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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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The New World on Mars: What We Can Create On The Red Planet
Robert Zubrin - Diversion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Robert Zubrin, world-renowned space authority and founding president of the Mars Society taps today's newest science and most dogged research to foretell in astounding detail the brave, new Martian civilization we will achieve when (not if!) humankind colonizes MarsWhen Robert Zubrin... |
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Charan Ranganath - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma... |
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Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist Emma Flannery, delivers an informative-yet-intimate portrait of the megalodon, an extinct shark and the largest predator of all timeWhen Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilized tooth... |
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
John O'Connor - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Journalist and writer John O'Connor takes readers on a narrative quest through the American... |
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2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
Eric Klinenberg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg. "A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through... |
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The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
Ludovic Slimak - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species' unique form of intelligence.. What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other... |
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