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What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
John Brockman · Harper Perennial
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Drawing from the horizons of science, todays leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org The worlds smartest website—The... |
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Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint
D S Potter · Oxford University Press Pages: 280 Format: eBook
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Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548) . This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable... |
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Epilogue: A Memoir
Anne Richardson Roiphe · Harper Pages: 214 Format: Hardcover
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From Anne Roiphe, the critically acclaimed author of Fruitful, comes the New York Times bestselling Epilogue, a beautiful memoir about death, life, and widowhood. Roiphe explores what happened when, at age 70, she lost her husband of 40 years. Moving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage... |
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