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The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu
Kimberly Burge · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A creative writing group unites and inspires girls of the first South African generation "born free."Born into post-apartheid South Africa, the young women of the townships around Cape Town still face daunting challenges. Their families and communities have been ravaged by poverty,... |
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Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy
Hallie Lieberman · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Mary Roach's Bonk, a brilliant microhistory of the sex toy that ultimately tells the story of our changing sexual mores and evolving cultural values. Once only whispered about in clandestine corners, vibrators have become just another accessory for the suburban soccer... |
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Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward
Englander · The Science Bookshelf
Format: Hardcover
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Learn how Sea Level Rise (SLR) is unstoppable for many centuries due to excess heat already stored in our oceans - and how soon our shorelines will go underwater ... Understand how disastrous SLR will profoundly affect more than 10,000 coastal communities as soon as 2050, both in the U.S.... |
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Cannibal
Safiya Sinclair · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 126
Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award Publishers Weekly Poetry Top 10 for Fall 2016Winner of the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryColliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history,... |
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The Science of Game of Thrones
Helen Keen · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A myth-busting, jaw-dropping, fun-filled tour through the science of your favorite fantastical world.
Award-winning comedian and popular-science writer Helen Keen uncovers the astounding science behind the mystical, blood-soaked world of Game of Thrones, answering questions... |
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The Nordic Kitchen: One year of family cooking
Claus Meyer · Mitchell Beazley
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In this book, Claus Meyer brings the ethos that built Noma into the world's best restaurant into the home with easy-going, accessible dishes that will fit seamlessly into family life. The book is divided into four seasonal chapters so that you can get the most from the food and flavors... |
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The Mission of a Lifetime: Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon
Basil Hero · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Former award-winning investigative reporter Basil Hero chronicles the lives and lessons of the twelve remaining Apollo astronauts. Only twenty-four human beings have travelled to the Moon. Theirs were the most daring voyages in mankind's history and their view of Earth from the moon... |
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The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace
ALEXANDER KLIMBURG · Penguin Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found... |
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