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The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late
CARBON ALMANAC NETWORK. - Portfolio
Format: Paperback
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When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action.The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, and now we face a critical decision. Whether to be optimistic or fatalistic, whether to profess skepticism... |
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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
NICK LANE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Kindle Edition
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From the renowned biochemist and author of The Vital Question, an illuminating inquiry into the Krebs cycle and the origins of life."Nick Lane's exploration of the building blocks that underlie life's big fundamental questions - the origin of life itself, aging, and disease... |
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Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
SEIRIAN SUMNER - Harper
Format: Kindle Edition
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"A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from." - Robin Ince, author of The Importance of Being InterestedIn this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading... |
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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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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Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
LYNDSIE BOURGON - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us to tree... |
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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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 Birdman of Koshkonong: The Life of Naturalist Thure Kumlien
Martha Bergland - Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Format: Paperback
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Thure Kumlien was one of Wisconsin's earliest Swedish settlers and an accomplished ornithologist, botanist, and naturalist in the mid-1800s, though his name is not well known today. He settled on the shore of Lake Koshkonong in 1843 and soon began sending bird specimens to museums and collectors... |
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Hitmen: The Mafia, Drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang
Scott M Deitche - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the star reviewed Garden State Gangland comes an in-depth exposé on East Harlem's notorious Purple Gang whose murderous exploits became a media obsession and Mafia lynchpin.In the late 1970s, a string of seemingly unconnected murders had Harlem police and federal... |
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