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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Timothy C. Winegard - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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**The instant New York Times bestseller.***An international bestseller.*"Hugely impressive, a major work." - NPRA pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia,... |
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Master the GRE General Test 2020
Peterson's
Format: Paperback(26th ed.)
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Peterson's Master the GRE General Test 2020 is the one-stop resource for preparing for the GRE General Test. This comprehensive guide is organized into six parts that include basic information about the test, a diagnostic test, thorough test-preparation material for the GRE General... |
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GED Test Prep Plus 2019: 2 Practice Tests Proven Strategies Online
Caren Van Slyke - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback
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With realistic practice, proven strategies, and expert guidance, Kaplan's GED Test Prep Plus 2019 gives you everything you need to pass the test. Kaplan is the official partner for live online prep for the GED test and our content is 100% aligned with the GED test objectives. For more... |
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Wings in the Light: Wild Butterflies in North America
David Lee Myers - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary look at the wild butterflies of North America, with hundreds of compelling original photographs See what it's like to stare a butterfly in the eyes. Lavishly illustrated and scientifically rigorous, this dazzling volume provides a comprehensive visual guide to the butterflies... |
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Savingforcollege.com's Complete Guide to 529 Plans: 2018/2019 12th Edition
Joseph F Hurley CPA - Savingforcollege.com Publications
Format: Paperback
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Savingforcollege.com's Complete Guide to 529 Plans is the ultimate guide for families and professionals looking to plan for the future. With over 100,000 copies sold, it continues to be the number one resource on all 529 programs and other college savings strategies (including Coverdell... |
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The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
Maggie Aderin-Pocock - Abrams Image
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered if there are seasons on the moon or if space tourism will ever become commonplace? So has Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock. In fact, she earned her nickname "Lunatic" because of her deep fascination for all things lunar. In her lucidly written, comprehensive guide... |
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Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World
Jessica Valenti - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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Championing Science: Communicating Your Ideas to Decision Makers
Roger D. Aines - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Championing Science shows scientists how to persuasively communicate complex scientific ideas to decision makers in government, industry, and education. This comprehensive guide provides real-world strategies to help scientists develop the essential communication, influence, and relationship-building... |
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How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
Cara O'Neill Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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If you're overwhelmed by debt, the bankruptcy system can help. How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy provides the clear information and step-by-step instructions you'll need to get through the entire process without an attorney. The book will help you determine whether you qualify... |
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Adam Piore - Ecco
Format: Print book
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For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize... |
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Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion
JIM WILLIAMS - Patagonia
Format: Hardcover
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During a time when most wild animals are experiencing decline in the face of development and climate change, the intrepid mountain lion -- also known as a puma, a cougar, and by many other names - has experienced reinvigoration as well as expansion of territory. What makes this cat, the fourth... |
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Caitlin Doughty - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen... |
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Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind
James R. Hansen - Purdue University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the years between the historic first moon landing by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2012, Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world, congratulating him, praising him, requesting pictures and autographs,... |
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One Giant Leap: The Untold Story of How We Flew to the Moon
Charles Fishman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author of The Wal-Mart Effect, Charles Fishman reveals the untold true story of the men and women charged with taking the United States to the Moon.President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress... |
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Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
Ken Follett - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Something priceless was dying in front of our eyes. The feeling was bewildering, as if the earth... |
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2019
Bill Cosby - Old Farmer's Almanac
Format: Audiobook
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It's another new year celebrating everything under the Sun, including the Moon, with The Old Farmer's Almanac, America's oldest continuously published periodical! Always timely, topical, and distinctively "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," the Almanac has been... |
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Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches
Gerry Brooks - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback
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From an elementary school principal and popular YouTube personality, inspiration and humor for educators to tackle the challenges they face day-in and day-outGerry Brooks is an elementary school principal turned YouTube celebrity who entertains K-12 teachers, administrators, and parents... |
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Howard Stern Comes Again
Howard Stern - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president. Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities - discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality,... |
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Fresh Face: Simple routines for beautiful glowing skin, every day
Mandi Nyambi - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback
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We all deserve to look our best, every day, and this lovely guide to skin care offers countless ideas, tips, and tricks for maintaining healthy, radiant skin. With more than 30 stressfree routines for every skin type - dry, oily, combination, aging - and for every moment in life - prepping... |
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Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings
Roger D. Launius - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group... |
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Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
James Poniewozik - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A generational work that, using television, reframes America's identity through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president.In the tradition of great cultural figures like Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik... |
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Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business
Fred S. Steingold Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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The all-in-one business law book Whether you're just starting a small business, or your business is already up and running, legal questions crop up on an almost daily basis. Ignoring them can threaten your enterprise -- but hiring a lawyer to help with routine issues can devastate the bottom... |
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How to Get Money for College 2020
Peterson's - Peterson's
Format: Paperback
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Peterson's How to Get Money for College 2020 is a great resource for students looking to supplement their federal financial aid package with aid from colleges and universities. This comprehensive directory points students and their families to complete and accurate information on need-based... |
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In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural... |
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Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World
Pat Mitchell - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and inspiring memoir and call to action from Pat Mitchell -- groundbreaking media icon, global advocate for women's rights, and co-founder and curator of TEDWomen Raised in a small town in Georgia with no money or connections, Pat Mitchell challenged expectations to become... |
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies.Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze... |
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Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink
Seth M. Siegel - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs... |
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One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels
Jonathan Vaughters - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, throught he eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport's most towering figures.Jonathan Vaughters' story is the story of modern cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown... |
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All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Michael Klare - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military.The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change -- still linked, for many people, with polar bears... |
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Dancing with Bees: A Journey Back to Nature
Brigit Strawbridge Howard - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A naturalist's passionate dive into the world of bees of all stripes--what she has learned about them, and what we can learn from them Brigit Strawbridge Howard was shocked the day she realised she knew more about the French Revolution than she did about her native trees. And birds. And wildflowers.... |
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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Vivian Gornick - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her lifeI sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can't remember the time when I didn't have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic... |
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Steven Greenhouse - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empoweredIn an era when corporate profits have soared while wages have flatlined, millions of Americans are searching for ways to improve... |
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Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook: Eighth Edition
Jim Trelease - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children--revised and updated for a new generation of readersRecommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more... |
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The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
Susan Hockfield - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear... |
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