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Non-Authors who came out with brilliant works of art

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Some of the most gruesome, bone-chilling, and eye-opening books that we read are based on true events. As fun as fiction is to read, it can't beat the experience of reading a beautifully written historical, war-time, or even academic book. I remember watching Chernobyl – an HBO TV series without any knowledge of nuclear physics or chemistry, but the way it was so well-documented and dramatized that I, basically an illiterate regarding nuclear powerplants, was able to understand every single aspect of the mini-series. Similarly, throughout history, we see non-authors create literary masterpieces that leave the world awestruck. The books that leave their marks in history are the ones that are relatable and understandable to a large audience. Here, we present you with a few remarkable books penned down by non-authors. This handpicked list includes everything from gripping combat stories to important feminist literature, academic books, miraculous survival stories, and gourmet adventures.

 

  1. MICHELLE ALEXANDER, THE NEW JIM CROW

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness contends that, although conforming to the ideal of colorblindness, the US criminal justice system is being employed as a contemporaneous system of racial domination. According to the author, despite Barack Obama's election, the United States has not abolished racial caste; rather, it has merely reconfigured it by segmenting Black men through the Drug war and the annihilation of minority neighborhoods. She claims that mass incarceration of the poor and colored people has revealed racial and class bias on the part of American politicians and Black leaders. Ex-convicts will face prejudice (racism that is condoned and justified by society), she learns from her work with the ACLU, which includes limitations on voting rights, juries, food assistance, subsidized housing, college loans, and job possibilities. Her book, which reveals this subtler but still heinous new kind of societal control, is a crucial, remarkable effort that does more than reveal our infrastructure's duplicity; it also shows us a clear path to change it.

 

  1. REBECCA SKLOOT, THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

This is a story about Henrietta Lacks' or HeLa. Her cells were removed without her consent and became one of the essential tools in medicine. HeLa was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who toiled the same land as her oppressed forefathers. Even though she has been deceased for more than sixty years, the first “immortal” human cells generated in culture are still living today. HeLa cells have been utilized to generate vaccines and therapies, as well as pharmacological treatments, gene mapping, and a variety of other scientific endeavors. They were even transported into orbit so scientists could investigate how human cells react to zero gravity.

  1. DINKER BELLE RAI, MECHANICAL FUNCTION OF THE ATRIAL DIASTOLE

Mechanical Function of the Atrial Diastole is a detailed, well-written, and well-depicted book that delves into the history and development of circulation and connects them to recent discoveries on blood motion in the venous system. This book analyses the mechanical functions of the atrial chambers and performs the function of the human heart, supporting the work of Sir William Harvey, who established the mechanical function of the ventricles. The motion of blood in the venous system, the dynamic function of the atrial diastole,  the motion of venous valves in humans, pulsatile venous low, and the concept and theory of circulation are among the author's original findings. Each segment starts with a set of learning goals. The importance of the information, themes, and concepts discussed has been highlighted. The author created a blueprint in which he incorporated his own ideas and theories on circulation. The author has undertaken a vast and challenging task in producing this book and delivering his findings. His theory is compelling, and it adds to what we already know about venous circulation, venous valve movement, and atrial relaxation. This book gives a complete text on innovative ideas and fundamental comprehension of venous circulation physiology, which will aid in the diagnosis and treatment of venous illnesses.

 

  1. ANDREA WULF, THE INVENTION OF NATURE

Andrea Wulf wrote one of the remarkable biographies about the neutralist Alexander von Humboldt. However, her book is soo much more than just a life story of Alexander von Humboldt. German biologist Alexander von Humboldt is one of the most renowned men of his time, with hundreds of townships, rivers, current flow, glaciers, and other natural wonders named after him. Aside from documenting an astonishingly fecund period in the history of European ideas (Von Humboldt was good friends with his Weimar neighbor, Goethe), Wulf reveals in Humboldt a true forefather of modern ecology, a jack-of-all-trades scientist more concerned with our place on a broader spectrum than with the decline of the natural environment into its constitutive specimens.

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