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The Myth of Normal (2022) unpacks why chronic disease and mental illness are on the rise. Western medicine focuses on individual pathologies, but what if the key actually lies in our culture? Things we consider normal – like stress, adversity, and trauma – are often toxic and breed disease. The pathway back to health rests in identifying and addressing these underlying conditions.

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Dr. Gabor Maté is a Canadian physician with over four decades of clinical experience, who is known for his work treating addiction in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood of Vancouver. He has written four best-selling books, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and Hold On to Your Kids.

Daniel Maté is an award-winning lyricist and composer based in Brooklyn, who has written several stage plays and musicals. This is his third book collaboration with his father, Gabor.

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No Cure for Being Human (2021) is the thoughtful chronicle of Kate Bowler’s attempts to make the most of her life after a brutal cancer diagnosis at only 35. Part memoir, part critique of the widespread obsession with positivity, No Cure for Being Human is a poignant dispatch from the fragile border between life and death.

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Kate Bowler is a professor of the history of Christianity at Duke University. She’s published scholarly works on evangelism and the self-help industry while also gaining a popular following for her life writing with the New York Times best-selling title Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved) and her newest release No Cure for Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear).

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Uncontrolled Spread (2021) takes an unsparing look at the many problems the United States faced when confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Through a combination of factors, the US was unprepared for what occurred. But it’s possible to learn from this tragedy and make sure that it doesn’t happen again.

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Scott Gottlieb is the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the US. He is also a contributor to CNBC and sits on the board of directors at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and is considered one of the “50 People Transforming Healthcare” by Time magazine.

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Shutdown (2021) explores the unprecedented shock COVID-19 dealt the world economy. The story begins with the revelation of the disease in January 2020 by Chinese President Xi Jinping and ends precisely a year later with the inauguration of US President Joe Biden, and through this history, Shutdown shows how markets and governments reeled from the blow, how they regained their footing, and what we might learn for the next worldwide crisis.

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Alan Tooze is a professor of economic history at Columbia University and the author of numerous award-winning books, including The Wages of Destruction, a history of the Nazi economy, Deluge, which traces the fallout of the First World War, and Crashed, an autopsy of the Great Recession.

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Vaxxers (2021) follows the race to develop a functional vaccine to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Professor Sarah Gilbert and Dr. Catherine Green, of the University of Oxford, deliver captivating and informative insight into the process of designing, testing, and manufacturing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in record time. They recount exciting moments of innovation, as well as the hurdles faced along the way.

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Professor Sarah Gilbert is Saïd Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford and the co-founder of Vaccitech, a biotechnology company which develops vaccines and immunotherapies. Professor Gilbert specializes in developing vaccines for various viruses, including influenza, and co-developed the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. This is her first book.

Dr. Catherine Green is Associate Professor in Chromosome Dynamics at the University of Oxford’s Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. Along with Professor Gilbert, Dr. Green also worked on developing the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Though she is the author of numerous research studies, this is her first book.

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The Reckoning (2021) is an unflinching look at contemporary American society. This sharp treatise draws informative connections between the nation’s traumas and its current issues.

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Mary L. Trump holds a PhD in clinical psychology from Adelphi University and is the author of the best seller Too Much and Never Enough. She is the niece of former US President Donald Trump.

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The Epigenetics Revolution (2011) is an overview of the cutting-edge field of epigenetics – looking at the various factors that interact with your genes and modify the way they behave in order to make you, you. From mental health to obesity, it examines the fascinating and often unexpected ways that epigenetics can influence our lives and health.

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Nessa Carey has a PhD in virology from the University of Edinburgh and was formerly a senior lecturer in molecular biology at Imperial College, London. She now runs Carey International Impact Training and is the author of two other books, Junk DNA and Hacking the Code of Life.

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The XX Brain (2020) is a practical guide to improving women’s brain health and preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Women are suffering from an Alzheimer’s epidemic, but so far the medical industry isn’t doing much about it. The XX Brain shows you how to take your health into your own hands, demand the medical treatment you deserve, and take concrete steps to help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s.

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Daniel M. Davis is an immunologist whose research focuses on methods of communication between immune cells. His use of microscopy to observe an immune response led to his codiscovery of immune synapses and membrane nanotubes. He is the Director of Research at the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research and the author of The Compatibility Gene.

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The Great Influenza (2004) is the authoritative history of the 1918 influenza pandemic, estimated to have killed 5 percent of the world’s total human population. Author John M. Barry examines the scientific, social, and political context of the pandemic, questioning the extent to which human error and willful ignorance worsened the terrible consequences of the disease. Coming right on the heels of World War I, the pandemic changed the course of history in ways too numerous, and impactful, to fully reckon with – until now.

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Deadliest Enemy (2017) is a sobering warning about the serious threat that infectious diseases pose to modern life. Using examples like Ebola, SARS, and Zika, this arresting primer on epidemiology spells out how diseases emerge, spread, and become pandemics.

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Dr. Michael Osterholm is a world-renowned epidemiologist. He is the founding director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota as well as the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health.

Mar Olshaker is a New York Times bestselling writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His previous work on criminal psychology is the basis for the hit television series Mindhunter.

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Crisis in the Red Zone (2019) presents an engrossing account from the front lines of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. From the first infected patient through the many lives claimed before the crisis was resolved, this is a tragic and hopeful story of what happens when a hidden and dangerous virus reveals itself.

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Richard Preston is an award-winning author who has taught nonfiction writing at both the University of Iowa and Princeton University. His previous books include The Hot Zone (1994), The Wild Trees (2007) and The Demon in the Freezer (2007).

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The Mosquito (2019) provides a sweeping tour of human history with a novel twist. As it follows the course of the pivotal events that shaped the world in which we live today, it draws attention to some of the most important but under-appreciated factors that have influenced those events: the mosquito and the deadly diseases it carries.

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Timothy C. Winegard is a professor of history and political science at Colorado Mesa University. He has a PhD in history from the University of Oxford. A former officer of the Canadian and British armed forces, he specializes in military history and indigenous studies. He has written four other books, including The First World Oil War (2016) and For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War (2008).

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