Depression & Mood Disorders
The Noonday Demon
by Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon examines depression as an illness, a lived ordeal, a cultural category, and a public problem.
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- Hardcover First edition; hardcover ISBN-13: 9780684854663
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Subjects: Science & Medicine (2), Depression & Mood Disorders, Personal & Family Memoir, History of Technology, Astrophysics, Biodiversity
Authors: Andrew Solomon, Jeannette Walls, Chris Miller, Katie Mack, David Quammen, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Depression & Mood Disorders
by Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon examines depression as an illness, a lived ordeal, a cultural category, and a public problem.
Personal & Family Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls recounts a childhood shaped by poverty, frequent moves, parental neglect, and fierce family loyalty.
History of Technology
by Chris Miller
Chip War is a global history of the semiconductor and an argument about technological power.
Astrophysics
by Katie Mack
In The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack examines five scientifically discussed ways the universe might meet its ultimate fate: the Big Crunch, heat death, the Big…
Biodiversity
by David Quammen
David Quammen uses islands—both literal and ecological—to explain how species originate, spread, persist, and disappear.
Science & Medicine
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Gene is a large-scale history of heredity as both a scientific problem and a consequential human idea.
Science & Medicine
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee approaches cancer as though it were the subject of a biography: an entity with ancient appearances, changing identities, influential interpreters, periods of apparent defeat, and repeated transformations.