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New Titles - Science
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The Secret Life of the Human Body: Uncover the Hidden Workings of Your Body
John Clancy · Firefly Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Getting to know just how intricate and fascinating our bodies are. Most of us take our body for granted and are never aware of its amazing capabilities. The Secret Life of the Human Body reveals just how intricate and fascinating our body is. Using offbeat illustrations and concise text,... |
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Spacecraft: 100 Iconic Rockets, Shuttles, and Satellites That Put Us in Space
Michael H Gorn · Voyageur Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Spacecraft takes a long look at humankind's attempts and advances in leaving Earth through incredible illustrations and authoritatively written profiles on Sputnik, the International Space Station, and beyond. In 1957, the world looked on with both uncertainty and amazement as the Soviet... |
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The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
Virginia Sole-Smith · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture.Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important... |
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Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence
Paul M. Sutter · Prometheus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An astrophysicist presents an in-depth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers, while conveying the excitement of astronomy.How is a galaxy billions of lightyears away connected to us? Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in an ocean of night? In this exciting... |
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Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History
Matthieu Auzanneau · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping, unabashed history of oil, Matthieu Auzanneau takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at the way oil interests have commandeered politics and economies, changed cultures, disrupted power balances across the globe, and spawned wars. He upends commonly held assumptions about... |
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The Worm Farmer's Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools, and Institutions
Rhonda Sherman · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Techniques and systems for processing food scraps, manure, yard debris, paper, and more Turning waste into wealth sounds too good to be true, but many worm farmers are finding that vermicomposting is a reliable way to do just that. Vermicast -- a biologically active, nutrient-rich mix of earthworm... |
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Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
Thomas Reinertsen Berg · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A heavily illustrated four-color history of mapmaking across centuries--a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers. Theater of the World offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, using the visual representation of the world through time to tell a new story about world history... |
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Jason Berry · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
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In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured... |
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North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring
BRUCE M BEEHLER · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The story of an ornithologist's journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the heartland and into Canada.In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward... |
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