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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

Hope Jahren · Vintage
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." - Nature

"A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brilliantly sardonic and conversational style."...
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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Lulu Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and - possibly - even murder.

David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural...
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Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear

Eva Holland · EXPERIMENT
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Frozen in terror during a mountain descent, award-winning journalist Eva Holland reaches her breaking point. Since childhood, she’s been gripped by two debilitating phobias: fear of losing her mother, and fear of heights. The worst has already happened: Eva’s mother died suddenly and unexpectedly...
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How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

Adam Rutherford · EXPERIMENT
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The science of race is constantly changing, and you need to change with it if you want to think and talk about race in an enlightened, sensitive, scientifically supported way. Author Adam Rutherford takes us on a tour of the common misconceptions and malicious falsehoods we unwittingly...
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Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change Hit the West

Daniel Mathews · COUNTERPOINT PR
Format: Hardcove

A troubling story of the devastating ripple effects of climate change told through forest ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, fire bosses, and activists

Climate change manifests in many ways across America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western...

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Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology

Rana El Kaliouby · Currency
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian-American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling--to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another.

Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native...
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