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Medicine & Medical History
Anatomy, surgery and the long argument over what ails us.
Neuroscience & Neurology
The brain, written about by people using one.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Freud, his critics, and the rats in Norman Maier's lab.
Science & Natural History
Foundational texts, field guides and the occasional wrong theory.
Philosophy & Intellectual History
How people have thought about thinking.
Literature & First Editions
Novels, poetry and books caught at their first printing.
Art & Illustrated Books
Plates, catalogues and covers worth judging a book by.
History & Cultural Studies
Wars, customs, institutions and their paperwork.
Unusual & Curious Books
The ones that make us stop shelving and start reading.
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