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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 55,954 ratings
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The Jungle
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3.78 avg rating — 156,174 ratings
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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
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3.86 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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Did You Just Eat That?: Two Scientists Explore Double-Dipping, the Five-Second Rule, and other Food Myths in the Lab
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3.29 avg rating — 270 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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4.07 avg rating — 120,040 ratings
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The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World
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4.43 avg rating — 4,891 ratings
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Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation
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4.56 avg rating — 2,441 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 815,994 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,756 ratings
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Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
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4.37 avg rating — 47,400 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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4.32 avg rating — 790 ratings
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The Science of Good Cooking: Master 50 Simple Concepts to Enjoy a Lifetime of Success in the Kitchen
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4.44 avg rating — 3,177 ratings
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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3.70 avg rating — 507 ratings
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| 12 |
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Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
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4.55 avg rating — 97 ratings
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| 12 |
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The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
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4.48 avg rating — 787 ratings
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Loose on the Landscape: An Ecologist Looks for Meaning in the Wildest Places
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4.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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4.39 avg rating — 96,884 ratings
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A Community Guide to Environmental Health
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4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization
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4.01 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 211,317 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
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3.81 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
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4.15 avg rating — 2,945 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,756 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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4.19 avg rating — 388,164 ratings
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The Fight for Coal Mine Health and Safety: A Documented History
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
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4.11 avg rating — 2,926 ratings
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Koji Alchemy: Rediscovering the Magic of Mold-Based Fermentation
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4.53 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 233 ratings
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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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4.46 avg rating — 16,363 ratings
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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4.19 avg rating — 2,115 ratings
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The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America (California Studies in Food and Culture Book 41)
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3.93 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells
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4.04 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
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3.74 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Tiffin: Memories and Recipes of Indian Vegetarian Food
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4.15 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Wookwan's Korean Temple Food: The Road to the Taste of Enlightenment
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4.25 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Number One Chinese Restaurant
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7,180 ratings
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A Pho Love Story
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3.65 avg rating — 22,737 ratings
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| 39 |
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
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3.58 avg rating — 29,459 ratings
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The Donut King: The Rags to Riches Story of a Poor Immigrant Who Changed the World
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4.15 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
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3.92 avg rating — 701 ratings
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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3.93 avg rating — 5,104 ratings
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Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia
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4.03 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, From Homemade to Haute Cuisine
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3.82 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
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4.21 avg rating — 842 ratings
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| 46 |
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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
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3.54 avg rating — 669 ratings
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| 47 |
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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
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3.76 avg rating — 1,794 ratings
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
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3.67 avg rating — 4,649 ratings
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Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
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3.72 avg rating — 955 ratings
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Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World
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4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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4.09 avg rating — 4,732 ratings
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
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4.18 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.54 avg rating — 141,942 ratings
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| 54 |
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
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4.32 avg rating — 17,059 ratings
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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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3.75 avg rating — 2,215 ratings
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| 56 |
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Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish
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3.80 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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4.03 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
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4.12 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,775 ratings
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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4.23 avg rating — 32,659 ratings
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Pain Killer: A Wonder Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death
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4.02 avg rating — 3,053 ratings
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
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3.87 avg rating — 7,472 ratings
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The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
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3.98 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
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4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
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4.42 avg rating — 8,060 ratings
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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4.28 avg rating — 15,810 ratings
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Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity
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4.02 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
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4.03 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
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4.29 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases
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4.30 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World
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3.85 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,954 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,589 ratings
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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
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4.06 avg rating — 3,288 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 56,972 ratings
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When Winter Came: A country doctor's journey to fight the flu pandemic of 1918
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3.74 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 192,240 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.17 avg rating — 32,625 ratings
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Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World
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3.92 avg rating — 494 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer
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4.15 avg rating — 18,381 ratings
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
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4.22 avg rating — 3,874 ratings
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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3.94 avg rating — 12,119 ratings
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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3.90 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
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3.83 avg rating — 4,762 ratings
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House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21)
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4.19 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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4.16 avg rating — 4,021 ratings
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The Science of Influence: How to Get Anyone to Say "Yes" in 8 Minutes or Less!
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3.66 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Neuroselling: How to Get Anyone to Say Yes to whatever Offer You Make Using Sales Psychology
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 626,354 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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4.22 avg rating — 23,501 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.66 avg rating — 196,196 ratings
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Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
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4.32 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.20 avg rating — 90,048 ratings
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
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3.91 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
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4.32 avg rating — 3,136 ratings
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The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
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4.12 avg rating — 3,128 ratings
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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4.13 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
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When Smoke Ran Like Water :: Tales of Environmental deception &_the battle Against Pollution
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
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3.87 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.85 avg rating — 9,413 ratings
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