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The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

Kristen Richardson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

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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The Magick of Food: Rituals, Offerings & Why We Eat Together

Gwion Raven · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Delight Your Senses and Your Soul with a Feast of Recipes, Rituals, and SpellsDiscover a magickal collection of lore, recipes, and practices from modern and ancient cultures of the world. The Magick of Food reveals how to transform the mundane task of fueling your body into an opportunity...
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The Case for Climate Capitalism: Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis

Tom Rand · ECW Press
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover

A call for the Left and Right -- the business community and environmentalists, bankers and activists -- to join together, reclaim capitalism, and force profits to align with the planet A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide among those...
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Moths: A Complete Guide to Biology and Behavior

David Lees · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Accessible introduction to the biology, life cycle, natural history, and classification of mothsMoths are a crucial insect group encompassing more than 160,000 species, and they are among the most ancient of Earth's inhabitants, with some fossils believed to be 190 million years old....
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

ChristopherCaldwell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled - and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.Christopher Caldwell has spent...
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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

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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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

Brian Greene · Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the world-renowned physicist, cofounder of the World Science Festival, and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose.Brian Greene takes readers on a breathtaking journey from the big bang to the end of time...
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Half Broke: A Memoir

Ginger Gaffney · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"You will remember these tenacious and utterly winning people for a long, long time, and you will never forget the horses." -- Pam HoustonAn alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd...
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