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New Titles - Science
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyThe gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine foreverIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed... |
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On Trails: An Exploration
Robert Moor · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award "The best outdoors book of the year" - Sierra Club A New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of 2016 - as chosen by The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Amazon, National Post, The Telegraph, BOOKLIST , The Guardian Bookshop,... |
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum · Doubleday
Pages: 461
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate todayIn 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect... |
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Kelly Weinersmith · Penguin Press
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover
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From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing What will the world of tomorrow be like?... |
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The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. Oliver... |
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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Scott Kelly · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.The veteran of four space flights and the American... |
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Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
Britt Wray · Greystone Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction from acclaimed documentarist and science writer Britt Wray.A captivating whirlwind tour through the birth and early life of the scientific idea known as "de-extinction." - Beth... |
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Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Harrison Allen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant exploration of the rising phenomenon of megafires - forest fires of alarming scale, intensity, and devastation - that explains the science of what is causing them and captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest... |
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker PhD · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most... |
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