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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

One of Bookpage's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) , Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.What's to be done about...
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Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight

Rod Pyle - Prometheus
Format: Print book

Award-winning science writer and documentarian Rod Pyle presents an insider's perspective on the most unusual and bizarre space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA. The incredible projects described here were not merely flights of fancy dreamed up by space enthusiasts, but actual...
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Oxyfuel gas welding and cutting

Kevin E. Bowditch - Goodheart-Willcox
Format: Eighth Edition, Revised, Textbook

Oxyfuel Gas Welding and Cutting provides students with a simple, unintimidating text to use when learning oxyfuel gas welding, cutting, and allied process (brazing, braze welding, and torch soldering) . This convenient write-in text is divided into 35 small, easy-to-understand units, with...
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If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

Christopher Ingraham - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham's decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400 - the community he made famous as "the worst place to live in America" in a story he wrote for the Washington...
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Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects

Jonathan Balcombe

For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every...
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Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity

Giles Sparrow - DK
Format: Hardcover

This compelling story of exploration charts and celebrates humankind in space, from Sputnik's launch in 1957 through the Apollo Moon landings and the International Space Station to future missions to Mars and beyond.Spaceflight chronicles how, in the half-century that followed Sputnik,...
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Saidiya V Hartman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography "Exhilarating ... A rich resurrection...
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Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense

Caroline E Light - Beacon Press
Format: Print book

A history of America's Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon MartinIn the aftermath of the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, conservative legislators and school administrators shocked some observers when they proposed armed "public school patrols"...
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Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America

Mark A. Bradley - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The shocking assassination that catalyzed groundbreaking reform in Big Coal.In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally...
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Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America's Most Wanted Crime Boss

Casey Sherman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Based on exclusive, fresh reporting, the thrilling, definitive inside story of the pursuit, capture, and killing of legendary South Boston mob boss, James "Whitey" Bulger, detailing as never before his years on the run, how he evaded capture, and his brutal murder in prison.For...
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