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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson · Doubleday
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.

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Clearing the Air: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019

Tim Smedley · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution."--Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of CaliforniaThe story of what's happened to the air we breathe, the impact it has had on our health and what we can do to fight back.Clearing the Air tells the full story...
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The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

Jeremy Rifkin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An urgent plan to confront climate change, transform the American economy, and create a green post-fossil fuel culture.

A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around...

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Lifespan: The Revolutionary Science of Why We Age?and Why We Don't Have To

David A. Sinclair PhD · Atria Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time's most influential people.

It's a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we've been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose...
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Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity.

With Wildhood, Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and award-winning science writer Kathryn Bowers...
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut's...

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