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The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
Virginia Sole-Smith · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture.Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important... |
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Logic: A Very Short Introduction
Graham Priest · Oxford University Press Pages: 156 Format: Paperback
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Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal... |
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Sawbones: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
JUSTIN MCELROY · Weldon Owen Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be! Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered... |
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Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump
Dan Bongino · Post Hill Press Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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The comprehensive story of how the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton campaign, and foreign entities tried to sabotage the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.Everyone has an opinion about whether or not Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.... |
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Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer
FORREST PRITCHARD · The Experiment Pages: 272 Format: Paperback
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A totally modern, all-purpose handbook for today's agricultural dreamers - covering the challenges and triumphs of launching any successful farm - from two leading lights in sustainable farming Combining nearly five decades of experience from two of America's pioneering sustainable... |
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Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change
ANDREW REVKIN · Sterling Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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Andrew Revkin, who is the senior climate reporter at ProPublica after a prize-winning 21-year stint at The New York Times, presents an intriguing illustrated history of humanity's evolving relationship with Earth's dynamic climate system and the wondrous weather it generates. Colorful... |
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Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
Alice Gregory · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Sleep is vital to the way we learn, remember and forget, to how we feel about family and partners, our wellbeing, and our mental and physical health. It is essential for life itself. In Nodding Off, renowned sleep researcher Alice Gregory explores every aspect of sleep, from the different... |
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
STEPHEN HAWKING · Bantam Pages: 144 Format: Hardcover
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The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant and page-turning posthumous work.Why are we here? Will we survive? Will technology save us? How can we thrive?Stephen... |
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
RDE MacPhee · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth.Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller -- including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more -- roamed the earth. These... |
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