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Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
Greta Thunberg · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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"An extraordinary account of how one family rose, with unshakable moral clarity, to the tremendous responsibility of being alive at the moment when our immediate collective decisions will determine the fate of life on Earth. They share their story of courage not because they want our accolades,... |
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The Season: A Social History of the Debutante
Kristen Richardson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In this enthralling history of the debutante ritual, Kristen Richardson sheds new light on contemporary ideas about women and marriage.Kristen Richardson, from a family of debutantes, chose not to debut. But as her curiosity drove her to research this enduring custom, she learned that it, and debutantes,... |
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At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds
Dan Hooper · Princeton University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang -- and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universeScientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there... |
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Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Chapman, Kit · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An in-depth look at how elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us. The science of element discovery is a truly fascinating field, and is constantly rewriting the laws of chemistry and physics as we know them. Superheavy is the first book to take an in-depth look... |
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Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
Lydia Denworth · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory investigation of friendship, with profound implications for our understanding of what humans and animals alike need to thrive across a lifetime.The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds... |
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Busted in New York and Other Essays
Darryl Pinckney · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how we arrived at our current... |
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
Amy Shira Teitel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Spaceflight historian and creator of YouTube's "Vintage Space" Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.A book that will appeal to readers of Fly Girls and The Astronaut Wives' Club, Fighting... |
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