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New Titles - Science
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Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light
Bob Berman · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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How much do you know about the radiation all around you?Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot... |
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A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future
Jonas Salk · City Point Press Pages: 251 Format: Hardcover
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A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future provides a startling, fresh new message of understanding, perspective and hope for today's tense, rapid-fire, kaleidoscopically changing world.Drawn from the writings of visionary scientist Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine,... |
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Whales: An Illustrated Celebration
Kelsey Oseid · Ten Speed Press Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeously illustrated, entertaining, and educational guide to the wonderful whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the world.Some of the world's most fascinating and beloved animals, cetaceans--whales, dolphins, and porpoises--have captivated the human imagination for centuries. Whales:... |
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Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
Lucie Greene · Counterpoint Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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A bracing look at how Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and other Silicon Valley power players are using their influence across the globe to encroach upon our civil landscape In an era when faith in government and its institutions is quickly eroding, the businesses of Silicon Valley are stepping... |
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Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
Alice Gregory · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Sleep is vital to the way we learn, remember and forget, to how we feel about family and partners, our wellbeing, and our mental and physical health. It is essential for life itself. In Nodding Off, renowned sleep researcher Alice Gregory explores every aspect of sleep, from the different... |
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
MARYANNE WOLF · Harper Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne... |
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Killing It: An Education
Camas Davis · Penguin Press Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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A wayward young woman abandons her magazine career to learn the old ways of butchery and discover what it means to take life into her own handsCamas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon... |
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Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water's Edge
Susan Hand Shetterly · Algonquin Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Glimpse the wonders of a hidden world. An ancient, and vital, part of nature's ecosystem, seaweed is now emerging as an increasingly important source of food in a world faced with diminishing natural resources. In Seaweed Chronicles, acclaimed nature writer Susan Hand Shetterly... |
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