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Random and untidy. For Personal Science/Quantified Self, follow @quantifiedself.

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Book Cover for: Personal Science, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Personal Science

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
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So great to join the "Personal Science for Parkinson's" symposium this morning in honor of @SaraRiggare's dissertation defense. To celebrate, we released an early version of our book on LeanPub. (Sara is a co-author.) https://twitter.com/quantifiedself/status/1507375006711369728

Paperback, 2017

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder
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https://www.pih.org/donate Thinking about Paul Farmer and how very far out of the mainstream his thinking was when Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains was written 2 decades ago.

Paperback, 2004

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Sidney W. Mintz
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“…sugar and other drug foods, by provisioning, sating—and, indeed, drugging—farm and factory workers, sharply reduced the overall cost of creating and reproducing the metropolitan proletariat.” — Sweetness and Power, Sidney Mintz

Paperback, 1986

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