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Replaceable you : adventures in human anatomy
by Mary Roach
From the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz comes a rollicking exploration of the quest to recreate the impossible complexities of human anatomy including difficult questions prompted by the human body's failings. Illustrations.
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The big one : how we just prepare for future deadly pandemics
by Michael T Osterholm
Examining past outbreaks and the global response to Covid-19, this urgent analysis outlines the likelihood and potential severity of future pandemics, presenting a roadmap of scientific, political and societal steps needed to prepare for the far deadlier crises that may lie ahead.
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It doesn't have to hurt : your smart guide to a pain-free life
by Sanjay Gupta
Covering conventional and complementary approaches, including Mobilization Exercise Analgesia Treatment, foam rolling, acupuncture, trigger point injections, and vital“prehabilitation” before any operation, a bestselling doctor and neurosurgeon helps you reclaim your life from chronic pain and unlock a future of lasting relief.
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| A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and... by Christopher BrownNovelist Christopher Brown, after purchasing an urban land parcel in hopes of building a house, took notice of the abundance of foxes, snakes, owls, herons, and other forms of wildlife that were encroaching into his Austin, Texas neighborhood. His observations are a hopeful reminder of nature’s resilience in the face of human development in this “appealing mix of nature writing, memoir, and self-reflection” (Kirkus Reviews). |
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Phytopolis: The Living City
by Stefano Mancuso; translated by Gregory Conti
Stefano Mancuso, a neurobiologist specializing in plants, presents an original perspective on civilization, observing that humans have evolved from a generalist species (thriving in any environment) to a specialist one (only able to thrive in urban settings). Mancuso ideally imagines cities evolving along with their denizens to be more plant-based and sustainable in this thought-provoking translation. Try this next: Ashley Dawson’s Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change.
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Key to the city : how zoning shapes our world
by Sara C. Bronin
An eye-opening exploration of one of the little-known levers that controls our world--zoning codes--and a call-to-arms for using them to improve American society at every level
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Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies
by Geoffrey B West
"From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in. The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term "complexity" can be misleading, however, because what makes West's discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicitythat unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities and our businesses. Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science, creating a new understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes of mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. If you know the size of a mammal, you can use scaling laws to learn everything from how much food it eats per day, what its heart-rate is, how long it will take to mature, its lifespan, and so on. Furthermore, the efficiency of the mammal's circulatory systems scales up precisely based on weight: if you compare a mouse, a human and an elephant on a logarithmic graph, you find with every doubling of average weight, a species gets 25% more efficient--and lives 25% longer. This speaks to everything from how long we can expect to live to how many hours of sleep we need. Fundamentally, he has proven, the issue has to do with the fractal geometry of the networks that supply energy and remove waste from the organism's body"
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