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Spiders in Your Neighborhood: A Field Guide to Your Local Spider Friends, Revised and Expanded

PATRICK STADILLE - Heyday
Format: Paperback

A fun, friendly, all-ages field guide to common Western spiders Spiders! Scary? Maybe. Cool? Definitely. Author Pat Stadille used to be terribly afraid of these eight-legged daddies, until he started learning more about them. Now spiders are his best friends! Once you hear about their silky...
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Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

GAIA VINCE - ‎Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where -- and how -- we live"We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never...
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Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

Fariha Roisin - ‎Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status...
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The War on the West

Douglas Murray - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane...
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From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis

Marco Grasso - The MIT Press
Format: Paperback

How Big Oil can transform itself into Big Green through reparation and decarbonization to rectify the harm it has done through fossil fuels. . In From Big Oil to Big Green, Marco Grasso examines the responsibility of the oil and gas industry for the climate crisis and develops a moral...
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing - and one of the most decorated journalists of our time - twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue"I read everything he writes. Every time he writes...
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Enter a new dimension - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes."A stunning achievement, steeped in science but suffused with magic." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The GeneThe...
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The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

Yascha Mounk - ‎Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer . "[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book." - Anne Applebaum. "A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present...
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