Nonfiction
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The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body’s Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You
In Sylvia Tara’s book the The Secret Life of Fat, she discusses what some researchers have discovered about fat, she does an excellent job of describing in layperson terms how fat interacts with the body. By the end of the book, I understood that fat was very complex and it was able to effect our… Continue reading
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The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon
This book is a nice overview of how Brazil is handling the indigenous population of the Amazon. In 1996 in the state of Rondonia, in the Northwest of Brazil sharing a border with Bolivia, the Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department (FUNAI) found a single male living alone in the forest. For ten years they attempted… Continue reading
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
Who knew that there were so many civilizations in the southern hemisphere, The Lost City of the Monkey God takes us deep into the Mosquitia region of the Gracias a Dios Department in eastern Honduras, where the legendary “White City” supposedly existed. The first third of the book tells how documentary filmmakers Steve Elkins and… Continue reading
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