Gloria's Favorite Books
List of books I love
and other note-taking things
People frequently ask me for book recommendations and I always promise to publish a list. So, while rearranging my books, I decided it was a good time to finally do so!
These books are about medicine, translation, interpreting, language, and fun and interesting stuff related to all of the above. Some of these I have read and others are in my pending list. This is not a definite list as I will continue populating it. Also, it does not mean that you must buy all these books, but that I think they are useful and reliable.
And don’t forget that pre-owned books are amazing, too! I have several books I have purchased second hand and they are way cheaper than the latest edition. I do it for two good reasons: I am saving a book from a landfill and because I don’t think the human body changed from one edition to the next? Tee hee!
Oh, I have also added a list of useful stuff for note-taking. It ranges from note pads to pens and tablets.
Science and languages are always changing, so please feel free to reach out to me at info@blueurpi.com if you find a broken link or have a resource that you would like added to the list.
Happy search!
Gloria
ps. For most books, I included a link to Amazon. There, you can find a book review (to learn more about it) and ISBN (so you can buy a used edition and save one book from a landfill).
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Books - Languages
📘 Lengua española
- Ortografía de la lengua española. by RAE.
https://amzn.to/3T2SftH - Ortografía y ortotipografía del español actual. OOTEA 3
by José Martínes de Sousa
https://amzn.to/4c19vIE - Libro de estilo de la lengua española
by RAE and ASALE.
https://amzn.to/3P21CIU - Normativa lingüística española y corrección de textos
de Alicia María Zorrilla
Libros del Zorzal
[No hay libros disponibles, así que me compré la versión electrónica para iBooks]
📗 Español
- El Español de los Estados Unidos por Anna María Escobar y Kim Potowski.
https://amzn.to/3U8AdXw - Contactos y contextos lingüísticos: el español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas por Manel Lacorte Peña, Luis A. Ortiz López.
https://amzn.to/3WgLU1a - Lo uno y lo diverso: La riqueza del idioma español por Instituto Cervantes.
https://amzn.to/4b7Cbyg - 1001 curiosidades, palabras y expresiones de la lengua española por Fundeu
https://amzn.to/3InAQqK
📕 English
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: by Lynne Truss.
https://amzn.to/3uYMFk3 - The Glamour of Grammar by Roy Peter Clark.
https://amzn.to/43N9V1n - Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris.
https://amzn.to/3TIIfpJ
📕 Language and Linguistics
- An illustrated book of Loaded Language:Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments) by Ali Almossawi (Author), Alejandro Giraldo (Illustrator).
https://amzn.to/4aPp8lm - The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure
https://amzn.to/3TNCqHw - Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff
https://amzn.to/4aiDIRX - The Edge of Meaning by James Boyd White.
https://amzn.to/3TLU5Q1 - The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker.
https://amzn.to/3Jae6L2
🤬 Cussing
- The Anatomy of Dirty Words by Edward Sagarin.
https://amzn.to/3xPBuLz - For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache.
https://amzn.to/3UmxB8K - Swearing Is Good for You by Emma Byrne.
https://amzn.to/3QhE4k3 - Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language (Illustrated Edition) by Emma Byrne.
https://amzn.to/3W9II7p - Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr.
https://amzn.to/4aN0YaZ - Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb.
https://amzn.to/49X2eqO - On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing by Katherine Dunn.
https://amzn.to/4bdcVqv - Bad Language: Are Some Words Better Than Others? by Edwin Battistella.
https://amzn.to/4b5hzXe - Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets by Timothy Jay.
https://amzn.to/4dqZrcH - What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves by Benjamin K. Bergen.
https://amzn.to/3w7Gbjl - Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English by Geoffrey Hughes.
https://amzn.to/4deccXD - Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter.
https://amzn.to/3Uv6edN - Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James.
https://amzn.to/3JBg3Rg - On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt.
https://amzn.to/3Ud6UDa - Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs, and Curses from Around the World by Dr. Robert Vanderplank.
https://amzn.to/3w7Sooh - Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun by Liza Bakewell.
https://amzn.to/4dat5md
- Estructura del insulto: por Martín Alomo
https://amzn.to/4bblXUU - El chingonario: por María del Pilar Montes de Oca Sicilia.
https://amzn.to/49QS9f9
El Chingonario
Books - General Medical
👩🏻💻 Medical Terminology
- ❤️ The Language of Medicine 11th Edition
by Davi-Ellen Chabner BA MAT
https://amzn.to/3U1D1Hc - ❤️ Professional English in Use Medicine: Book with answers
by Eric H. Glendinning (EN-UK)
https://amzn.to/3xnYNfo - Medical Terminology: A Short Course 9th Edition
by Davi-Ellen Chabner
https://amzn.to/3VMpswC - The Merck Manual of Patient Symptoms: A Concise, Practical Guide to Etiology, Evaluation, and Treatment
by Robert S. Porter
https://amzn.to/43KOJZQ - Medical Terminology For Dummies (3rd Ed.)
by Henderson.
https://amzn.to/3UdqAaa - Inglés Médico / Medical English (Spanish Edition)
by Ribes, Ramon, Ros, Pablo R. (2010)
https://amzn.to/49nK1Co - Spanish and the Medical Interview: A Textbook for Clinically Relevant Medical Spanish 2nd Edition
by Pilar Ortega MD
https://amzn.to/3vAxH49 - Lengua Médica 2da Edición
by Óscar G. Pamo Reyna
ISBN 9786124242267
🪦 Physical Exam
- Pocket Companion for Physical Examination & Health Assessment (9th Ed)
by Carolyn Jarvis, PhD APN CNP.
https://amzn.to/49QGvkc
👁️🗨️ Doctor's Points of View
- ❤️ An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks.
https://amzn.to/43N4cbN - Just here, trying to save a few lives Tales of life and death from the ER by Pamela Grim, MD.
https://amzn.to/4b9gDRE - Danger to Self On the frontlines with an ER psychiatrist by Paul R. Linde, MD.
https://amzn.to/3U51El2 - This is going to hurt Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor by Adam Kay.
https://amzn.to/4b9gDRE - ❤️ Nosotras, enfermeras: Historias de unos días que nos cambiaron para siempre by Enfermera Saturada (Hector Castineira) España. https://amzn.to/3T9w0SL
- Loquerías, manicomios y hospirales psiquiátricos de Lima por Santiago Stucchi Portocarrero.
https://amzn.to/3Uvmdbz
👤 Anatomy
- Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy (8th Ed) by Frank Netter. https://amzn.to/3UrOXlD
- Anatomy and Physiology in Healthcare (1st Ed) by Paul Marshall. https://amzn.to/4d8tbe7
- 30-Second Anatomy Edited by Gabrielle M. Finn https://amzn.to/3W9MD3V
- Anatomy and Physiology for Dummies https://amzn.to/4aP1FAz
- Anatomy & Physiology: A Complete Introduction https://amzn.to/4a6GitH
- Memmler's The Human Body in Health and Disease https://amzn.to/3JtJsg9
- Kay's Anatomy by Adam Kay. Fun facts about the human body! It is for kids, but has great terminology. https://amzn.to/4d5bNad
- Gray. Anatomía básica (3.ª Ed) https://amzn.to/3xMCkIV
👁️🗨️ Disease's Points of View
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
https://amzn.to/3VOQseL - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
https://amzn.to/3y1WXko - A Mind of its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine. https://amzn.to/3vFeazu
- Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran. https://amzn.to/3TJxRye
- An Elegant Defense: Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To. By Dean Burnett https://amzn.to/3UwR3AB
- Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives. By Matt Richtel https://amzn.to/3UfSfXL
- Loquerías, manicomios y hospirales psiquiátricos de Lima por Santiago Stucchi Portocarrero.
https://amzn.to/3Uvmdbz
Books - Medical
📗 Psych
- ❤️ An Emotional Dictionary: Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder by Susie Dent.
https://amzn.to/4aolG0W - Las cuatro emociones básicas por Marcelo Antoni, Jorge Zentner
https://amzn.to/49TDqAf
📗 Pain
- Dolor: Asistencia Clínica. Manejo en el ámbito médico-psicológico por Vicente Valentín Maganto, José Carlos Mingote Adán, Manuel López Espino.
https://amzn.to/4d6FW97 - Las cuatro emociones básicas por Marcelo Antoni, Jorge Zentner
https://amzn.to/49TDqAf
🧬 Genetics
- Genetics for Dummies (4th Ed.) https://amzn.to/3JALmM4
- Genetics 101: From Chromosomes and the Double Helix to Cloning and DNA Tests, Everything You Need to Know about Genes https://amzn.to/3WfqsJY
- The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine T. Bettinger. https://amzn.to/3w6jP1O
🏥 Healthcare Systems
- Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach (8th Ed) Leiyu Shi, Douglas A. Singh https://amzn.to/4dpphxJ
- ❤️ This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor by Adam Kay. OB/Gyn resident in the UK . https://amzn.to/434HwDL
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD. https://amzn.to/4bXZ606
- Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER by Pamela Grim . Emergency Room Doctor. https://amzn.to/4aECpwG
🪦 Death & Grief
- When Someone Dies: The Practical Guide to the Logistics of Death
by Scott Taylor Smith.
https://amzn.to/3UeaFcZ
🚬 Drugs
- The Little Book of Marijuana
Mind-blowing Facts, History, Trivia and Recipes by Spruce.
https://amzn.to/4b7sBvo
Books: Translation & Interpreting
👩🏻💻Translation
- Translation: An advanced resource book (2nd Ed.) for students by Basil Hatim, Jeremy Munday.
https://amzn.to/3Qh142q - In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation (3rd Ed.) Mona Baker.
https://amzn.to/49NG1LL
- Introduction to Spanish Translation (2nd Ed.) by Jack Child.
https://amzn.to/4bcWaLN - Thinking Spanish Translation (Thinking Translation) (2nd Ed.) by Louise M. Haywood, Michael Thompson Sándor Hervey.
https://amzn.to/3Qh142q - Introducción a la traducción: inglés < > español por Antonio F. Jiménez Jiménez.
https://amzn.to/44baKkZ - Manual de traducción Inglés-Castellano por Juan Gabriel López Guix.
https://amzn.to/49MZRHf - La traducción. El modelo interpretativo por Marianne Lederer. Traducido por Beatriz Rodriguez.
https://amzn.to/4dbe7fG - Taller de traducción: Guía práctica para la traducción de libros del inglés al español. Por Maite Fernández Estañán.
https://amzn.to/3WcN3Xi - La traducción de la A a la Z por Vicente Fernández González.
https://amzn.to/3QgMVlX
👩🏻💻Traductology
- Introducción a la traductología: Teorías y aplicaciones (4th Ed) por Jeremy Munday.
https://amzn.to/3QhQF6u - Translating as a Purposeful Activity (Translation Theories Explored) (2nd Ed.) by Christiane Nord.
https://amzn.to/4b7Fl56 - ❤️Traducción y Traductología: Introducción a la traductología por Amparo Hurtado Albir.
https://amzn.to/3UeLkhN
💬 Interpreting
- Medical Interpreting and Cross-cultural Communication by Claudia V. Angeleli.
https://amzn.to/3Qc0bbF
👩🏻💻 About Translators and Interpreters
- Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman.
https://amzn.to/44gZFin - ❤️ Catching Fire: A Translation Diary (Untranslated Series) by Daniel Hahn.
https://amzn.to/3J7gPF6 - Dancing On Ropes Translators and the Balance of History by Anna Aslayan.
https://amzn.to/3JxEejl - A Little Book of Language by David Crystal.
https://amzn.to/49Wt1n3 - Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World by Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzschel.
https://amzn.to/3Uw6WYh - Malinche by Laura Esquivel. Translated by Ernesto Mestre-Reed.
https://amzn.to/4deHs8X
👅Linguistics
- Lingüistística aplicada a la traducción por Ángel López García, Montserrat Veyrat Rigat.
https://amzn.to/3UyRGcU - Translating as a Purposeful Activity (Translation Theories Explored) by Christiane Nord.
https://amzn.to/4dbNSG0 - ❤️Traducción y Traductología: Introducción a la traductología por Amparo Hurtado Albir.
https://amzn.to/3UeLkhN
Books: Culture
📘 Culture (Theory)
- ❤️ Communication Between Cultures (9th Ed) by Larry Samovar et al.
https://amzn.to/4ahRGUr - Medical Humanities, Cultural Humility, and Social Justice by Dalia Magaña, Christina Lux, and Ignacio López-Calvo.
https://amzn.to/3VNEemC - ❤️ Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation by Michael Agar.
https://amzn.to/3PQ9AFk - Culture - The Anthropologist's Account (99) by Adam Kuper.
https://amzn.to/3VQnNWV - Culture by Terry Eagleton.
https://amzn.to/43MSduN
Culture
📘 Translation & Culture
- The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture by Sue-Ann Harding, Ovidi Carbonell Cortés.
https://amzn.to/3UdqJdI - Medical Humanities, Cultural Humility, and Social Justice by Dalia Magaña, Christina Lux, and Ignacio López-Calvo.
https://amzn.to/3VNEemC - ❤️ Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation by Michael Agar.
https://amzn.to/3PQ9AFk - Culture - The Anthropologist's Account (99) by Adam Kuper.
https://amzn.to/3VQnNWV - Culture by Terry Eagleton.
https://amzn.to/43MSduN
Culture
🍵 Folk Medicine
- Folk Medicine: A New England Almanac of Natural Health Care From a Noted Vermont Country Doctor
by D.C. Jarvis, MD.
https://amzn.to/3U78B54
📘 Latino/Hispanic
- ❤️ Ask, Listen, Act: A New Model for Philanthropy
by Luz Vega-Marquis.
https://amzn.to/4cKJXQ2
🤺 Conflic Resolution
- Don't Mess with My Professionalism: How to Resolve Conflict Across Cultures : by Vanessa Barros, PhD. How to deal with misunderstandings in a culturally diverse workplace. https://amzn.to/43JipGW
🌏 Asian and Pacific Islander
- Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang. https://amzn.to/3VRRV3Q
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down : https://amzn.to/3uULF0l by Anne Fadiman.
🩺 Living with a condition
- Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox (Parkinson Disease)
https://amzn.to/3T30ZjD - Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison. (Asperger's syndrome)
https://amzn.to/3wAWvZN - The Story of My Life by Hellen Keller.
https://amzn.to/49DWiUz - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
https://amzn.to/3TsCeyN - Still me by Christopher Reeve https://amzn.to/3Tp8nqG
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong.
https://amzn.to/3V4S0AY
👎🏽 Race and Prejudice
- ❤️ White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo. https://amzn.to/4cG6Y6R
- ❤️ Stereotypes and Prejudice (Key Readings in Social Psychology) by Charles Stangor https://amzn.to/3VKs0LG
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. https://amzn.to/3TJcvRq
📗 Indigenous People
- I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu and Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. https://amzn.to/4cdchL1
- Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog. https://amzn.to/4ahUnFx
- Embracing Indigenous Knowledge in Science and Medical Teaching (Cultural Studies of Science Education, 10) by Mariana G. Hewson.
https://amzn.to/3vOqXQ5 - ❤️ Global Indigenous Health: Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future by Robert Henry, Amanda LaVallee.
https://amzn.to/4aDqVJI - Malinche by Laura Esquivel. Translated by Ernesto Mestre-Reed.
https://amzn.to/3vG3kt4 - Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota by Wallace Black Elk.
https://amzn.to/3J5uYmg
LGBTQIA+, Gender, and etc.
📘 EN
- Seeing Gender: by Iris Gottlieb https://amzn.to/3WcjXqY
- This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson. https://amzn.to/4b9P0Is
- A Queer History of The United States for Young People by Michael Bronski. https://amzn.to/4b5twML
- x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng. https://amzn.to/4ddo0t8
- Fast Facts about LGBTQ+ Care for Nurses: How to Deliver Culturally Competent and Inclusive Care by Tyler Traister. https://amzn.to/44eRSl1
- Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques https://amzn.to/44aKmrn
- The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us by James W. Pennebaker https://amzn.to/3JtPQnA
- The Queens' English: What Our Words Say About Us by James W. Pennebaker https://amzn.to/3xJeHB2
💻 ES
- Psicología del Genero por Vicki S. Helgeson https://amzn.to/3Jw4QBi
- Deshacer el género por Judith Butler. https://amzn.to/3UaIdap
- Mujeres trans en el Perú: Historias de vida e identidad by Ximena Salazar Lostanau https://amzn.to/3UbY8FE
- Libertad y Prejuicio: Reflexiones para la defensa de los derechos LGBTIQ+ editado por Yesenia Alvarez y Dieto Ato https://amzn.to/3QcFgVS
- Me vestí de reina: Diez historias de vida drag en el Perú. Tienda Teatral (México)
- Manifiesto contrasexual de Paul B. Preciado https://amzn.to/4b9cIo1
- Notas maricas por Facu Soto. Librería Sudestada
- Sexualidades: Tensiones entre la psiquiatría y los colectivos militantes (Psicología) by Silvia Di Segni https://amzn.to/3QhpmJJ
- Propuesta de acuerdo sobre el lenguaje inclusivo por Álex Grijelmo. https://amzn.to/3Wk7t0u
- La rebelión del género por Olga Montero Rose. https://amzn.to/49PWSNZ
- Furia travesti Diccionario de la T a la T por Marlene Wayar. https://amzn.to/3xMHg0p
- La rebelión de las disidencias por La Montaña: Ediciones Socialistas. https://amzn.to/49LwFjT
Note-Taking
📘 Analog
Paper
- Note pad (lined): 8.5 inch x 11.75 inch, White. These are my favorite because this size fits anywhere! https://amzn.to/3T2C1Rl
- Top spiral stenopad Note pad (lined): 6x9 inches, white paper. White Paper. I feel they are too big, but some colleagues love then. https://amzn.to/3Patyui Pens
💻 Digital
- ❤️ iPad Mini (6th gen): Love it because it fits in my lab coat pocket at work, it is very light, the battery lasts a long time, and it saves trees! https://amzn.to/4a2h67L
- ❤️ Apple Pencil (2nd Generation): Smooth and never runs out of ink. The 1st generation is also good. I like this one because it attaches magnetically to the iPad, so I don't lose it as often as I did. https://amzn.to/48DAfMg
- ❤️ Screen protector: I have a Paperlike 2.0 for iPad Mini 8.3" and makes it feel like I am writing on real paper. Whatever brand and model you choose, make sure it matches your iPad. Having a screen protector has saved me of replacing my screen many times. https://amzn.to/3VpzeEP
- Apple Smart Folio for iPad Mini (6th Gen): It is not necessary to purchase exactly this one, just make sure it fits your iPad so you can protect your investment. https://amzn.to/3V7aZe3
Books - Pop Culture
🌍 Testimonial African-American
- ❤️ The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish. https://amzn.to/4aDnToO
- You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson. https://amzn.to/3xnHQ4C
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah. https://amzn.to/3TIJuVV
🌏 Testimonial Asian
- ❤️ How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents by Jimmy O. Yang.
https://amzn.to/4awKfs6 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling https://amzn.to/3J3YQzl