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Viruses, the Brain, and Human Civilization
What is a virus and how could it alter our socio-political reality by enslaving the human brain.
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Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
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The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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Beat (Beat, #1)
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A Planet of Viruses
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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Bill Wasik (Goodreads Author)
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
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Agnes at the End of the World
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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The Double Helix
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The Origins of AIDS
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The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
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No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die
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Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Mark Pendergrast (Goodreads Author)
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Spanish Influenza: The Story of the Epidemic That Swept America From the Newspaper Reports of 1918
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Ken Rossignol (Goodreads Author)
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Plague: A Very Short Introduction
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Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
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Virus Hunt: The Search for the Origin of HIV
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
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The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues
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Frank Ryan (Goodreads Author)
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
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The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
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Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
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Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How it Changed the World
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3.97 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
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The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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Sam Kean (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 13,546 ratings
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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Tales of Life and Death on the Neurology Ward
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Allan H. Ropper (Goodreads Author)
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
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3.99 avg rating — 4,569 ratings
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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
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Braindance: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods
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Prehistory: The making of the human mind
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
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Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
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