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New Titles - Science
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Five Photons: Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time
Geach, James
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the universe is written in the light that travels through it - the light that we can capture, that is. Nearly everything we know about how the universe works on its grandest scale comes from the analysis of light, of photons that may have journeyed for nearly fourteen billion... |
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Mythos
Fry, Stephen · Chronicle Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Here are the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, stylishly retold by Stephen Fry. The legendary writer, actor, and comedian breathes life into ancient tales, from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire, and transforms the adventures of Zeus and the Olympians into... |
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Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
Mike Thomson · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege.Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged... |
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Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
Hoberman, J. · The New Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman's Make My Day is a major new work... |
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Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement: Creating a Thinking Culture in the Classroom
Rebecca Stobaugh · Solution Tree Press
Pages: 248
Format: Perfect Paperback
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Transform your classroom culture from one of passive knowledge consumption to one of active learning and student engagement. In this well-researched book, author Rebecca Stobaugh shares how to build a culture of thinking that emphasizes essential 21st century skills -- from critical thinking... |
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The Plateau
Paxson, Maggie · Riverhead Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers,... |
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Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
Monroe, Rachel · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four archetypes - Detective, Victim, Defender, Killer - to four true stories about women driven by obsession.In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates... |
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Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood
Maureen Stanton · HighBridge Audio
Format: Hardcover
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The "mesmerizing . . . daring and important"* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town *Andre Dubus IIIFor Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line ("If you don't... |
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