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The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything
Adam Rutherford - W. W. Norton & Company; Abridged edition
Format: Hardcover
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The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts) .Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide... |
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On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
Abrahm Lustgarten - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating." -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth ExtinctionA vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know... |
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The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember: A Medical Mystery
Aguirre - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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How could you lose your memory overnight, and what would it mean? The day neurologist Jed Barash sees the baffling brain scan of a young patient with devastating amnesia marks the beginning of a quest to answer those questions. First detected in a cluster of stigmatized opioid overdose... |
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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
JAKE BITTLE - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of climate migration - the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.When the subject of migration that will be caused by global climate... |
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The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input
Tony Cheng - University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
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A revelatory look at how the NYPD has resisted change through strategic and selective community engagement. The past few years have seen Americans express passionate demands for police transformation. But even as discussion of no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and body cameras has exploded,... |
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Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts
Maggie Ryan Sandford - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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Interested in the origins of the species? Consider the Platypus uses pets such as dogs and cats as well as animal outliers like the axolotl and naked mole rat to wittily tackle mind-bending concepts about how evolution, biology, and genetics work. Consider the Platypus explores... |
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Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice
Aviva Chomsky - ?Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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Why social, racial, and economic justice is just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe.We are facing a climate catastrophe. A plethora of studies describe the damage we've already done, the droughts, the wildfires, the super-storms, the melting... |
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The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace
Patricia Wiltshire - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and the secrets each can reveal about the other--from a pioneer in forensic ecology and a trailblazing female scientist.From mud tracks on a quiet... |
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