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The Emperor of All Maladies_ A Biography - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Amazon.com ReviewThe Emperor of All Maladies illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came in... -
The Astronaut Wives' Club
As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were tran... -
Strange Medicine A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages - Nathan Belofsky
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. ReviewPublishers Weekly-Belofsky (The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities) conjures... -
Steven D. Levitt - SuperFreakonomics
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Sleepless_in_Hollywood__Tales_From_the_New_Abnormal_in_the_Movie_Business_-_Lynda_Obst
The veteran producer and author of the bestseller Hello, He Lied takes a witty and critical look at the new Hollywood. Over the past decade, producer Lynda Obs... -
Sacks, Oliver - Oaxaca Journal (Vintage, 2012)
"I have been an inveterate keeper of journals since I was 14 especially at times of adventure and crisis and travel. Here, for the first time, such a journal made its way to public... -
Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations (Knopf, 2012)
From the best-selling author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a provocative investigation into hallucinations--auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory--thei... -
No Easy Day The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Kevin Maurer
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his... -
Laura Hillenbrand - Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival
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