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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
Earl Swift · Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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In this follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, Earl Swift rediscovers the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions - distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle - were the pinnacle of human exploration.... |
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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
Sarah Everts · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A taboo-busting romp through the shame, stink, and strange science of sweating.Sweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but it's also one of our most vital and least understood. In The Joy of Sweat, Sarah Everts delves into its role in the body -- and in human history.Why... |
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Cynthia Barnett · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans, and ourselves.Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry... |
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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · ?One World
Format: Paperback
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There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it's clear that women and girls are vital voices and agents of change for this... |
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T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
Carole Hooven · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The biological source of virility and masculinity has inspired fascination, investigation, and controversy since antiquity. From the eunuchs in the royal courts of ancient China to the booming market for "elixirs" of youth in nineteenth-century Europe, humans have been obsessed... |
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After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
Eric Dean Wilson · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The closest we've come to the destruction of all life on earth isn't by nuclear holocaust. It's not by bombing; it's not by intention at all. It's not by natural forces, either, not by plague, or famine, or earthquake, or volcano. No, the closest we've come to destruction... |
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The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
Joe Keohane
Format: Hardcover
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In The Power of Strangers, journalist Joe Keohane takes us through an inquiry into our shared history, one that offers surprising and compelling insights into our own social and political moment. But if strangers seem to some to be the problem, history, data, and science show us that they... |
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