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1) The humans
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English
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The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable novel about alien abduction, mathematics and that most interesting subject of all: ourselves. Combine Douglas Adams' irreverent take on life, the universe and everything with a genuinely moving love story, and you have some idea of the humour, originality and poignancy of Matt Haig's latest novel. Our hero, Professor Andrew Martin, is dead before the book even begins. As it turns out, though, he wasn't...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a world run by machines, humans are an endangered species. The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left...
4) Humans
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Brandon Stanton's new book, Humans'his most moving and compelling book to date'shows us the world. Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world. Traveling to more than forty countries,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from...
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English
Description
'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise -- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, mindfulness mentor, parenting coach, and mother of two Hunter Clarke-Fields offers parents practical and breakthrough strategies for conflict resolution and positive communication. Parents learn to break free from ingrained ""reactive parenting"" habits in order to forge better relationships with their children--relationships built on respect and cooperation....
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
"Based on the blog with more than a million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs capturing the spirit of a city. In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in an attempt to capture New Yorkers and their...
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English
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A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don't expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It's no longer an animal. It's a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, this book is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. It's...
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English
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No matter what anyone tells you, I’m real." That’s what the note says that Max finds under his keyboard. He knows that his best friend, Josie, wrote it. He'd know her handwriting anywhere. But why she wrote it—and what it means—remains a mystery. Ever since they met in kindergarten, Max and Josie have been inseparable. Until the summer after fifth grade, when Josie disappears, leaving only a note, and whispering something about "whatnot rules."...
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Series
Dragon's guide volume 01
Language
English
Description
Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.
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Series
Dungeon Academy volume 01
Language
English
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"When Zellidora 'Zelli' Stormclash seeks answers to her true lineage, she embarks on a dangerous adventure"--
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting."
—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance
A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you'll find powerful and practical strategies to break free from "reactive parenting" habits and raise kind, cooperative, and confident kids.
Whether you're running late for school, trying to get your child
...15) Humans
Publisher
Kudos Film & Television Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the near future, humanoid servants called Synthetics have been created to help busy families simplify their lives. When Joe Hawkins buys synth Anita, he hopes it will relieve the pressure on his wife, Laura.
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Series
Publisher
Image Comics
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English
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THE HUMANS ARE BACK! The second HUMANS collection follows the gang as they rampage thru drug runs with road pirates, strip club freak outs and beatdowns, passionate sex in cheap motel rooms, and multiple bloody barroom massacres! All of which snowballs towards a brutal ending of bloody vengeance and death! It's the feel good hit of the year! Collects THE HUMANS #5-10.. Author: Keenan Marshall Keller. Illustrator: Tom Neely . 2016 Keenan Marshall...
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Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Language
English
Description
The HUMANS Volume 1: HUMANS FOR LIFE collects the highly acclaimed first 4 issues of IMAGE Comics runaway hit series, as well as the highly collectible, long-out-of-print, self published #0 issue. Within this volume, you'll meet The HUMANS as they mourn the loss of a fallen brother only to have Johnny, a long-thought-dead member, return to the fold!! Johnny struggles to find himself now that he is back home as he fights the flashbacks from the jungles...
18) The humans
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Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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"A kind, warm, beautifully observed and deeply moving new play, a celebration of working-class familial imperfection and affection and a game-changing work for this gifted young playwright."--Chicago Tribune "Karam is in rare form here, showing a remarkable ear for the way families converse ... For all the characters' woes, this is a warm, funny, sharply observed portrait of their abiding connections with one another."-Time Out Chicago Breaking with...
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible.Imagine for a moment what the world might look like if we as people of faith, morality, and conscience actually aspired to this mantra.What if we were fully burdened to create a world that was more loving and equitable than when we arrived?What if we invited one another to share in wide-open, fearless, spiritual communities truly marked by compassion and interdependence?What if we daily challenged ourselves to live a faith...
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English
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"In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?"--Dust jacket flap.