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Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
Nancy A. Nichols - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the car has had - and will continue to have - on the lives of women.. Since their inception... |
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Church Pastor, Child Trafficker: The Crimes of Elsa Cuellar in a Border Town
Roger Rodriguez - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Since the early 1990s, Elsa Cuellar was able to operate in a way that left no trail. She would pose as a pastor, doctor, or lawyer to win the trust of her young victims. With the promise of a better life, citizenship, and education, these young girls were lured into the clutches of Cuellar's... |
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Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence
Samantha J. Simon - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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An inside look at how police officers are trained to perpetuate state violence. Michael Brown. Philando Castile. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. As the names of those killed by the police became cemented into public memory, the American public took to the streets in unprecedented numbers... |
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Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
Harry Cliff - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science has only recently glimpsed, and that could transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality.
Something strange is going on in the cosmos.... |
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Finding the Fox: Encounters With an Enigmatic Animal
Andreas Tjernshaugen - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate portrait of a mysterious and misunderstood animal.. "Tjernshaugen writes in an easy-to-read style that is full of insight and understanding. I felt like I was sitting beside him as he described fox behavior." - Rick McIntyre, Yellowstone wolf researcher and author... |
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Surviving Extreme Weather: The Complete Climate Change Preparedness Manual
Mykel Hawke - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback
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The only guide you need to prepare for the dangerous effects of climate change.. The world has changed, and impacts of global warming means weather events like extreme heat, wildfires, hurricanes, and droughts are now being felt by all of us. We can ignore climate change no longer and must... |
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The Oxford Companion to Wine
Julia Harding MW - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Everything you could possibly want to know about wine, in one fully up-to-date A-Z volume!. The Oxford Companion to Wine is a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth A-Z reference book on every aspect of wine: more than 4,000 entries covering topics from history through geography, geology,... |
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
Matt Strassler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all
In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human... |
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Shepherd's Sight: A Farming Life
Barbara McLean - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course... |
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