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Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time

Robert Downey Jr - Blackstone Publishing Inc
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLERA Publishers Weekly Pick #1 New Release Barnes & Noble PickIn Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints--one...
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The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past ("A fascinating book that leaves you hungry for more."―Kirkus )

Taras Grescoe - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Anthony Bourdain, and Mark Bittman, an exciting and globe-trotting account of ancient cuisines - from Neolithic bread to ancient Roman fish sauce - and why reviving the foods of the past is the key to saving the future.Many of us are worried (or at least...
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Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World―and How You Can, Too

Ijeoma Oluo - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide...
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Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology

Rachel Morgan - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

An incisive history of early American archaeology - from reckless looting to professional science - and the field's unfinished efforts to make amends today.. American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-turned-antiquarians...
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The Mighty Goddess: World Myths

Sally Pomme Clayton - The History Press
Format: Hardcover

The Goddess in all her glory! A celebration of important and powerful goddess mythologies from around the world.. This stunning collection brings together goddess mythologies from across the globe: familiar, unknown, forgotten -- spectacular! Written by pioneering storyteller Sally Pomme...
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The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945

Becky M. Nicolaides - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

America's suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America's cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation--rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian,...
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

Benjamin Breen - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley.. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation....
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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

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 Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes

Paul Halpern - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

"A rich and rewarding history of one of the most astounding ideas in physics and astronomy" (Marcia Bartusiak) - that the universe we know isn't the only one . Our books, our movies - our imaginations - are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines, and the sense...
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We Need to Talk About Antisemitism

Rabbi Diana Fersko - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

A millennial rabbi explores why we're reluctant to discuss antisemitism - and empowers us to fight against it Antisemitism is on the rise in America, in cities and rural areas, in red states and blue states, and in guises both subtle and terrifyingly overt. Rabbi Diana Fersko is used...
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