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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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Unlikely Companions: The Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor
Laurie Hess · Da Capo
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Whether it's an umbrella cockatoo who's not eating, a depressed chinchilla, a pregnant potbellied pig, or a ferret possibly needing surgery, exotic animal vet Laurie Hess is at the front lines with some remarkable pets-and their equally eccentric, dedicated, and sometimes demanding... |
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