Books that explain science to general readers: the brain, the body, the environment, energy and the way research works, mostly written by scientists and clinicians.
A small shelf, but a useful one for curious readers who want an expert to walk them through a field.
This shelf holds 22 books. Publication years run from 2017 to 2026. 4 of them have an audiobook edition. The most-rated on Amazon are The Search for the Perfect Protein, Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails, The Survival Paradox. The list below is sorted by how many ratings each book has on Amazon, so the most-read titles come first.
Dr. David Minkoff
Proteins are the basic building blocks of the human body. But most people are malnourished in amino acids, which are required to form protein, a deficiency that can lead to diabetes, obesity, cancer, and chronic diseases. It's a serious problem for which Dr.…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The book investigates the misapplication of conventional statistical techniques to fat tailed distributions and looks for remedies, when possible. Switching from thin tailed to fat tailed distributions requires more than changing the color of the dress.…
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Isaac Eliaz · 2021
Cancer. Organ failure. Accelerated aging. Can a single “survival molecule” fuel our most deadly and devastating health concerns? The truth is, the very biochemical mechanisms the body uses to survive are actually making us sick. This is the survival paradox.…
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A Story of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
Dan Engle · 2021
MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD is in the final stages of FDA testing. Clinical trials are reporting a 70 percent cure rate for a condition that claims thousands of lives globally every day, hundreds in the US alone. But until it’s fully legalized, MDMA is…
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Robert Saik · 2019
Food has become the new religion. While denominations such as paleo, vegan, and organic debate which is "the way," we're ignoring a truth that affects us all: to support a population nearing 10 billion by 2050, agriculture must become infinitely sustainable. …
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C.P. Schaefer · Audiobook
• Literary Titan Silver Book Award Winner Jan 2024 •An astronomer and his team battle madness and cosmic chaos to save Earth. Will Vandolah is stationed on the gigantic research outpost, GAIA 3, on Saturn’s moon, Titan. However, its living ecosphere is dying…
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Nathaniel Eliason · 2025
EDITOR'S PICK: "A riveting debut that blends post-apocalyptic adventure with conspiracy-based sci-fi thriller... Eliason's energetic pacing, entertaining characters, and crisp world-building create smart, satisfying reading. A promising start to a series." -…
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Ronald P. Gruber · 2023
Time does not exist, according to modern physics. Yet somehow you experience it in all its dynamic, flowing glory. You don’t really move through time as a single persisting being, so feeling that you’re not the same person as before is literally true. Last…
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Brian Keating · 2025 · Audiobook
What’s the secret behind the world’s most brilliant scientific minds? It’s not just intelligence, it’s focus. In this inspiring follow-up to Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, physicist and author Brian Keating reveals how Nobel laureates harness deep…
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Aldrich Chan · 2025 · Audiobook
Of all relationships, the connection between humanity and nature is most sacred. For more than 2,500 years, humans have strayed from nature, challenging humanity with immeasurable consequences. In 7 Principles of Nature, neuropsychologist Aldrich Chan…
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Evan Allen · 2019
Saturated fats used to be as easy to discuss with patients as cigarettes: avoid them! But for the past fifteen years, we've been drowned in a sea of misinformation created by the food industry. This deliberate distortion of the truth ignores decades of…
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Zoltan Cendes · 2025 · Audiobook
How can we determine what truly exists? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the purpose of consciousness? If you’ve wrestled with life’s deepest questions and found traditional answers wanting, The Objectivist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Zoltan…
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Kevin Talbot
What started out as a better phone has not only become a super-computer in everyone’s pocket but a platform enabling everything from robotics to drones and self-driving cars, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. These are the things that science…
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Nathaniel Eliason · 2026
“Be careful. If Felix finds you reading this, I can only imagine what might happen to you.”As a mysterious plague threatens to end civilization, disgraced tech mogul Felix Craft claims he’s conquered death itself. He’s invited journalist Rohan Patel to tell…
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Gunjan Bhardwaj · 2019
The modern system of drug discovery and development is broken. Development costs are so high that pharmaceutical companies can only afford to develop blockbuster drugs that will be worth at least $1 billion annually and take a decade to come to market.…
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Roger Bejjani
Humanity's strength as a species is about to become our downfall. Due to the size of our population and our increasing life expectancy, humanity is facing an existential threat-one that will cause our world model to collapse by the middle of the twenty-first…
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Daniel Minier · 2017
Thanks to developments in our society, we're living longer these days. Yet those extra years can often come with health issues that seem unavoidable. After hearing so many of his patients' concerns about getting older, dermatologist Daniel Minier was inspired…
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James Baker · 2023
The future of humanity can go one of three ways:1. We annihilate ourselves and go extinct2. We continue to muddle along3. We learn to live forever and fix everythingThis is a book about option three. It is based on science we have today and numbers that work.…
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Thomas Guttuso · 2023
For most patients, a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s places a looming specter over the future without any proven treatment to stop the inevitable progression of symptoms. Based on a serendipitous discovery in a patient with Parkinson’s, The Promise of…
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by Sam Miller (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Sam Miller · 2022
The conventional approach to dieting is fundamentally flawed. Metabolism Made Simple offers a better solution. You can change your body and your health for the better without quick-fix gimmicks or fad diets. In Metabolism Made Simple, health, fitness, and…
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Violet Ford · 2021
Dinosaurs evolved faster than we previously thought. We’ve seen a similarly fast evolution occurring with paediatric clinical research in light of global legislative changes, increasing commitment by pharmaceutical companies and urgency for high-quality…
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Baz Edmeades · 2021
Ecological competition began as slow arms races. Predators evolved to hunt. Prey evolved to defend themselves. Each improvement was small, barely shifting the odds of survival. Nature remained in equilibrium. Until the dawn of humanity. When our ancestors…
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