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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
David Attenborough - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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See the world. Then make it better.I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been... |
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Movies (And Other Things)
Shea Serrano - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things) , combines the fury of a John Wick shootout, the sly brilliance of Regina George holding court at a cafeteria table, and the sheer power of a Denzel monologue, all into one. Movies... |
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The Math Behind...: Discover the Mathematics of Everyday Events
COLIN BEVERIDGE - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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An entertaining illustrated reference to the role of mathematics in everyday life. The Math Behind... is a fascinating compilation of everyday events analyzed for their probability of occurring and how those odds are determined using mathematical equations and science. The book examines... |
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Wildflowers of the Midwest: A Field Guide to Over 600 Wildflowers in the Region
Don Kurz - Falcon Guides
Format: Paperback
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America's Midwest is home to some of the most abundant and beautiful wildflowers in the country. Now, with Wildflowers of the Midwest, readers will be able to locate and identify the many gorgeous flowering species blooming in the heartland. The newest guidebook from wildflower authority... |
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
Christopher Caldwell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." - David P. Barash, The Wall Street JournalFrom the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad,... |
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come?Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps... |
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