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H4.5, E3.0, R2.4JohnAbramson, M.D., M.Sc.   Sickening: How [Government &] Big Pharma Broke USA Health Care (288 pages; ISBN 9781328957818; OCLC 1240491462; HarperCollins; 338.47615 Abr; Main+Jax)
H4.5, E3.0, R3.4Amir R.Alexander   Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World (math; 352 pages; 511 Ale; Main; pretty good, but in the end disappointing, stopped short, incomplete)
H4.5, E3.0, R3.4ArthurAllen   Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest LifeSaver (disease; 523 pages; 614.470973 All)
H4.5, E3.5, R2.7NatalieAngier  TheCanon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (magniloquent, too clever by half, with botched percentages & proportions... & slightly out-of-date; 270 pages; 500 Ang; Main+NE+East)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0IsaacAsimov  TheChemicals of Life
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0IsaacAsimov  TheHuman Brain
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0IsaacAsimov   Understanding Physics: The Electron, Proton, & Neutron
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0IsaacAsimov  TheWellSprings of Life
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0Tony/AnthonyAttwood  TheComplete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome (390-400-412 pages; ISBN 9781843106692; OCLC 964901167; Jessica Kingsley; 616.8588 Att)

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H4.0, E3.0, R1.5FrancisBacon of VerulamFulton H.AndersonTheNew Organon and Related Writings (292 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2James E.Baggott   FareWell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth (338 pages; 530)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2SimonBaron-Cohen  TheEssential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain (230 pages; 155.33 Bar; Main+E)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2SimonBaron-Cohen  ThePattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention -- A 70K-100K-Year History_ (a little too much pop-psych, but not hideous; 200 pages; ISBN 9781541647145; OCLC ; Basic/ Hachette; libraries; 616.85882 Bar; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.5John M.Barry  TheGreat Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (disease; 546 pages; 614.518 Bar; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9Susan WiseBauer  TheStory of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory (256 pages; ISBN 9780393243260; Norton; 509 Bau)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5Wayne M.BeckerDavid W.Deamer, Peter B. Armstrong, Joel W. Goodman, David N. Gunn & Jeanette E. NatzleTheWorld of the Cell_ (866 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5AlexBerenson   Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives_ (350-400-454-464 pages; ISBN 9781684512485; OCLC 1273914484; Regnery; St.Johns/St.Augustine, Lee/Lehigh Acres, WPB, Alachua, Bradford/Starke, West Florida/Pensacola, Pasco-Hernando, Volusia, Seminole, Orange, Sarasota, Brevard, Collier/Naples, North Palm Beach, Rats Mouth, Miami-Dade; 320 Ber; Main+Woodville; due 2024-03-07)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2TomBethell  ThePolitically Incorrect Guide to Science (270 pages; 509.73)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5EulaBiss   On Immunity: An Inoculation_ (200 pages; 616.079; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2Elizabeth HelenBlackburn, Ph.D.ElissaEpel, Ph.D.TheTelomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer (telomerase; 340-360-380 pages; 15MB; 572.87 Bla; Main+Jax+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5CarlBoyer  TheHistory of the Calculus & Its Conceptual Development
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5Peter RogerBregginGinger RossBreggin Talking Back to Prozac
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8SpikeBriggs, M.D.CampbellMacKenzie, MD OutDoor Medical Emergency HandBook: First Aid for Travelers, BackPackers, & Adventurers (234 pages; 616.02)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7LouannLouann Brizendine, M.D.  TheMale Brain_ (needs more brain images color-coded for regions; diagrams of bio-chemical sequences; 140 pages; Broadway/ Crown/ RandomHouse; 612.8 Bri; Main+Jax)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.2David E.Brown   Inventing Modern America: From the MicroWave to the Mouse (609.73)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.1JeremyBrown   Influenza: The 100 Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History_ (disease; 614.518 Bro; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5Theodore L.BrownH. EugeneLeMay ii & Bruce E. Bursten Chemistry: The Central Science
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H4.0, E3.0, R1.5RobertBryce   Smaller, Faster, Lighter, Denser, Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong (tech, engineering, gravimetric power density, economics, science, history; 390 pages; 9MB; 24 chapters, c.530 minutes; he was doing great until he got to advocating funny-money & worsening over-crowding in chapters 11 & 12)
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H4.0, E3.0, R3.0BillBryson  AShort History of Nearly Everything

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H4.0, E3.0, R3.0William H.Calvin   How Brains Think
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Frances A.Carey   Organic Chemistry (1154 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8NessaCarey   Junk DNA: A Journey through the Dark Matter of the Genome (340 pages; 572.86; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0Neil R.Carlson   Physiology of Behavior
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0Nicholas G.Carr  TheShallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (neuro; 276-294 pages; ISBN 9780393357820; OCLC 1102473505?/ 1102473509?; Norton; Pasco-Hernando State Colleg/Spring Hill; 612.80285 Car; Main; QP 360 .C3667 2020)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8Sean B.Carroll, Ph.D.  TheMaking of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (301 pages; 572.86 Car; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.2Catherine A.Carver   Immune: How Your Body Defends & Protects You (disease; 304 pages; 2.9MB; 616.079 Car; NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0RitaCeponiene et al. Event-related potential (ERP) indices of central auditory development in healthy children and in children with oral clefts
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0JorgeChamDanielWhiteson We Have No Idea: A Guide to the UnKnown Universe (354 pages; 523.1 Cha; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0MarilynChase  TheBarbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (1894-; 276 pages; 362.1 Cha; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0AndyClark   Surfing UnCertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind (401 pages; 128.2; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5Charles B.Clayman  TheBrain & Nervous System
H4.0, E3.0, R2.4James A.Coleman   Early Theories of the Universe
H4.0, E3.0, R3.4StephenCoss  TheFever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American [USA] Politics (disease; smallpox; 320 pages; 616.912 Cos; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0DanielCoyle  TheTalent Code
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Robert P.CreaseAlfred ScharffGoldhaberTheQuantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love UnCertainty_ (332 pages; 530.12 CRE; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0Molly CaldwellCrosby  TheAmerican Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (290 pages; 614.541)

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CharlesDarwin  TheOrigin of Species
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5Daniel MichaelDavis  TheCompatiblity Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves (231 pages; 616.042; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5RichardDawkins  TheBlind WatchMaker (325 pages; 575; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0RichardDawkins  TheSelfish Gene
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0Robde SalleSusan L.Perkins & Patricia J. Wynne Welcome to the MicroBiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria & Other Microbes In, On, & Around You (220 pages; YaleU; 579.3 deS)
H4.0, E3.0, R1.1DavidDeutsch  TheFabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes -- and Its Implications (366 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R1.5Diagram Group   Man's Body: An Owner's Manual
H4.0, E3.0, R1.5 Diagram Group   Woman's Body: An Owner's Manual
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5John E.Dowling   Creating Mind
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5K. EricDrexler   Engines of Creation (nano-tech)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.3Rob R.Dunn  TheWildLife of Our Bodies (260 pages; 579.17)

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H4.0, E3.0, R3.4David J.Epstein   Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (339 pages; 2.4MB; 153.9 Eps; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.7Karl AndersEricssonRobertPool Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (330 pages; 5MB; 153.9 Eri; Main+NE)

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H4.0, E3.0, R2.7StuartFirestein   Ignorance: How It Drives Science (195 pages; ISBN 9780199828074; OCLC 752069074; LCCN 2011051395; OxfordU; libraries; 501.9 Fir; Main+NE; due 2023-07-09)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.3Helen E.Fisher   Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy (biochem)
H3.5, E3.0, R3.5Jeffrey A.Fisher   Rx 2000: Breakthroughs in Health, Medicine & Longevity by the Year 2000 & Beyond
H3.5, E3.0, R3.2Richard A.Fortey   Trilobite: EyeWitness to Evolution_ (490Mya-440Mya; Ordovician; 284-320 pages; ISBN 0375406255; OCLC 1016531328; Knopf; 565.39 For; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0GordonFraser   AntiMatter: The Ultimate Mirror (207 pages; 530 Fra; Main)
H4.5, E3.5, R1.5DavidFreedmanRobertPisani & Roger Purves Statistics
H4.5, E3.5, R3.0Joseph StewartFruton  ASkeptical BioChemist_ (264 pages; 574.192)

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H4.0, E3.0, R3.2MurrayGell-Mann  TheQuark & the Jaguar
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5LouisaGilder  TheAge of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was ReBorn_ (physics; 360-443 pages; ISBN 9781400044177; OCLC 316030748; Vintage/Knopf; Santa Fe/Hogtown, Jax, Nassau/Fernandina Beach, UWF/Pensacola, Dunedin, Hillsborough/Tampa, UCF/Orlando, Polk State College/Winter Haven, New College/Sarasota, Florida SouthWestern State College/Fort Myers, WPB, Lynn U/Rats Mouth, FAU/Rats Mouth, Broward/Ft.Lauderdale, FIU/Miami, UMiami/Coral Gables; QC 174.12 .G528 2008; 530.12 Gil; Main)
H4.5, E3.5, R3.0JamesGleick   Chaos
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2JeffGoldberg   Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery (endorphins)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.4Stephen JayGould   Hen's Teeth & Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2BrianGreene  TheElegant Universe
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5JohnGribbin   In Search of Schroedinger's Cat
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2JohnGribbin   Q Is for Quantum: Particle Physics from A to Z_ (physics; would be better with index; 595 pages; ISBN 9780684855783; Free; 539.703 Gri; Main)

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H4.5, E3.5, R2.5RobertHaasSteveDiamond Eat Smart Think Smart: How to Use Nutrients & Supplements to Achieve Maximum Mental & Physical Performance
H4.5, E3.5, R2.5RobertHaasSteveDiamond Eat to Win
H4.0, E3.0, R4.5B. DavidHamesN.M.Hooper Instant Notes Biochemistry (403 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8Eugene E.Harris, Ph.D.   Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution (DNA; a little bit behind the state-of-the-art; 205 pages; ISBN 9780199978038; OCLC 1107351631; OxfordU; libraries; 611.018166 Har; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Bruce A.Hathaway   Barron's E-Z Organic Chemistry_ (547; 424 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.2Stephen W.Hawking  ABrief History of Time
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5Brent H.HawkingCarterSmith iii & Charles H. Calisher Mapping Epidemics: An Historical Atlas of Disease (disease; 112 pages; ISBN 9780531164877; OCLC 318415839; Franklin Watts/Grolier; 614.4 Hof; BLPerry/UNF)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8HalHellman   Great Feuds in Science: 10 of the Liveliest Disputes Ever (240 pages; ISBN 0471169803 ; OCLC ; Wiley; libraries; 509.22 Hel; Main; due 2024-05-22; did fine up to last 2 chapters, then fell flat)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.2AbramHofferMortonWalker Smart Nutrients
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9JoanHorvathRichard H.Cameron Geometry: Learn by [Programming], 3D Printing, & Building_/_Make: Geometry: Learn by 3D Printing, [Programming], & Exploring (geometry; with Communist Corpse Standards; 285 pages; ISBN 9781680456714; O'Reilly/Make; 516.00285 Hor; Main+BLPerry)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Sue E.HuetherKathryn L.McCance, Margaret M. Andrews, Barbara J. Boss,
Gale D. Danek, Sheryl S. Davey, Judith A. Farley,
Cyrena M. Gilman, Sandra W. Haak, Lynn B. Jorde,
Melva Kravitz, Patti Ludwig-Beymer, Frances Lynn McCullough,
Kathleen Hardin Mooney, Leona A. Mourad, Noreen Heer Nicol,
Lee K. Roberts, Kristynia M. Robinson, Neal S. Rote,
Jane Shelby, Peter M. Sunderland, Susan B. Zekauskus
 Understanding PathoPhysiology (1,136 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8RhondaHuettenmueller   PreCalculus DeMystified (pg343: define what makes this matrix operation "useful"; Why? What's the history?; 534 pages; ISBN 9780071778497/ 9780071439275; OCLC 1027899455/ 748333156; LCCN 2011042119; McGraw-Hill; Jax, FL State College Jax, Clay county, Marion, Pasco, Pensacola State, Lake; 515.2 Hue; Main; ILL request 214317; due 2024-01-31)

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H4.0, E3.0, R2.5James W.Kalat   Biological Psychology
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8Michael S.Kinch   Between Hope and Fear: An History of Vaccines and Human Immunity (disease; 334 pages; 17.2MB; 614.47 Kin; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.4MorrisKline   Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0AlexanderKompaneyetsLeonLandovitz Basic Concepts in Quantum Mechanics
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0MelvinKonner   Why the Reckless Survive
H4.0, E3.0, R2.2HelgeKragh   Simply Dirac (100 pages; 530.092)

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H4.0, E3.0, R2.5BrianLeibovitz   Carnitine: The Vitamin BT Phenomenon
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5SuzanneLeVert   Melatonin: The Anti-Aging Hormone
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0PaulLewisDavidRubinsteinTheHuman Body

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H4.0, E3.0, R2.4HowardMarkel, M.D.   When Germs Travel: 6 Major Epidemics That Have Invaded the USA and the Fears They Have UnLeashed (disease; 263 pages; 1.8MB; ISBN 0375420959; Pantheon; 614.4973 Mar; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7David M.McMahon   Quantum Mechanics DeMystified (math; physics; 393-506 pages; ISBN 0071765638/ 9780071765633; OCLC 870421776; McGraw-Hill; 530.12 McM)
H4.0, E3.0, R1.9JohnMedina   Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (288 pages; 612.82 Med; Jax+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0David S.MooreGeorge P.McCabe Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
H4.5, E3.0, R2.7Mary CapertonMorton   Aerial Geology: A High-Altitude Tour of North America's Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks (303 pages; 106.6MB; ISBN 9781604697629; Timber; 557 Mor; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5JimMurphy  AnAmerican Plague: The True Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (disease; 373 pages; 931KB; J 614.541 Mur; Main+NE+Jax+BLPerry+FtBraden)

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H4.0, E3.0, R3.5ErnestNagelJames R.Newman Goedel's Proof
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Eugene W.NesterC. EvansRoberts & Martha T. Nester MicroBiology: A Human Perspective (785 pages)

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H4.0, E3.0, R3.5Paul A.Offit, M.D.   Pandora's Lab: 7 Stories of Science Gone Wrong_ (270 pages; ISBN 9781426217982; OCLC 957223250; National Geographic; 001.96; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.4Paul A.Offit, M.D.   Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information (260 pages; 362.1014 Off; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2SteveOlson   Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (278 pages; 599.9)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5JimOttavianiLelandMyrick & Hilary Sycamore Feynman (266 pages; biography Richard Feynman; due 2024-03-14)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0DavidOwenThomasNoguchi & Kathy Reichs Hidden Evidence: 40 True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them_ (240 pages; 2000)

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H4.0, E2.5, R2.4JoePalcaFloraLichtman Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us_ (262 pages; 612.8 Pal; National Socialist Radio; a little too much pop-psych, not enough neuro-physiology)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5JonPalfreman   Brain Storms: The Race to UnLock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease (251 pages; 616.833)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.2CatherineParkerNorma JaneKolthoff TextBook of Anatomy and Physiology
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0Richard A.Passwater   SuperNutrition
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0LinusPauling   Vitamin C, the Common Cold, & the Flu
H4.0, E3.0, R2.2John AllenPaulos   Innumeracy
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9JudeaPearlDanaMacKenzieTheBook of Why: New Hypotheses about Cause and Effect (418 pages; 35.5MB; 501 Pea; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.3DurkPearsonSandyShaw Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach
H4.0, E3.0, R3.3DurkPearsonSandyShawTheLife Extension Companion
H4.0, E3.0, R1.2RogerPenroseAbnerSimony, Nancy Cartwright & Stephen HawkingTheLarge, the Small and the Human Mind (201 pages; 006.3)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Ralph H.PetrucciWilliam S.HarwoodGeneral Chemistry: Principles and Modern Applications (1060 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5WalterPierpaoliWilliamRegelson & Carol ColmanTheMelatonin Miracle
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9J.C.Polkinghorne  TheQuantum World
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0EvePottsMarionMorra Understanding the Immune System

Q H4.0, E3.0, R3.0DavidQuammen  TheTangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Carl Woese; horizontal gene exchange; endosymbiosis; taxonomic tree/forest of life; 461-480 pages; ISBN 9781476776620/ 9781476776637; OCLC ; Simon&Schuster; 591.38; Main+NE+E)

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H4.0, E3.0, R3.0MartinRees   Just Six Numbers (165 pages; 523.1)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5DavidReichEugenieReich Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA & the New Science of the Human Past (335 pages; 30.7MB; 572.86 Rei; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Richard M.Restak  TheBrain
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Richard M.Restak  TheModular Brain
H4.5, E3.5, R2.7MattRichtel  AnElegant Defense: The ExtraOrdinary New Science of the Immune System (disease; 315-425-448 pages; ISBN 97800298537; OCLC 147637616; Mariner; Jax, Pensacola State, St.Johns, Tarpon Springs; 616.079 Ric; Main+NE; needs fewer photos, 5-15 more diagrams; a few hundred source citations & biographical links for the researchers might also have been helpful)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0MattRidley  TheRed Queen: Sex & the Evolution of Human Nature
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0MattRidley   Genome: The AutoBiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (344 pages; ISBN 978006194979; HarperCollins; 599.935 Rid; NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Ronald A.RudenMarciaMyalickTheCraving Brain

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H4.0, E3.0, R3.3OliverSacks  TheMan Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0CarlSaganTheCosmic Connection
H4.0, E3.0, R1.2CarlSagan  TheDragons of Eden
H3.0, E3.0, R1.2Ronald L.Seibold   Cereal Grass: Nature's Greatest Health Gift
H4.0, E3.0, R3.4SergioSismondo   Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma's InVisible Hands (231-234 pages; ISBN 9780995527775; Mattering; https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/upload/2018/07/Sismondo-managed-Medicine-2018-1.pdf )
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0GarySmith   Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics_ (326 pages; 2.8MB; 519.5; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5LeeSmolin, Ph.D.   3 Roads to Quantum Gravity (250 pages; 3.9MB)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8LeeSmolin, Ph.D.   The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next (392-416 pages; 3.3MB; ISBN 9780618918683/ 9780141018355; OCLC 942592494; Penguin/Houghton Mifflin; 530.14; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0Murray R.Spiegel   Theory & Problems of Statistics
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Laura J.Stevens  TheComplete Book of Allergy Control
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5Stephen M.Stigler  The7 Pillars of Statistical Wisdom (203 pages; ISBN 9780674088917; OCLC ; HarvardU; libraries; 519.5 Sti; Main; due 2024-02-08)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0ChrisStringer   Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth (336 pages; 599.938; Main+E)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5ThomasSuddendorf  TheGap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals (340 pages; 156)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9LeonardSusskindGeorgeHrabovskyTheTheoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics_ (230 pages; 3.1MB; 530; use plenty of duct tape and an ice-cap to prevent explosive brain expansion and/or melt-down)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7Shanna H.Swan  TheCount Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male & Female Reproductive Development, & Imperiling the Future of the Human Race (makes a few false claims; needs a better index; 292 pages; ISBN 9781982113667; OCLC ; Scribner/Simon&Schuster; 612.6 Swa; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0BryanSykes  The 7 Daughters of Eve

T H4.0, E3.0, R3.4Jill BolteTaylor, Ph.D.   My Stroke of InSight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (neuroscience; 190 pages; 3MB; LT 362.1968 Tay) H4.0, E3.0, R2.4Silvanus PhillipsThompson   Calculus Made Easy H4.0, E3.0, R3.8TorkelKlingberg  TheOverFlowing Brain: Information OverLoad & the Limits of Working Memory (202 pages; ISBN ; OCLC ; publisher; 153 Kli; Main; due 2023-09-07)

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H4.5, E4.0, R4.2JaimeUribarri  ADietary AGEs and Their Role in Health and Disease_ (disease; advanced glycosylation end-products [enzyme-controlled during protein synthesis] vs. advanced glycation end-products [not regulated by enzymes]; arteriosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer, Parkinsonism, retinopathy, kidney failure, arthritis, cross-linking of collagen creating inflexibility & wrinkling; 390 pages; 4 editions; ISBN 1498721516/ 9781498721516; OCLC 1148218713/ 987439835; CRC/ Taylor& Francis/ Informa at RatsMouth; FAU/RatsMouth, Georgia Tech/Atlanta, Emory/Atlanta, UNC/Greensboro, Indiana U SE/New Albany, Indiana U/Bloomington, Indiana U East/Richmond, Christopher Newport U, WPAFB/Dayton-Fairborn-Huber Heights, Ohio State U, Purdue, UIUC, Temple U/Philadelphia, Princeton U; QP 606 .G6 2018; ILL request #217746; due 2024-06-10)

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H4.0, E3.0, R2.5Nicholas J.Wade  ATroublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History (281 pages; 2.041MB; 599.938)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.3James T.WadeEdward R.Amend et al. MisDiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, BiPolar, OCD, Asperger's, Depression, and Other "DisOrders" (255 pages; 618.9289075 Mis; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0Duncan J.Watts   6 Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (368 pages; 511.5; Main; engineers turned evil)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5StevenWeinberg   Dreams of a Final Theory (321 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5H. GilbertWelch, M.D.Lisa M.Schwartz, M.D. & Steven Woloshin, M.D. Over-Diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health (200 pages; ISBN 97887022009; Beacon; 616.0754 Wel; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0SpencerWells   Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project (256 pages; 599.935)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Edward O.Wilson   Consilience
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Edward O.Wilson  TheInsect Societies
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8Edward O.Wilson   On Human Nature
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0Timothy CharlesWinegard  TheMosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator (disease; 485 pages; 595.772 Win; Main+NE+Jax)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.2NaomiWolf, Ph.D.  TheBodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, Covid-19, and the War Against the Human (336 pages; ISBN 9781737478560; OCLC ; All Seasons; libraries; on order 2022-08-03; 362.19624 Wol; Main+Jax; due 2024-02-08)

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H4.0, E3.0, R1.5EricZielinski  TheHealing Power of Essential Oils: Soothe Inflammation, Boost Mood, Prevent AutoImmunity, and Feel Great in Every Way (305 pages; 615.3219; Main+E)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0GeoffreyZubayWilliam W.Parson & Dennis E. Vance Principles of BioChemistry (900 pages)

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