The Complete Robot is a collection of 31 of the 37 science fiction short stories about robots by American writer Isaac Asimov, written between 1939 and 1977.
The Martian by Andy Weir
Call Number: PS3623.E446 M37 2014
ISBN: 9780804139021
Publication Date: 2014-02-11
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive...
The Story of the Human Body by Daniel E. Lieberman
Call Number: QP38 .L74 2014
ISBN: 9780307741806
Publication Date: 2014-07-01
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. He illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering; and how cultural changes have impacted us physically.
The Death Gap by David A. Ansell,
Call Number: RA418.3.U6 A57 2017
ISBN: 9780226428154
Publication Date: 2017-04-21
We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical--their health. The poor die sooner. Black people die sooner. And poor urban black people die sooner than almost all other Americans.
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Call Number: PS3607.E55 S75 2009
ISBN: 9781439116883
Publication Date: 2009-01-06
From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes the definitive--and illuminating--novel about Alzheimer's disease. The novel is about a woman who suffers early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland, a 50-year-old woman, is a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned linguistics expert.
Miracle Cure by William Rosen
Call Number: RM 409 .R67 2018
ISBN: 9780143110538
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma. As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development of a new category of medicine known as antibiotics.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi; Abraham Verghese (Foreword by)
Call Number: RC280.L8 K35 2016
ISBN: 9780812988406
Publication Date: 2016-01-12
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live.
Hungry Gene by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Call Number: RC628 .S48 2003
ISBN: 0802140335
Publication Date: 2003-09-15
In a rare blend of erudition and entertainment, acclaimed science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell reveals the secret history and subtle politics behind the explosion of obesity. Shell traces the epidemic's inception in the Ice Age, its rise during the Industrial Revolution, and its growth through the early days of medicine and into modernity.