Non-Fiction Worth Reading

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Obviously different people have different ideas of what makes a book worth reading. But for you personally, was it worth the time it took to read?
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La vida inmortal de Henrietta Lacks
por Rebecca Skloot
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4.2
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Sharkie35 : The way they used her cells was nothing unique, or based on her race. The author glosses over these facts so they could write a book proclaiming the medical profession as racist.
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Una breve historia de casi todo
por Bill Bryson
23,227 miembros
398 reseñas
4.2
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lorax: An error-ridden mess complete with random gratuitous homophobia. Read it for the biographies, but don't believe the science if you didn't already know it (and maybe not even then, if you believe that glass flows.)
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
por Andrea Wulf
2,358 miembros
83 reseñas
4.1
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
por Merlin Sheldrake
1,985 miembros
47 reseñas
4.2
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
por Robin Wall Kimmerer
4,088 miembros
117 reseñas
½ 4.4
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