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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison

Chris Hedges - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. In his first class at East Jersey State Prison,...
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Live Sustainably Now: A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life

Coplan, Karl - COLUMBIA UNIV PR


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The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way

Lindley, David - DOUBLEDAY & CO

A vivid and captivating narrative about how modern science broke free of ancient philosophy, and how theoretical physics is returning to its unscientific roots. In the early 17th century Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically changed...
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We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

Sally Adee - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity - the electric currents that run through our bodies - its misunderstood history of quackery, charlatanism, and yes, shortages of frogs, and why new discoveries will lead to improved antibiotics, cleared arteries, and new ways...
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Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

Noam Chomsky - Verso
Format: Paperback

In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change - and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New Deal. Together, Chomsky...
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The War on the West

Douglas Murray - Broadside
Format: Hardcover

China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane...
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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

In his acclaimed 2016 book Other Minds, the philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus -- the closest thing to an intelligent alien on earth, as he put it. In Metazoa, Godfrey-Smith expands his inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution...
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How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe--from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang

Harry Cliff - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Carl Sagan famously said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." But what fundamental matter is the universe made of? What banged in the Big Bang? And how did that matter arise from nothing into the world we now know? In How to Make...
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Ferris Jabr - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life.. One of humanity's oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed...
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The Secret Life of the Human Body: Uncover the Hidden Workings of Your Body

John Clancy - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

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...
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