📚 Respiration

Books with respiration on their catalogue record, first published between 1670 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject respiration in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,740 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Breath	James Nestor	2020	12
	Diversity of Bacterial Respiratory Systems	Christopher J. Kowles	2017	11
	Caesar's Last Breath	Sam Kean	2017	10
	How to calm down	Fred L. Miller	2003	9
	Respiratory physiology--the essentials	West, John B.	1974	8
	The composition of expired air and its effects upon animal life	John S. Billings	1895	7
	My breathing system	Jørgen Peter Müller	1914	7
	Respiratory physiology	N. Balfour Slonim	1967	7
	Nature's Finer Forces	Rama Prasad	1969	7
	Respiration in plants	Walter Stiles	1932	6
	Clinical application of blood gases	Barry A. Shapiro	1973	6
	De respirationis usu primario, diatriba	Malachi Thruston	1670	5
	Experiments on the production of animal heat by respiration	E. Hale	1813	5
	The uses and abuses of air	John H. Griscom	1848	5
	Respiration	J. S. Haldane	1922	5
	Physiology of respiration	Julius H. Comroe	1965	5
	The law of the rhythmic breath	Ella Adelia Fletcher	1965	5
	The Respiratory System (Body Systems)	Susan Heinrichs Gray	2003	5
	Lung mechanics	Jason H. T. Bates	2009	5
	Mechanics of Breathing	Andrea Aliverti	2013	5
	On respiration in singing	Joseph Joal	1895	4
	Science of Breath	William Walker Atkinson	1905	4
	Tissue respiration in invertebrates	Dorothy E. Bliss	1963	4
	Science of breath	Rama Swami	1979	4
	Breathing	Jen Green	2003	4
	Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria	Davide Zannoni	2004	4
	Respiration and Photosynthesis	Donna Latham	2008	4
	Breath	Gillian Houghton	2009	4
	Voice disorders	Carole T. Ferrand	2012	4
	Ueber die Athmungsgrösse des Menschen	Friedrich Arnold	1855	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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