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Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived

Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist Emma Flannery, delivers an informative-yet-intimate portrait of the megalodon, an extinct shark and the largest predator of all timeWhen Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilized tooth...
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The Lost Flock [US Edition]: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman's Journey to Save Scotland's Original Sheep

Jane Cooper - Chelsea Green Publishing UK
Format: Paperback

"A windswept love letter" -- Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentFrom Viking times to pastoral Highland crofts to odious research experiments, this is the untold, real-life detective story of the remarkable little horned sheep known as the Orkney Boreray and the determined...
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The Slavic Myths

Noah Charney - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world.In the first collection of Slavic myths for an international readership, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak expertly weave together...
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Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

Frank Trentmann - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the war in Ukraine, including revealing new primary source material on Germany's transformation In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. Its citizens stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying...
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Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Mandy Matney - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney.Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South...
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Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class

Michael Gross - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Fifteen families.Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite inAmerica's history. . For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to JosephAlsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed thediminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations...
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Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World

Times UK - HarperCollins UK
Format: Hardcover

Our world as it is today in one beautiful volume. Fully updated mapping with over 200,000 place names. World topics include migration, health and resources. The 16th edition of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World has been fully updated. At 45 cm high, this impressive large-scale...
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The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction

Doron Swade - ‎Oxford University Press

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis lively Very Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of computing, critically examining received perceptions and providing a fresh look at the nature...
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How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology

Philip Ball - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works - the idea of the genome...
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

Benjamin Breen - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley.. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation....
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