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New Titles - Professional & Technical
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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
Weinberg, Gabriel · Portfolio
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. You've got to have models in your head."- Charlie Munger, investor, vice chairman of Berkshire... |
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Reading behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
Grunenwald, Jill · Skyhorse
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching,... |
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Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art
Bomford, David · Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
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A magnificently illustrated overview of Van Gogh's life, legacy, and art, from early drawings through later, iconic paintingsVincent van Gogh: His Life in Art surveys the artist's creative evolution across his short but influential career. The narrative begins with Van Gogh's... |
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One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels
Vaughters, Jonathan · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, throught he eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport's most towering figures.Jonathan Vaughters' story is the story of modern cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown... |
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The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
Bina Venkataraman · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A trailblazing exploration of how we can plan better for the future: our own, our families', and our society's. Instant gratification is the norm today - in our lives, our culture, our economy, and our politics. Many of us have forgotten (if we ever learned) how to make... |
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No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America
Collins, Gail · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist."You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad--for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated... |
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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir
David Fajgenbaum · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure - and became a champion for a new approach to medical research."An extraordinary memoir . . . It belongs with Atul Gawande's writings and When Breath... |
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Timothy C. Winegard · Dutton
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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**The instant New York Times bestseller***An international bestseller*"Hugely impressive, a major work." - NPRA pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito... |
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