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Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals

Nathan H Lents - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book

Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop...
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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945–1955

Ronald H Spector - ?W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II -- and determined the fate of the continent.The end of World War II led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades...
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Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life

Dianna Hunter - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback

A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mutually Assured Destruction...
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The Mindspan Diet: Reduce Alzheimer's Risk, Minimize Memory Loss, and Keep Your Brain Young

Preston W Estep - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

From an esteemed geneticist and the director of gerontology at the Personal Genome Project at Harvard Medical School comes a revolutionary plan for curbing memory loss and improving cognitive longevity that will forever change how you think about diet and aging. All around the world people...
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Emma and Her Selves: A Memoir of Treatment and a Therapist's Self-Discovery

MAY BEATAR - Ipbooks
Format: Paperback

emma and her selves is the story of a long term psychotherapeutic relationship between a woman with multiple identities, someone diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Dr. May Benatar shares some of her own process as a therapist discovering the ubiquity of trauma in both the general...
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Fodor's Essential Costa Rica 2019

Fodor's Travel Publications - Fodor's Travel
Format: Paperback

Written by locals, Fodor's Costa Rica 2019 is the perfect guidebook for those looking for insider tips to make the most out their visit. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this Costa Rica travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease. Join Fodor's in exploring...
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Meditations with Cows: What I've Learned from Daisy, the Dairy Cow Who Changed My Life

Shreve Stockton - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

Although there are nearly 100 million cattle in the United States, these animals are often ignored or dismissed. In Meditations with Cows, Shreve Stockton inspires a more reverential attitude toward these affectionate and intelligent creatures as she shares captivating stories and photos...
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Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

Volker Ullrich - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

From a New York Times best-selling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis that threatened to unravel the Weimar Republic.The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: "I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced...
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Lonely Planet Scotland's Highlands & Islands

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Scotland's Highlands & Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip the water of life, whisky, in an ancient...
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My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass.Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five...
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