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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal) , Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections... |
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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Joseph Menn · PublicAffairs
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom -- even democracy itselfCult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly... |
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Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
Matt McCarthy · Avery
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling author shares this exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs.Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front... |
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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Adam Frank · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Book
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Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own.
Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden... |
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Brainstorm: Detective Stories from the World of Neurology
Suzanne O'Sullivan · Other Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A leading neurologist recounts some of her most astonishing, challenging cases, which demonstrate how crucial the study of epilepsy has been to our understanding of the brain.Brainstorm follows the stories of people whose medical diagnoses are so strange even their doctor struggles to know... |
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Mark Miodownik · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: the New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters show us the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff."We all know that without water we couldn't survive,... |
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