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New Titles - Professional & Technical
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
Erving Goffman · Anchor Books / Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave... |
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Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insider's Perspective
Gary Vogler · University Press of Kansas; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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Was the Iraq war really about oil? As a senior oil advisor for the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and briefly as minister of oil, Gary Vogler thought he knew. But while doing research for a book about his experience in Iraq, Vogler discovered that what... |
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID
Lawrence Wright · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events between the election of Joseph Biden and his inauguration, Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year surges forward with essential information--and... |
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Firefly Encyclopedia of the Vivarium: Keeping Amphibians, Reptiles, and Insects, Spiders and other Invertebrates in Terraria, Aquaterraria, and Aquaria
David Alderton · Firefly Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Keeping iguanas, frogs, insects and other invertebrates in a glass world is a popular pursuit. This practical, fully illustrated guide has everything the enthusiast needs to know, with a focus on beginners. A one-stop reference for those starting out with a terrarium or vivarium, it covers... |
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Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
Jeff Shesol · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race.If the United States couldn't catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War -- a perilous time... |
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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Avi Loeb · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi Loeb, Harvard's top astronomer, showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit,... |
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The Holy Earth
L.H. Bailey · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition
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The Holy Earth is a classic nature appreciation study by L.H. Bailey. So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our use of it; nor have... |
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