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The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life

Doug Bock Clark · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
The epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brinkExtraordinary praise from a chorus of New York Times bestselling authors: "I absolutely loved this magnificent book." --Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm. "A monumental achievement."...
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Pam Houston · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons,...
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Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects

Chad Orzel · BenBella Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Your alarm goes off, and you head to the kitchen to make yourself some toast and a cup of coffee. Little do you know, as you savor the aroma of the steam rising from your cup, that your ordinary morning routine depends on some of the weirdest phenomena ever discovered. The world of quantum...
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Tamed

DR ALICE ROBERTS · Hutchinson
Format: Hardcover
**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX** **'The best popular book on broad-sweep history since Guns, Germs and Steel.'** Peter Forbes The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors...
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