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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky · Doubleday
Pages: 400
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
David Welky · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 512
Format: Print book |
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A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places.In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious... |
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A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
Walter Alvarez · W W Norton
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Famed geologist Walter Alvarez expands our view of human history by revealing the cosmic, geologic, and evolutionary forces that have shaped us. Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians.... |
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Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
Charles P Wohlforth · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer: a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable.We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly... |
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Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
Lydia V Pyne · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestorsOver the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most... |
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The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything
Adrian Bejan · St. Martins Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant... |
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Jill Jonnes · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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A celebration of urban trees and the Americans - presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds - whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation's cities, from Jefferson's day to the present Nature's largest... |
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Horse Owners' Essential Tips: Grooming, Care, Tack, Facilities, Riding, Pasture
Philippe Meyrier · Firefly Books
Pages: 208
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Horse Owners' Essential Tips is chock full of the best proven advice on horse care. Shared among owners and riders for years, these tips and tricks revolve around daily maintenance and the most common problems that arise when caring for a horse. The book packs them all together in an easy... |
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