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Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres
Alison Pouliot - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet's power and fragility. What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres, ecologist Alison Pouliot ensures that... |
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Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention
Kathryn D. Sullivan - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
EMMA BYRNE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An irreverent and impeccably researched defense of our dirtiest words.We're often told that swearing is outrageous or even offensive, that it's a sign of a stunted vocabulary or a limited intellect. Dictionaries have traditionally omitted it and parents forbid it. But the latest research... |
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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Mary Bray Pipher - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller * Los Angeles Times Bestseller * Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they... |
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Billion Dollar Dimebag: An Insider's Account of America's Legalish Cannabis Industry
Jackson D. Tilley - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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Experience the Green Rush through the eyes of Jackson D. Tilley - the sober twenty-something who climbed the ladder at a small vape company while it grew into the nation's leading cannabis distributor."At once funny, enlightening, and timely, Tilley's is a deftly-executed debut."... |
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
Amy Shira Teitel - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Spaceflight historian and creator of YouTube's "Vintage Space" Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.A book that will appeal to readers of Fly Girls and The Astronaut Wives' Club,... |
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
Vincent Bevins - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A meticulous investigation into the recent uprisings that aimed to restructure societies around the world, but too often fell shortFrom 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. But we are not living in a world that is more just and democratic... |
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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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