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Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe
Jorge Cham - ?Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the same big questions. Why can't I travel back in time? Where did the universe come from? What's inside a black hole? Can I rearrange the particles... |
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Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
Philipp Dettmer - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you head... |
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Henry Gee - ?St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place -- in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched... |
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Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre - ?Washington Square Press; Later prt. edition
Format: Paperback
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In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre published his masterpiece, Being and Nothingness, and laid the foundation of his legacy as one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers. A brilliant and radical account of the human condition, Being and Nothingness explores what gives our lives significance.... |
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How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos
David Pogue - Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we're already living through the beginnings... |
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How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion
David DeSteno - ?Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Scientists are beginning to discover what believers have known for a long time: the rewards that a religious life can provide. For millennia, people have turned to priests and rabbis, imams, and shamans to help them deal with issues of grief and loss, birth and death, morality and meaning.... |
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Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
Katharine Hayhoe - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Called "one of the nation's most effective communicators on climate change" by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference... |
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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
Chris Hedges - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. In his first class at East Jersey State Prison,... |
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Move: The Forces Uprooting Us
Parag Khanna - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility - the ever-constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global events - wars and genocides, pandemics and plagues - have only accelerated the process. The map of humanity... |
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