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Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species

SANG-HEE LEE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

In this captivating bestseller, Korea's first paleoanthropologist offers fresh insights into humanity's dawn and evolution.What can fossilized teeth tell us about the life expectancy of our ancient ancestors? How did farming play a problematic role in the history of human evolution? How can simple...
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Evolutionary Herbalism: Science, Spirituality, and Medicine from the Heart of Nature

Sajah Popham - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

Weaving together herbal and medical traditions from around the world into a singular cohesive model, this groundbreaking book guides herbal practitioners to a comprehensive understanding of the practice and philosophy of healing with herbs.Written by a rising star in the field, Evolutionary...
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

Kyle Harper - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role...
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Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses

John Dvorak - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex." They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad...
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Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity

MICHAEL KINCH - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate. If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing -- cases of measles,...
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The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites...
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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit

Deepak Chopra - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The...
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides

MARIANO SIGMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international...
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions

STEPHEN HAWKING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind."Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity's...
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker PhD - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most...
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mindEmotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today,...
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My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors

Lindsay McCrae - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A "remarkable memoir" (Nature) of life with an emperor penguin colony, gorgeously illustrated with 32 pages of exclusive photography For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica....
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Constellations: The Story of Space Told Through the 88 Known Star Patterns in the Night Sky

Govert Schilling - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for stargazers and armchair astronomers of all ages, CONSTELLATIONS is a beautifully illustrated, fascinatingguide to all 88 constellations, including an illustrated star map for each.In CONSTELLATIONS, award-winning astronomy writer Govert Schilling takes us on an unprecedented...
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The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have

Bonnie Rochman - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A sharp-eyed exploration of the promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventionsIs screening for disease in an embryo a humane form of family planning or a slippery slope toward eugenics? Should doctors tell you that your infant daughter is genetically predisposed...
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Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters

FREEMAN DYSON - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Both recalling his life story and recounting many of the major advances in twentieth-century science, a renowned physicist shares his autobiography through letters. While recognizing that quantum mechanics "demands serious attention," Albert Einstein in 1926 admonished fellow...
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Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy

Govert Schilling - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ago, but they were never perceived directly until now. Decades in the making, this momentous...
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution

Jonathan B Losos - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point...
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The Universe as It Really Is: Earth, Space, Matter, and Time

Thomas R Scott - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

The universe that science reveals to us can seem far outside the comfort zone of the human mind. Subjects near and far open up dizzying vistas, from the infinitesimal to the colossal. Humanity, the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on unimaginable scales, inhabits a tumultuous...
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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

Michael Benson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film's release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created...
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An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me About Love, Courage and Survival

Françoise Malby-Anthony - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"Malby-Anthony offers a book of great inspiration and wide appeal to nature-loving readers." -- Publishers WeeklyA heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony's wife Franoise Malby-Anthony. A chic Parisienne,...
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year"...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?

Lawrence M Krauss - Atria Books
Format: Print book

Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality - a grand poetic vision...
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When Einstein Walked with Gdel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

Jim Holt - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Godel: Excursions to the Edge...
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Bill McKibben - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long...
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The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love

Michael Lemonick - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking...
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Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies

Mark Zegarelli - For Dummies
Format: Print book

Master the fundamentals first for a smoother ride through math Basic Math & Pre-Algebra Workbook For Dummies is your ticket to finally getting a handle on math! Designed to help you strengthen your weak spots and pinpoint problem areas, this book provides hundreds of practice problems...
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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature

P W Atkins - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants...
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

Dean Buonomano - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell,...
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The Cat in the Box: A History of Science in 100 Experiments

Mary Gribbin - Race Point Publishing
Format: Hardcover

This book distills the history of science into 100 epic experiments that have fueled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses, such as the bending...
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet

Mckay Jenkins - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us. In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding...
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The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business

Wright Thompson - ‎Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The instant New York Times bestseller!From one of Americas most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of
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Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why

Dean Burnett - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Neuroscientist Dean Burnett dives into the squishy science and bubbly feelings of what happiness means.The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common and enduring quests of human life. Its what drives us to get a job, fall in love, watch stand-up comedy, go to therapy, have questionable...
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Diagnosis: Truths and Tales

Annemarie Jutel - University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Format: Paperback

The announcement of a serious diagnosis is a solemn moment when directions shift, priorities change, and life appears in sharper focus. It is also a moment when a story takes shape. It is a story we are able to imagine, even if we haven't experienced it firsthand, because the moment...
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Janna Levin - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves - by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record...
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

David Quammen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine...
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

STEVEN PINKER - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason...
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Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight

Vanessa Potter - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) , a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home,...
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything

MARCUS CHOWN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least...
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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Marcus du Sautoy - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." - Bill Bryson A captivating journey to the outer reaches of human knowledgeEver since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know - to understand the physical...
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Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth

R L Wesson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

An acclaimed geologist leads the reader on an adventure through the landscape that absorbed and inspired Charles Darwin.Everybody knows -- or thinks they know -- Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people...
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Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life

One R. Pagan - BenBella Books
Format: Paperback

Life is beautiful, ruthless, and very, very strange.. In the evolutionary arms race that has raged on since life began, organisms have developed an endless variety of survival strategies. From sharp claws to brute strength, camouflage to venom - all these tools and abilities share one purpose:...
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The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight

SATCHIDANANDA PANDA - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

When we eat may be as important as what we eat. Like most people, you probably wake up, get hungry for meals and doze off in bed around the same time every day. If you've ever experienced jet lag or pulled an all-nighter, you know that this schedule can easily be thrown off kilter....
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Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

Ron Cowen - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved...
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Fun Science: A Guide To Life, The Universe And Why Science Is So Awesome

Charlie Mcdonnell - Quadrille Pub
Format: Print book

Welcome, fellow humans (and others) , to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I'm Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike.In my book, I'll be taking you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the Solar System and the origins of life...
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

William Rosen - Viking
Format: Print book

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less...
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal and Human Emotions

Frans de Waal - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

HANS ROSLING - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends -- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish...
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Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science

James A Mahaffey - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The latest investigation from acclaimed nuclear engineer and author James Mahaffey unearths forgotten nuclear endeavors throughout history that were sometimes hair-brained, often risky, and always fascinating. Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent,...
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Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos

Brian Cox - Da Capo
Format: Book

In Universal, bestselling physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Why Does E=mc2?) take us on an inspirational journey of scientific exploration. They show that, by asking questions about the world around us, anyone can think like a physicist and grasp the breath-taking grandeur of the cosmos.Universal...
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

Venki Ramakrishnan - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end."--Siddhartha Mukherjee,...
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Elegant Defense, An: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

Matt Richtel - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA grand tour of the human immune system and the secrets of health, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist"One of those rare nonfiction books that transcends the genre. ... Extraordinary." - Douglas PrestonA terminal cancer patient rises from...
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The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

ROBERT H LUSTIG - Avery
Format: Hardcover

"Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts." - David Perlmutter, MD, Author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain and Brain MakerThe New York Times-bestselling author of Fat Chance reveals the corporate...
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

Barbara K Lipska - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness - only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains...
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BTS: K-Pops International Superstars

Katy Sprinkel - Triumph Books
Format: Paperback

BTS: K-Pops International Superstars is the must-have celebration of RM, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin, V, Jin, and Jungkook, who have won over fans across the globe with hits like "DNA" and "MIC Drop." With dozens of stunning full-color photographs, this volume offers an extensive...
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Losing Earth: A Recent History

Nathaniel Rich - MCD
Format: Hardcover

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change -- including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world...
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson...
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Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention

Kathryn D. Sullivan - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed...
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Nicholas A. Christakis - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, New York Times) , Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane...
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

Christopher Caldwell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled - and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.Christopher Caldwell has spent...
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Genetics 101: FromChromosomesand the Double Helix to Cloning and DNA Tests, Everything You Need to Know about Genes

Beth Skwarecki - Adams Media
Format: Hardcover

A clear and straightforward explanation of genetics in this new edition of the popular 101 series. Our genetic makeup determines so much about who we are, and what we pass on to our children - from eye color, to height, to health, and even our longevity. Genetics 101 breaks down the science...
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Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump

Dan Bongino - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

The comprehensive story of how the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton campaign, and foreign entities tried to sabotage the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.Everyone has an opinion about whether or not Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016....
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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange

Jon Butterworth - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: a richly conjured world, in map and metaphor, of particle physicsAtom Land brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking readers on a guided journey through the subatomic...
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive...
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Wild Moms: Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom

Carin Bondar - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating and entertaining tour of motherhood in the animal kingdom that reveals a new perspective on the mother/child relationship. Being a mom is a tough job -- but imagine doing it in the jungle or out on the safari, faced by the ravages of the elements, a scarcity of resources and the threat...
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The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority

Robert P. Crease - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority.When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact Why have scientific facts become easy to deny And what can we do about it In The Workshop and the World, philosopher...
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

Michio Kaku - Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossiblefrom death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaksrevealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions,...
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World

Brian Clegg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,...
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Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen

Jonathan D. Cohen - Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover

Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe...
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Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs

MARK LYNAS - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the world--from...
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The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth

Elizabeth Tasker - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

Twenty years ago, the search for planets--and life--outside the solar system was a job restricted to science fiction writers. It is now one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy, with thousands of these "exoplanets" discovered so far. The detection of these worlds...
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives

Mark Miodownik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: the New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters show us the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff."We all know that without water we couldn't...
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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

Adam Becker - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universeEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed...
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The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day

JAMES KAKALIOS - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital "clouds" to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles. Most of us are clueless...
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