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Inside the Star Factory: The Creation of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Largest and Most Powerful Space Observatory

Chris Gunn - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating, ground-level backstage pass to the creation, launch, and reach of the James Webb Space Telescope.. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the world's largest orbiting astronomy observatory, is now nearly a million miles from Earth, probing the first stars and galaxies,...
 
 
The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy

Jessica Pishko - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School's J. Anthony Lukas Prize. A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement,...
 
 
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today "A...
 
 
Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age

Robert Skidelsky - Other Press
Format: Hardcover

This sweeping history of humanity's relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.. Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing...
 
 
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In John Grisham's first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, "the master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly) , to share ten harrowing...
 
 
At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans

Tessa Hill - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

The world's oceans are changing at a drastic pace. Beneath the waves and along the coasts, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. In response, the people who know the ocean most intimately are taking action for the sake...
 
 
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean

James Bradley - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

"Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and reader." - ROBERT MACFARLANE,...
 
 
Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making (Bloomsbury Sigma)

Anna Ploszajski - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Paperback

A fresh and entertaining perspective on materials science involving the craftspeople who have built their careers around working with materials such as clay, stone, steel and wool.. From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties...
 
 
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

Anthony Harkins - West Virginia Univ Pr
Format: First Edition

2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction. With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family...