That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
Crown
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9780593136270
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Hardcover
The Speckled Beauty
By Bragg, Rick
Speck is not a good boy. He is, a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, 76 pounds of wet hair and poor decisions.Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left him lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the Rose of Sharon. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.
Knopf
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9780525658818
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Hardcover
McGraw-Hill Education GRE 2021
By Geula, Erfun
We Will Help You Get Your Best Score!. With more than 125 years of experience in education, McGraw-Hill Education is the name you trust to deliver results. This MHE guide is the most comprehensive and relevant prep tool on the market. We will help you excel on the GRE with:. 3 full-length practice tests. A thorough review of the math concepts essential to the GRE. Extensive practice questions for both the Verbal and Quantitative Sections. Techniques for success on Data Interpretation questions. Practice and sample high-scoring essays for Analytical Writing assignments. Up-to-date information on scoring and test format. Invaluable shortcuts to help you save time and minimize mistakes. . Test-Taking Tips. Learn techniques developed by the author to help you avoid the test makers traps.. Quant Strategies. Discover the authors own strategies for mastering Quantitative Comparison questions.
McGraw-Hill Education
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9781260463323
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7th Edition
Rust
By Goldbach, Eliese Colette
A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland.Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill...To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian roots, Eliese found herself applying for a job at the local steel mill. The mill is everything she was trying to escape, but it's also her only shot at financial security in an economically devastated and forgotten part of America. In Rust, Eliese brings the reader inside the belly of the mill and the middle American upbringing that brought her there in the first place. She takes a long and intimate look at her Rust Belt childhood and struggles to reconcile her desire to leave without turning her back on the people she's come to love. The people she sees as the unsung backbone of our nation. Faced with the financial promise of a steelworker's paycheck, and the very real danger of working in an environment where a steel coil could crush you at any moment or a vat of molten iron could explode because of a single drop of water, Eliese finds unexpected warmth and camaraderie among the gruff men she labors beside each day.Appealing to readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, Rust is a story of the humanity Eliese discovers in the most unlikely and hellish of places, and the hope that therefore begins to grow.
Publisher: n/a
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9781250239402
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Hardcover
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By Laymon, Kiese
Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This newedition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon's first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family's experiences, while simultaneously examining the world - Mississippi, the South, the United States - that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon's profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience, trumpeting why he is "simply one of the most talented writers in America" (New York magazine) .
Publisher: n/a
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9781982170820
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Paperback
Passing
By Korda, Michael
In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer.It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, "Michael, I think something serious is wrong with me." Within a few rapid weeks, the fiercely independent, former fashion model was diagnosed with brain cancer, while Michael, once reliant on her steeliness, became her caregiver, deciphering bewildering medical reports and packing her beloved toiletries for the hospital. An operation performed by a renowned surgeon allowed Margaret to ride her favorite competition horse Logan go Bragh a few more times, but Margaret's tumors quickly returned -- leaving her to grapple with the reality of impending death. In rapturous prose, Korda, a modern- day Orpheus, braids her heroic story with heartrending details of their final year together. Passing, a tender memoir, is a testament to the transcendent possibilities of love. 4 photographs
Liveright
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9781631494642
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Hardcover
2020 / 2021 ASVAB For Dummies, Book 7 Practice Tests Online Flashcards Videos
By Johnston, Angie Papple
For Dummies
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9781119684428
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Paperback
Princeton Review GED Test Prep, 2021
By Review, The Princeton
Princeton Review
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9780525569398
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Paperback
ASVAB Prep Plus 2020-2021
By Prep, Kaplan Test
Kaplan's ASVAB Prep Plus 2020-2021 features proven strategies and realistic practice for all sections of the ASVAB and AFQT. This edition includes flashcards, expert videos, and an online Quiz Bank with over 250 questions to help you face the test with confidence.Kaplan is so certain that ASVAB Prep Plus 2020-2021 offers all the knowledge you need to excel at the ASVAB that we guarantee it: After studying with the online resources and book, you'll score higher on the ASVAB - or you'll get your money back.Get everything in ASVAB Prep 2020-2021, plus two more practice tests, 650 additional practice questions, and flashcards from our all-star team of test experts.With ASVAB Prep Plus 2020-2021 you can study on the go. Log in from anywhere to watch video lessons, complete quizzes and take practice tests.The Most PracticeFlashcards to help you reinforce important concepts for the technical subtestsSix introductory math videos that review basic concepts commonly seen in the Arithmetic Reasoning and Mathematics Knowledge subtestsMore than 1,850 realistic practice questions with explanationsSix full-length ASVAB practice tests with detailed explanations: 3 online and 3 in the bookCustomize your practice with an online Quiz Bank that lets you select problems by topic and difficultyTear-out math and verbal study sheets for portable review and an extensive word list to help you build your vocabularyDetailed subject review, including targeted strategies for vocabulary questions and math problem solvingExpert GuidanceComprehensive content review and expert methods for tackling all technical topics: science, electronics, auto/shop, mechanical information, and object assemblySpecific strategies for mastering the Computer Adaptive Test formatWe invented test prep - Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams.
Publisher: n/a
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9781506250656
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Paperback
Atlas of the Invisible
By Cheshire, James
An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society -- visualized through the world of data.Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness levels around the globe, trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us, examine hidden scars of geopolitics, and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj. Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise and peril of data, and to revel in the secrets and contours of a newly visible world.
Under a White Sky
By Kolbert, Elizabeth
That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
The Speckled Beauty
By Bragg, Rick
Speck is not a good boy. He is, a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, 76 pounds of wet hair and poor decisions.Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left him lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the Rose of Sharon. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.
McGraw-Hill Education GRE 2021
By Geula, Erfun
We Will Help You Get Your Best Score!. With more than 125 years of experience in education, McGraw-Hill Education is the name you trust to deliver results. This MHE guide is the most comprehensive and relevant prep tool on the market. We will help you excel on the GRE with:. 3 full-length practice tests. A thorough review of the math concepts essential to the GRE. Extensive practice questions for both the Verbal and Quantitative Sections. Techniques for success on Data Interpretation questions. Practice and sample high-scoring essays for Analytical Writing assignments. Up-to-date information on scoring and test format. Invaluable shortcuts to help you save time and minimize mistakes. . Test-Taking Tips. Learn techniques developed by the author to help you avoid the test makers traps.. Quant Strategies. Discover the authors own strategies for mastering Quantitative Comparison questions.
Rust
By Goldbach, Eliese Colette
A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland.Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill...To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian roots, Eliese found herself applying for a job at the local steel mill. The mill is everything she was trying to escape, but it's also her only shot at financial security in an economically devastated and forgotten part of America. In Rust, Eliese brings the reader inside the belly of the mill and the middle American upbringing that brought her there in the first place. She takes a long and intimate look at her Rust Belt childhood and struggles to reconcile her desire to leave without turning her back on the people she's come to love. The people she sees as the unsung backbone of our nation. Faced with the financial promise of a steelworker's paycheck, and the very real danger of working in an environment where a steel coil could crush you at any moment or a vat of molten iron could explode because of a single drop of water, Eliese finds unexpected warmth and camaraderie among the gruff men she labors beside each day.Appealing to readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, Rust is a story of the humanity Eliese discovers in the most unlikely and hellish of places, and the hope that therefore begins to grow.
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By Laymon, Kiese
Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This newedition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon's first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family's experiences, while simultaneously examining the world - Mississippi, the South, the United States - that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon's profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience, trumpeting why he is "simply one of the most talented writers in America" (New York magazine) .
Passing
By Korda, Michael
In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer.It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, "Michael, I think something serious is wrong with me." Within a few rapid weeks, the fiercely independent, former fashion model was diagnosed with brain cancer, while Michael, once reliant on her steeliness, became her caregiver, deciphering bewildering medical reports and packing her beloved toiletries for the hospital. An operation performed by a renowned surgeon allowed Margaret to ride her favorite competition horse Logan go Bragh a few more times, but Margaret's tumors quickly returned -- leaving her to grapple with the reality of impending death. In rapturous prose, Korda, a modern- day Orpheus, braids her heroic story with heartrending details of their final year together. Passing, a tender memoir, is a testament to the transcendent possibilities of love. 4 photographs
2020 / 2021 ASVAB For Dummies, Book 7 Practice Tests Online Flashcards Videos
By Johnston, Angie Papple
Princeton Review GED Test Prep, 2021
By Review, The Princeton
ASVAB Prep Plus 2020-2021
By Prep, Kaplan Test
Kaplan's ASVAB Prep Plus 2020-2021 features proven strategies and realistic practice for all sections of the ASVAB and AFQT. This edition includes flashcards, expert videos, and an online Quiz Bank with over 250 questions to help you face the test with confidence.Kaplan is so certain that ASVAB Prep Plus 2020-2021 offers all the knowledge you need to excel at the ASVAB that we guarantee it: After studying with the online resources and book, you'll score higher on the ASVAB - or you'll get your money back.Get everything in ASVAB Prep 2020-2021, plus two more practice tests, 650 additional practice questions, and flashcards from our all-star team of test experts.With ASVAB Prep Plus 2020-2021 you can study on the go. Log in from anywhere to watch video lessons, complete quizzes and take practice tests.The Most PracticeFlashcards to help you reinforce important concepts for the technical subtestsSix introductory math videos that review basic concepts commonly seen in the Arithmetic Reasoning and Mathematics Knowledge subtestsMore than 1,850 realistic practice questions with explanationsSix full-length ASVAB practice tests with detailed explanations: 3 online and 3 in the bookCustomize your practice with an online Quiz Bank that lets you select problems by topic and difficultyTear-out math and verbal study sheets for portable review and an extensive word list to help you build your vocabularyDetailed subject review, including targeted strategies for vocabulary questions and math problem solvingExpert GuidanceComprehensive content review and expert methods for tackling all technical topics: science, electronics, auto/shop, mechanical information, and object assemblySpecific strategies for mastering the Computer Adaptive Test formatWe invented test prep - Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams.
Atlas of the Invisible
By Cheshire, James
An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society -- visualized through the world of data.Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness levels around the globe, trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us, examine hidden scars of geopolitics, and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj. Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise and peril of data, and to revel in the secrets and contours of a newly visible world.