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Late-Life Love: A Memoir

SUSAN GUBAR · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Tender, unsparing, poignant. . . . [A] love story that braids together intimate self-revelation with a rich meditation on the literature of aging." -- Stephen GreenblattOn Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles...
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The Ear Book: A Complete Guide to Ear Disorders and Health

Thomas J Balkany · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Intricately shaped and amazingly sensitive, ears are the organs of hearing and balance. When something goes wrong with the ears -- whether infection or cancer, eardrum perforation or hearing loss -- our overall well-being is generally disturbed.In The Ear Book, Drs. Thomas J. Balkany and Kevin...
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Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon

Frank Close · Oxford University Press
Pages: 219
Format: Hardcover

On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon....
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Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity, and Solve Any Problem

Bill Nye · Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover

In the New York Times bestseller Everything All at Once, Bill Nye shows you how thinking like a nerd is the key to changing yourself and the world around you. Everyone has an inner nerd just waiting to be awakened by the right passion. In Everything All at Once, Bill Nye will help you find...
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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us

Richard O Prum · Doubleday
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover

A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNALA major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences - what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful" - create...
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The Beast I Loved: A Battered Woman's Desperate Struggle To Survive

Robert Davidson · WildBlue Press
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback

Before domestic violence hot lines and safe houses were widespread, June Briand shot four bullets into her husband's head and was sentenced to fifteen years to life. This is the shocking true story of survival - and the intense bond June shared with her pathologically violent husband,...
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Baby Names 2019: This Year's Best Baby Names: State to State

Eleanor Turner · Crimson Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Choosing a name for your baby has never been easier or more enjoyable than with Baby Names 2019. Whether you are looking for a traditional name or something more adventurous, Baby Names 2019 will help solve your baby-naming dilemmas.Popular culture continues to affect baby naming. The recent...
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Artificial Intelligence For Dummies

JOHN PAUL MUELLER · For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Step into the future with AI The term "Artificial Intelligence" has been around since the 1950s, but a lot has changed since then. Today, AI is referenced in the news, books, movies, and TV shows, and the exact definition is often misinterpreted. Artificial Intelligence For Dummies...
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The Art of Rhetoric

Aristotle · Oxford University Press
Pages: 201
Format: Paperback

For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies...Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive works on rhetoric that we possess. In it, we are asked: What is a good speech? What do popular...
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Defiance: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard

Stephen Taylor · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The first major biography of eighteenth-century writer and socialite Lady Anne Barnard.Born in Scotland in 1750, Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society. She wrote one of the most popular ballads of her day, captivated Sir Walter Scott with her poetry, rubbed shoulders...
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