Biology, Medicine, History, Health, Nature
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Siddhartha Mukherjee: Award-Winning Science Writer
"About the Author:
Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013.
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s THE GENE: An Intimate History is his latest work – the story of the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans, that governs our form, function, and fate and determines the future of our children.
Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and Cell. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters."
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History, Geology, Michigan
About the location: PappaRoti - Known for its signature buns, this coffee shop also serves lattes, cappuccinos, and other coffee drinks, in addition to teas, smoothies, milkshakes, and fresh juices.
Paul Brandes - Geologist/Professor
"I have been interested in minerals and the earth sciences ever since I can remember. Growing up on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan, I had access to some of the best mineral collecting and mining history in the world."
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Chemistry, History, Illustrated, Biography
Tom Jackson
"Tom Jackson has been a writer for more than 20 years. He has written more than 100 books and contributed to many more, covering everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. His specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working in zoos and as a conservationist. He’s mucked out polar bears and fed the penguins, planted trees in Somerset, surveyed Vietnamese jungle and rescued wildlife from drought in Africa. Writing jobs have also taken him to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rain forest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Today, Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children, and can be found mostly in the attic."
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Our Books By the Numbers
We have over 140 books...
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Einstein: His Life and Universe
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
When Breath Becomes Air
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Great Penguin Rescue
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Heart: A History
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Bitter Almonds: The True Story of Mothers, Daughters, and the Seattle Cyanide Murders
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education
The Birds of Pandemonium
Uncle Tungsten
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
Doctored: The Disillunsionment of an American Physician
Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor's Search for the Perfect Match
The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
Lessons from Plants
Silent Spring
The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
The Story of Trees: And How They Changed the World
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
The Snow Leopard
Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century
Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
It's Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in Everything
Lab Girl
The Other Einstein
Chemistry
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of It's Greatest Inventors
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Tale of the Deuling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynam
What Do You Care What Other People Think
Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
The Science of Cooking: Every Question Anwered to Perfect your Cooking
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Sympohony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Descruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Persepctives on Civilization
Braiding Sweetgrass
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Big Book of Blooms
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
Chemistry of Medals
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
The Brilliant Abyss
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
Great Lakes Sea Lamprey: The 70 Year War on a Biological Invader
Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Michigan Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Great Lakes State
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Taking Flight: The evolutionary story of life on the wing
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
The Brill Pill
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Starborn: How the Stars Made Us
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes our Bodies and Minds
The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
Poison Town
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
Great Lakes Champions: Grassroots Efforts to Clean Up Polluted Watersheds
Waterfront Porch: Reclaiming Detroit's Industrial Waterfront as a Gathering Place for All
The Melting World: A Journey Across America's Vanishing Glaciers
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas
Feynman
Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
Hawking
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
When Science Goes Wrong: The Desire and Search for Truth
Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist
Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know it
The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through
Cloudspotting for Beginners
We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans
The Orchid Thief
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
How Great Thinkers Transformed Our Ideas: Share the Insights of Newton, Hawking, Curie and Other Geniuses
Lessons in Chemistry
-Last updated September 2024-