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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
TED GENOWAYS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Is there still a place for the farm in today's America?The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a small ranch, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in York County,... |
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The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
Michael McCarthy - New York Review Books
Format: Print book
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The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths "would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard," is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling... |
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I Cant Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
Matt Taibbi - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police - from the bestselling author of The DivideNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTOn July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old... |
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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
Paul Collins - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university.On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting... |
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What Your Second Grader Needs to Know
E.D. Hirsch Jr. - Bantam
Format: Paperback
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"A revised and updated version of What Your Second Grader Needs to Know, Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education, with readings and activities in Literature, Mathematics, History, science, and the arts"-- |
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Forensic Science
Ayn Embar-seddon O'reilly - Salem Press
Format: Hardcover - Revised Ed.
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This completely updated, new edition of Forensic Science approaches its subject from multiple directions. One primary approach is from the points of view of forensic investigators. In addition to its core essays on subspecialties and allied fields, the set has essays on specific types of investigations,... |
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Bookclub Selection - May/June 2018"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits
Simon Schama - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings,... |
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Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know
Alex Prud'homme - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Constantly in the news and the subject of much public debate, fracking, as it is known for short, is one of the most promising yet controversial methods of extracting natural gas and oil. Today, 90 percent of natural gas wells use fracking. Though highly effective, the process-which fractures... |
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The Fracking Truth:America's Energy Revolution: the Inside, Untold Story
Chris Faulkner - Platform Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The revolution has already begun. The fracking revolution, that is. The Fracking Truth is a primer on America’s ongoing energy revolution, but it’s also a call to action. The oil and gas industry has failed itself and failed the American public by doing a poor job of educating... |
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Privacy in the New Media Age
Jon L. Mills - University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover
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"An essential book for anyone concerned with the increasingly ubiquitous clashes between a technologically borderless world, free press, safety and personal privacy." - Charlotte Laws, board member, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative "Elucidates a path that both enhances dignity... |
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Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death
Joshua Slocum - Upper Access, Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Decades after Jessica Mitford stunned America with vivid accounts of corruption and abuse in the death industry not much has improved Families are manipulated into buying expensive goods and services they dont need or want Prepaid funeral money vanishes into thin air Body parts are sold... |
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2017: Special Anniversary Edition
Old Farmer'S Almanac. - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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What is 225 years old yet always of the moment? The Old Farmer's Almanac! America's oldest continuously published periodical, beloved by generations for being "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," celebrates its unique history with a special edition and more readers... |
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide
Janet Portman - NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide gives landlords the legal and practical solutions they need to rent residential property right. From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues, including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants, and environmental hazards... |
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind... |
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P W Singer - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists... |
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark,... |
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Information Doesnt Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Cory Doctorow - McSweeneys
Format: Audiobook
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"Filled with wisdom and thought experiments and things that will mess with your mind." - Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American GodsIn sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorows Information Doesnt Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative... |
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IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans: Strategies for Taking Your Money Out
Twila Slesnick PhD Enrolled Agent - NOLO
Format: Thirteenth Edition
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Save your nest egg from the IRS . About to retire? Over 70 and facing mandatory withdrawal rules? Just inherited money from a retirement plan? . Whether you have an IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k) , Keogh or other retirement plan, this book will help you make sense of the rules for taking your money... |
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
Nicholas Carr - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already... |
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season.... |
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