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Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
Andreas Malm - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline. It might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of "overshoot," schemes abound for turning down the heat-not now,... |
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Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide
Keith Payne - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"An eye-opening analysis of why our politics have become so polarized ... .Keith Payne illuminates one of the biggest problems of our time and lights the way toward some promising solutions." - Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again "Good Reasonable... |
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Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
Sara Imari Walker - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges.. What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand... |
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In John Grisham's first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, "the master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly) , to share ten harrowing... |
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Jason De León - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed." - Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted and Poverty, by America. "An enlightening, frightening, unforgettable read."... |
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It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
Mark Miodownik - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.Gases are all around us - they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm our atmosphere.... |
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All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
Orlando Whitfield - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling insider's account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer. In development as a series for HBO. Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006... |
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Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
Tamsin Mather - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the world. In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us along on her globe-spanning... |
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