presents the case for...
  
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Head Cases
Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain damage. Michael...
  

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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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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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Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

Hill and Wang
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated...
  
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Annals of the Former World

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began...
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The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable

Faber and Faber, Inc.
The pioneer of herbal veterinary medicine has again thoroughly revised, updated and expanded her book on natural and organic cures and farming methods, first...
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The Painted Word

Picador
"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been...
  
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Picador
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient...
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Rising From The Plains

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a...
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The Pine Barrens

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near...
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Character Analysis

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Reich's classic work on the development and treatment of human character disorders, first published in 1933. As a young clinician in the 1920s, Wihelm Reich...
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The Stuff of Life
A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA

Hill and Wang
Let’s face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien...
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In Suspect Terrain

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana’s drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal...
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Crowds and Power

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and...
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Good Germs, Bad Germs
Health and Survival in a Bacterial World

Hill and Wang
Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises...