Microcosm

Microcosm

By
Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer
2008 • 243 pages

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33 books

Was Reading Will Come Back

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Jeff
Team of Rivals
Choice
Man's Search for Meaning
Nudge: The Final Edition
The Hearts of Men
The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
Evolution’s Rainbow

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78 books

Old School Fun

Hypothalamusic
Keiko C
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder
Sybil
Phantoms in the Brain
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
An American Plague
The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Health Care Organizations

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101 books

Mine

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Clair High
Ancestor
Seed to Harvest
2001: A Space Odyssey
In search of Schrödinger's cat
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Mr. Pine's purple house

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201 books

History Of Medicine

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Strange Medicine
The Hot Zone
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

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272 books

Science And Engineering

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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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9 books

Microbiology

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Parasite rex inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures
This Is Your Brain on Parasites
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Never Home Alone
Microcosm
Good germs, bad germs : health and survival in a bacterial world
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

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129 books

Biology

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Bitch
The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses
Gory Details
Philosophy of Biology
The Book of Genes and Genomes

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119 books

Favorites

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The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Hobbit
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
The Fountainhead

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71 books

Non Fiction

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
Hitch 22: A Memoir
The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Your Inner Fish