Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

We all depend on blood to allow us to live. Nine Pints is more a collection of "short stories" about blood, rather than a continuous narrative. It goes through leeches, plasma donation, AIDS, menstrual periods and other things. There is not much of a flow from topic to topic. 

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Ninety Percent of Everything provides insight into the shipping industry. Today, it is often so cheap to ship things long distances that we think nothing of buying "cheap junk" from halfway around the world. However, things still need to travel across the ocean to get to us. The focus of the book is the ocean travel. The author spends time with a ship crew to experience shipping first hand. Crews typically come from less developed countries, where the wages from life at see can allow their family to live quite well back home. We also get plenty of coverage of the Somali pirates and possible reasons for their behavior. Alas, with the focus on the people at sea, there is not a whole lot of coverage of the whole logistics of the operation.