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10 best books like The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy (Bill Hayes): On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves), The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis, Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius, Pox: An American History, Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine, Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights, The President's House: 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home, Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America, The Discovery of Insulin, Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited

On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)
AuthorJonnie Hughes
ISBN1439110239
Why do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very own “survival of the fittest”? And if so, does that explain why our species is so different from the rest of life on Earth? Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps...
The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
AuthorThomas Dormandy
ISBN1852853328
This is a history of tuberculosis, including its social, artistic and human impact. Thomas Dormandy's account of the search for the cure is complemented by a description of its complex natural history; portraits of individual sufferers, including writers, artists and musicians, whose lives were...
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
AuthorColin Dickey
ISBN1932961860
The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.

Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along...
Pox: An American History
AuthorMichael Willrich
ISBN1594202869
I simply loved this book. Willrich does an incredible job blending legal, public health, and cultural history. He manages to be critical of the Progressive Era without sounding anti-reform or anti-progress. In particular, I appreciated the way he talked about the relationship between the post-Civil...
Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine
AuthorStephen Braun
ISBN0140268456
Alcohol and caffeine are by far the most widely consumed mind-altering drugs in the world today. So shouldn't we know a little more about the substances which give us that much needed shot in the arm, or that take the edge off a rough day? In this endlessly entertaining and informative collection of coffee...
Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights
AuthorSteven M. Wise
ISBN0738208108
Are we ready for parrots and dolphins to be treated as persons before the law? In this unprecedented exploration of animal cognition along the evolutionary spectrum-from infants and children to other intelligent primates, from dolphins, parrots, elephants, and dogs to colonies of honeybees-Steve...
The President's House: 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
AuthorMargaret Truman
ISBN0345472489
As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in...
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
AuthorHenry Petroski
ISBN0679760210
Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women...
The Discovery of Insulin
AuthorMichael Bliss
ISBN0226058999
When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose diabetics back to life. In this now-classic study, Michael Bliss unearths a wealth of material, ranging from scientists& unpublished memoirs to the confidential...
Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited
AuthorMarcel Kuijsten
ISBN0979074401
Why are gods and idols ubiquitous throughout the ancient world? What is the relationship of consciousness and language? How is it that oracles came to influence entire nations such as Greece? If consciousness arose far back in human evolution, how can it so easily be altered in hypnosis and "possession"?...
The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience
AuthorMark Solms
ISBN1855759829
This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution, elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the nonspecialist reader on a guided tour through the exciting new discoveries, pointing out along the way how old psychodynamic concepts...
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
AuthorOwen J. Flanagan
If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science -- explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity -- then "the really hard problem," writes Owen Flanagan in this provocative book, is explaining how meaning is possible in the material world. How can...
His Brother's Keeper
AuthorJonathan Weiner
ISBN0060010088
His Brother's Keeper is a book about the epitome of the new biology: regenerative medicine. It tells the story of the epic line of cell research that is right now coming together with discoveries that take us across the borders of biology into some of its most fascinating and bewildering frontiers, including...
Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
AuthorGerald Imber
ISBN1607146274
A major new biography of the doctor who invented modern surgery. Brilliant, driven, but haunted by demons, William Stewart Halsted took surgery from a horrific, dangerous practice to what we now know as a lifesaving art. Halsted was born to wealth and privilege in New York City in the mid-1800s. He attended...
The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
AuthorPaul M. Churchland
ISBN0262531429
"Paul Churchland's "The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul" is an outstanding philosophical achievement, integrating artificial intelligence, brain neurology, cognitive psychology, ethnology, epistemology, scientific method, and even ethics and aesthetics, into an interlocking whole".
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Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language
AuthorMaxwell Richard Bennett
ISBN0231140444
In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003),...
Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow
AuthorZak Smith
ISBN0977312798
Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), set in an alternative-universe version of World War II, has been called a modern Finnegan’s Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With Pictures Showing What Happens on Each...
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
AuthorJohn Brockman
ISBN0684823446
Thirty-five years ago, C. P. Snow, in a now famous essay, wrote about the polarization of the "two cultures" -- literary intellectuals on the one hand, and scientists on the other. Although he hoped for the emergence of a "third culture" that would bridge the gap, it is only recently that science has changed...
White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
AuthorCarl Elliott
ISBN0807061425
Over the last twenty-five years, medicine and consumerism have been on an unchecked collision course, but, until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be fully uncovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the uncharted dark side of medicine, shining...
Blood Matters: A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier
AuthorMasha Gessen
ISBN0151013624
In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what...
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
AuthorAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN0521541751
Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than those perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this...
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
AuthorAlan Sokal
ISBN0199239207
When physicist Alan Sokal revealed that his 1996 article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," published in Social Text, was a hoax, the ensuing scandal made the front page of the New York Times and caused an uproar amongst the post-modernists...
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums
AuthorStephen T. Asma
ISBN0195163362
The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, there is more going...
Imagined Worlds
AuthorFreeman Dyson
ISBN0674539095
One hundred years after H. G. Wells visited the future in The Time Machine, Freeman Dyson marshals his uncommon gifts as a scientist and storyteller to take us once more to that ever-closer, ever-receding time to come. The stories he tells - about "Napoleonic" versus "Tolstoyan" styles of doing science;...
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