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The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Paul Starr
Basic Books
Basic Books
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two...
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
If the first 270 pages of this book had been published separately, they would have made up a lively, insightful, beautifully written history of theoretical physics and the men and women who plumbed the mysteries of the atom. Along with the...
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Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for loneliness and what to do about it. John T. Cacioppo's groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry....
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Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine
Harriet Beinfield, Efrem Korngold
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books
Two of the foremost American educators and healers in the Chinese medical profession demystify Chinese medicine's centuries-odl approach to health. Combining Eastern traditions with Western sensibilities in a unique blend that is relevant today,...
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Daniel C. Dennett
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask whyand howit has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the...
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