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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
John Powell · Little Pages: 320 Format: Print book |
A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make... |
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover |
Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise... |
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.
Charles Klosterman · Blue Rider Press Pages: 272 Format: Print book |
"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about... |
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The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World
Steve Hely · Dutton Pages: 336 Format: Print book |
Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their... |
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The Big Book of Nature Activities: A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning
Jacob Rodenburg · New Society Pages: 384 Format: Print book |
The average child can identify over one thousand corporate logos, but only ten native plants or animals - a telling indictment of our modern disconnection from nature. Soaring levels of obesity, high rates of ADHD, feelings of stress and social awkwardness, and "Nature Deficit Disorder"... |
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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
Virginia Heffernan · Simon & Schuster Pages: 272 Format: Print book |
Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan (called one of the "best living writers of English prose") reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet.Since its inception, the Internet has morphed from merely an extension... |
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Death by Video Game: Danger, Pleasure, and Obsession on the Virtual Frontline
Simon Parkin · Melville House Pages: 272 Format: Print book |
"The finest book on video games yet. Simon Parkin thinks like a critic, conjures like a novelist, and writes like an artist at the height of his powers - which, in fact, he is." - Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games MatterOn January 31, 2012, in an internet cafe... |
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