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Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)

New Books in the History of Science

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Pump, What Kind of Discoveries Along Your Journey to Writing Your Book?

When i was working on a book about cannibalism, i wondered why we have a ne jurk reaction to that word. And when i did that research, i was going to name the chapter, blame it on the ancient creeks. But when i went to look at why we had the in the west, at least, we have these feelings about that the heart is tied to emotionsanand memory and an ite and and the soul, i was good. I could ha named that chapter, blameIt on the ancient egyptians. They thought very little about about the brain. If they were mummifying, you, they would pull the brain out of your head with

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