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The Seine: The River that Made Paris
Elaine Sciolino · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best- selling author Elaine Sciolino.In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich... |
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Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink
Seth M. Siegel · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs... |
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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
Alberto Cairo · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A leading data visualization expert explores the negative -- and positive -- influences that charts have on our perception of truth.We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? Social media has made charts,... |
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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
Azra Raza · Basic Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A world-class oncologist's devastating and deeply personal examination of cancerWe have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs... |
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Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
Kimberly K. Arcand · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
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A lavish coffee-table book featuring spectacular images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-Ray telescope ever built
Take a journey through the cosmos with Light from the Void, a stunning collection of photographs from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's two decades... |
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The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog
Rick McIntyre · Greystone Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing true story of one of the first wolves to roam Yellowstone in more than 60 years.Book One in The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone: A Trilogy[Rick McIntyre] is first and foremost a storyteller whose encyclopedic knowledge of Yellowstone's wolf reintroduction project is unparalleled."... |
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