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Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
Miriam Darlington - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Beguiling. The gentle and persistent search by Darlington sparkles." - The GuardianA plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend a whole year or longer, if that's what it took, wading through marshes, hiding between mossy... |
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon - ?Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writerWhy do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer's? Why do girls score better at every... |
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
Christopher Caldwell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled - and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.Christopher Caldwell has spent... |
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered... |
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On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
Thomas Hertog - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the cosmos - a dramatic revision of the theory he put forward in A Brief History of Time.. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe... |
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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Nicola Twilley - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve...as a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done." - Mary Roach, author of Fuzz and Stiff. An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution... |
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Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
Mark C Serreze - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An insider account of how researchers unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world.... |
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Amanda Jones - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories."-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards. "Amanda Jones... |
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