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Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
Teresa Ghilarducci - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States - and how we can fix it. While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all.... |
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Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time
Robert Downey Jr - Blackstone Publishing Inc
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLERA Publishers Weekly Pick #1 New Release Barnes & Noble PickIn Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints--one... |
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
Mr. Gareth Russell - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Paperback
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This original and "meticulously researched retelling of history's most infamous voyage" (Denise Kiernan, New York Times best-selling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought... |
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Cemetery and Gravestone Handbook: For Genealogists and Family Historians
Gary W. Clark - Phototree.com
Format: Paperback
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CEMETERY and GRAVESTONE HANDBOOK looks at a variety of topics that researches find difficult to master. Each and every one can enhance the history and story of your ancestors. The chapters will help you with: - Finding and documenting your ancestors- Getting the most out of cemeteries,... |
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Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
Sarah Scoles - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape. Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height of that conflict. Despite... |
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Ashley Shew - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease... |
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The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans
Laura Trethewey - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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"Should be required reading. . . . A gripping and all-too-timely account of what in more ways than one is turning out to be a very costly and questionably necessary race to the bottom. . . . Trethewey rises to the occasion here, relating in absorbing detail the ebb and flow of conflicting... |
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The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
Dr. Alfonso Martinez Arias Ph.D. - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A leading developmental biologist argues that cells, not DNA, hold the key to understanding life's past and present What defines who we are? For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life." In The Master Builder, biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias... |
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Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark
Greg Skomal - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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As shark attacks continue to rise along the coast of New England, Dr. Greg Skomal, the leading great white shark expert in the country, takes readers on a gripping exploration of these apex predators and the fascinating story behind their resurgence.August 2012 marked the first shark attack... |
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