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Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations

Cutter Wood - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You?) in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions - from mucus to sweat to poop - revealing them to be as fascinating as they are embarrassing and proving...
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The Saucerian: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker

Gabriel Mckee - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

The strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.Gray Barker (1925-1984) was an eccentric literary outsider, filled with ideas that were out of step with...
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Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century

Hannah Zeavin

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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

Thomas Levenson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning - and the pitfalls of ego - as it does about microbes.. Scientists and enthusiastic amateurs first confirmed the existence of living things invisible to the human eye in the late...
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Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing

Lili Taylor - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Eye-opening essays about searching for peace in the cacophony of birds and discovering a world of meaning in small moments - from award-winning actor Lili Taylor.Most people don't really know birds - or rather, they aren't aware of them. Lili Taylor used to be one of those people....
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Artificial Intelligence for Business: Harness AI for Value, Growth and Innovation

Kamales Lardi

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Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

Stephen S. Hall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding scientific and cultural study of snakes, the fascination and fear they inspire, and how surprising new science is indelibly changing our perception of these stunning and frightening creatures. For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures...
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More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

Adam Becker - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How Silicon Valley's heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions - with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth - pervert public discourse and distract us from real social problems . Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According...
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Nature at Night: Discover the Hidden World That Comes Alive after Dark

Charles Hood - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

A new world awakens in the dark, filled with spectacular bioluminescence, moon-kissed flora, and diverse wildlife - all captured in this spectacular photography book.. While old tales warn us that danger lies waiting in the dark, there is actually an abundance of thriving, colorful life....
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Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science

Therese Huston Ph.D. - Mayo Clinic Press
Format: Hardcover

What if your best days weren't left to chance, but something you could control and activate at will? Most of us want to be a little happier, a little more focused, and a lot less stressed. We want simple approaches that are easy to fold into our everyday lives. In Sharp, you'll...
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