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Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste

Eduardo Garcia - ?Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

Learn what you can do right now to reduce your carbon footprint with this inspiring, accessible, stunningly illustrated book based on Eduardo Garcia's popular New York Times column.   "This beautiful and practical book on the climate crisis is for people of all ages, packed with...
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

An essential journey through the American South - and the way it defines American identity - from one our most extraordinary writers on race and culture at work today We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list...
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A Republic Under Assault: The Left's Ongoing Attack on American Freedom

Tom Fitton - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

Tom Fitton's first two New York Times bestselling books, The Corruption Chronicles and Clean House, exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of Obama's two terms. Now, in Fitton's latest investigative probe, he identifies the four major forces posing a continued threat to American...
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The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again

Catherine Price - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

When was the last time you felt exhilarated and lighthearted? When was the last time you were engaged, focused, connected, and completely present? When was the last time you felt fully alive?When was the last time that - in other words - you had fun?If you can't think of an example,...
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Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet

Leonard David - National Geographic Soc
Format: Print book

The next frontier in space exploration is Mars, the red planet and human habitation of Mars isn t much farther off. In October 2015, NASA declared Mars an achievable goal; that same season, Ridley Scott and Matt Damon s"The Martian"drew crowds into theaters, signaled by its nearly...
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Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

Michaeleen Doucleff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

When Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff became a mother, she examined the studies behind modern parenting guidance and found that the evidence was frustratingly limited and the conclusions often ineffective. If all the might of contemporary Western psychology couldn't supply the answers to her parenting...
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Algebra 2: The Easy Way

Meg Clemens - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback

This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for an algebra class. Algebra 2: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn algebra the easy way.Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra...
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson...
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon - ?Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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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Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors

Brian Fagan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. But we have one powerful advantage as we face...
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