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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction health memoir science informative reflective medium-paced
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

Jordan Ellenberg

480 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction mathematics psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

426 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science by Alice Dreger

Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science

Alice Dreger

352 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction history politics science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

Rebecca Stott

432 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

3.0mchester24's review
nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

Daniel Yergin

805 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction economics history adventurous informative medium-paced
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

John Allen Paulos

208 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

3.0mchester24's review
nonfiction education mathematics science informative medium-paced
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

176 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

3.0mchester24's review
nonfiction essays feminism politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor by Mark Schatzker

The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

Mark Schatzker

259 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0mchester24's review
nonfiction food and drink health science informative medium-paced
More Than Honey: The Survival of Bees and the Future of Our World by Claus-Peter Lieckfeld, Markus Imhoof

More Than Honey: The Survival of Bees and the Future of Our World

Claus-Peter Lieckfeld, Markus Imhoof

152 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

2.0mchester24's review
nonfiction science adventurous challenging informative slow-paced