Chosen Dozen: Scientific Reading List for Lay People

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The Botany of Desire

by Michael Pollan

“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed …
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Germs

by Judith Miller

In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that …
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The Hot Zone

by Richard Preston

The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome that even biohazard experts are terrified. It …
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

by Tracy Kidder

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that …
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