Genetics & DNA
The code of life — how genes shape who we are and what we become
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Scott Page
Princeton University Press, 2010.
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Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
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The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
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Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
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The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
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Nate Pedersen
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
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The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Mark Miodownik
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Rahul Jandial
Practical Strategies for Peak Health and Performance. Penguin, 2019.
Randall Munroe
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Walter Isaacson
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Simon and Schuster, 2021.
Jane Goodall
A Survival Guide for Trying Times. Celadon Books, 2021.
David A. Sinclair
Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To. Atria Books, 2019.
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How to Think, Speak, and Understand Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning. Wiley, 2021.
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Adam Rutherford
The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.
Scott Page
Princeton University Press, 2010.
Margot Lee Shetterly
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Richard Dawkins
The Long Reach of the Gene. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Carlo Rovelli
The Journey to Quantum Gravity. Penguin, 2016.
Alan Jasanoff
How Brain, Body, And Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are. Basic Books, 2018.
James Lovelock
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. The MIT Press, 2019.
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Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
James Lovelock
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. The MIT Press, 2019.
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Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
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The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
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A New History of a Lost World. William Morrow, 2018.
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When Breath Becomes Air. Random House, 2016.
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The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
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The Secret Life of the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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