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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

Eugenia Cheng - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover

How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth worldIn a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to listeners drowning in the illogic...
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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

Noah Strycker - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world - and deep connection with humanity.Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to understand...
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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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Global Warming: The Great Deception

Guy K Mitchell Jr. - Clovercroft Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Wall Street Journal Best Seller. "Global Warming:The Great Deception-The Triumph of Dollars and Politics Over Science and Why You Should Care"is the definitive new work on the subject of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. Guy Mitchell, a businessman with the mind of a scientist,...
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To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

Steven Weinberg - Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg - a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time.In this rich, irreverent, and compelling...
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Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

Michelle Nijhuis
Format: Hardcover

A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement -- told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it.In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement...
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Wildflowers of North America: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to More than 500 Flowering Plants

Damian Fagan
Format: Paperback

This user-friendly field guide to 600 wildflowers found in North America is organized by color and alphabetically to enable wildflower enthusiasts and nature lovers to identify and learn about the natural and cultural history of flowering plants.Color photographs accompanied by plant descriptions,...
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The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming

Eric Holthaus - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly...
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Alexa Hagerty - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice.. "Exhumation...
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Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology

Frederick Rowe Davis - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Rachel Carson’s eloquent book Silent Spring stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century and inspired important and long-lasting changes in environmental science and government policy. Frederick Rowe Davis thoughtfully sets Carson’s study in the context...
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