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Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles
Dan Ariely , · Harper Perennial |
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Three-time New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely teams up with legendary The New Yorker cartoonist William Haefeli to present an expanded, illustrated collection of his immensely popularWall Street Journal advice column, Ask Ariely.Behavioral economist Dan Ariely revolutionized... |
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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
Judith D Schwartz · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide... |
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How the World Breaks Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia
· New Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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We ve always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren t what they used to be. "How the World Breaks" gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth s hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive... |
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Sharing the Common Pool: Water Rights in the Everyday Lives of Texans
Charles R Porter, Jr. · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 247
Format: Print book |
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If all the people, municipalities, agencies, businesses, power plants, and other entities that think they have a right to the water in Texas actually tried to exercise those rights, there would not be enough water to satisfy all claims, no matter how legitimate. In Sharing the Common Pool:... |
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Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
Lydia V Pyne · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestorsOver the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most... |
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