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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
Clive Thompson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hello, world.Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant... |
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My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors
Lindsay McCrae - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
Ben Orlin - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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The next book from Ben Orlin, the popular math blogger and author of the underground bestseller Math With Bad Drawings. Change Is The Only Constant is an engaging and eloquent exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's sly humor and wonderfully... |
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Giving: Purpose Is the New Currency
Alexandre Mars - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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Dubbed "the little French Bill Gates" in his native country, Alexandre Mars quit the startups that made him rich, transforming himself from entrepreneur to philanthropist. Determined to become a responsible and effective giver, Mars traveled around the world, asking two very simple... |
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How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of our Addiction to Stories
Alex Rosenberg - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history... |
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Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century
Professor Bruce Usher - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable energy will further... |
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
SABINE HOSSENFELDER - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories... |
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In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
Bill Streever - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling exploration of the science and history of the deep sea.Full of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaimed biologist and deep sea diver Bill Streever shows us the incredible adventures happening... |
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Tom Phillips - Hanover Square Press
Format: Paperback
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Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're true winners. But it hasn't always been smooth sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to truly f*ck things... |
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Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Annaka Harris - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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2020 Audie Finalist As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience. What is consciousness? How does... |
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
Ian Urbina - Vintage
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the worlds oceans: too big to police, and under... |
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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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The Seine: The River that Made Paris
Elaine Sciolino - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best-selling author Elaine Sciolino.Elaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote... |
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Hungover: The Morning After and One Man’s Quest for the Cure
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall - Tantor Audio
Format: Paperback
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Weve all been there. One minute youre fast asleep, and in the next, youre tumbling from dreams of deserts and demons into semi-consciousness, mouth full of sand, head throbbing. Youre hungover. Courageous journalist Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall has gone to the front lines of humanitys age-old... |
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The Secret Life of Cows
Rosamund Young - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animalsAt her famous Kite's Nest Farm in Worcestershire, England, the cows (as well as sheep, hens, and pigs) all roam... |
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Fewer, Richer, Greener: Prospects for Humanity in an Age of Abundance
Siegel, Laurence B. - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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How the world has become much better and why optimism is abundantly justified Why do so many people fear the future? Is their concern justified, or can we look forward to greater wealth and continued improvement in the way we live? Our world seems to be experiencing stagnant economic... |
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Margaret O'Mara - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest... |
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Judith Grisel - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, this is the authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction that we've been waiting for: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories combine to reveal how addiction happens and what can be done... |
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That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
Sunita Puri - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"Spiritually grounded, poetic, and brilliant . . . Puri has claimed her place in the ranks of illustrious physician-writers." --Katy Butler, author of Knocking on Heaven's DoorAs the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf... |
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The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
Blaine T. Bettinger - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback
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Discover the answers to your family history mysteries using the most-cutting edge tool available to genealogists. This plain-English guide, newly revised and expanded, is a one-stop resource on genetic genealogy for family historians. Inside, you'll learn what DNA tests are available, with... |
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Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink
Seth M. Siegel - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs... |
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
R D E MacPhee - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth.Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller -- including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more -- roamed the earth. These... |
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A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction
Michael J. Ryan - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansDarwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant... |
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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
John Brockman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means... |
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women... |
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal) , Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections... |
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Pam Houston - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons,... |
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Shattered Dreams: The Lost and Canceled Space Missions
Colin Burgess - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names... |
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Europe: A Natural History
Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe unlike any before: an ecological account of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it. In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist... |
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Timothy C. Winegard - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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**The instant New York Times bestseller.***An international bestseller.*"Hugely impressive, a major work." - NPRA pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia,... |
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Thomas Hager - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager... |
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Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side. Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible... |
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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
Alberto Cairo - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A leading data visualization expert explores the negative -- and positive -- influences that charts have on our perception of truth.We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics,... |
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Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
Jane Brox - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the "dazzling epic"* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind - in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane... |
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Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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A funny, insightful, and self-contained guide to Einstein's relativity theory and classical field theories--including electromagnetismPhysicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's... |
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Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
Sunil S. Amrith - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its watersAsia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers,... |
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Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
Tatiana Schlossberg - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From former New York Times Science writer Tatiana Schlossberg comes Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, a fascinating and unexpectedly entertaining look at the way climate change and environmental pollution are intimately involved in our everyday... |
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The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature
Nick Haddad - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinctionMost of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what about the Fender's Blue? Or the St. Francis' Satyr?... |
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Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Eric Topol - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their... |
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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
Azra Raza - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience of When Breath Becomes Air, a world-class oncologist examines the current state of cancer and its devastating impact on the individuals it affects -- including herself.We have... |
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
Will Hunt - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape and our relationship with the worlds beneath our feet--for fans of quirky, obsessive narrative histories, such as Confederates in the Attic and How Things Work.Will Hunt is an urban... |
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Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
Chris Naunton - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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An exciting archeological exploration of ancient Egypt that examines the potential for discovering the remaining "lost" tombs of the pharaohs. Tombs, mummies, and funerary items make up a significant portion of the archeological remains that survive ancient Egypt and have come... |
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardJim Simons... |
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Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
Natalie Starkey - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious--comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually hosted the Sun and its planets. Locked within each of these extra-terrestrial objects... |
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
Sarah Parcak - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of Archaeological Institute of Americas Felicia A. Holton Book Award * Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science * An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019 * A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2019 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 * A Science News Best Book... |
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Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
Kimberly K. Arcand - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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A lavish coffee-table book featuring spectacular images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-Ray telescope ever builtTake a journey through the cosmos with Light from the Void, a stunning collection of photographs from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's two decades... |
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
Julia Shaw - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique... |
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The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
Alex Dehgan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife-and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape.Postwar Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty.... |
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
GASTON DORREN - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it -- only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore... |
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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
David Kessler - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler - an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kbler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving - journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.In 1969, Elisabeth Kbler Ross first identified the stages... |
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The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
Guy Leschziner - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night's rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating exploration of the symptoms and syndromes behind sleep disorders.For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients,... |
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The Story of Technology: How We Got Here and What the Future Holds
Daniel M. Gerstein - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A leading technology expert examines ways to manage the rapid proliferation of technology and come to grips with its pervasive influence.Technology--always a key driver of historical change--is transforming society as never before and at a far more rapid pace. This book takes the reader... |
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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
PETER WOHLLEBEN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.In... |
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She has her mother's laugh : what heredity is, is not, and may become
Carl Zimmer - Dutton
Format: eBook
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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times She Has Her Mother's Laugh But, Zimmer writes, "Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of our many ancestors. Each piece has its own ancestry, traveling a different path back through human history.... |
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Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures
David Ewing Duncan - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futures - Incredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex Bots - Grounded in real technologies and possibilities and inspired by our imagination. What robot and AI systems... |
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Paul Morland - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new history of the past 200 years, recast as a story of population: how irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The advance and subsequent retreat of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower;... |
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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Mary Beth Pfeiffer - Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia,... |
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Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
Pooja K. Agarwal - Jossey-Bass
Format: Hardcover
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Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D.,... |
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Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator
Gregory B. Jaczko - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking expos from the most powerful insider in nuclear regulation about how the nuclear energy industry endangers our lives - and why Congress does nothing to stop it.Greg Jaczko never planned things to turn out this way. A Birkenstocks-wearing physics PhD, he had never heard of the Nuclear... |
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The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog
Rick McIntyre - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing true story of one of the first wolves to roam Yellowstone in more than 60 years.Book One in The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone: A Trilogy[Rick McIntyre] is first and foremost a storyteller whose encyclopedic knowledge of Yellowstone's wolf reintroduction project is unparalleled."... |
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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we - and the planet we inhabit - could not survive without them.Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere - deep inside caves, 18,000 feet high in the Himalayas, inside computers,... |
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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange
Jon Butterworth - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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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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Antarctica's Lost Aviator: The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth
Jeff Maynard - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers.By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth... |
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Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration
Rod Pyle - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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A NASA insider tells the exciting story of robotic space missions to explore the solar system.Exploring the planets has been a goal of America's space program since the dawn of the space race. This insider's perspective examines incredible missions of robotic spacecraft to every corner... |
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The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource
Obi Kaufmann - Heyday
Format: Hardcover
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Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California's water infrastructure... |
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Gut Reactions: The Science of Weight Gain and Loss
Simon Quellen Field - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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How much do you really know about how the human body works, and how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we're left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity... |
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The Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination
Matthew Carr - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping historical travelogue of the contentious border of France and Spain, in the great tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Jan Morris With the Catalonia crisis making international headlines, the unique cultural and geographic region bordering Spain and France has once again moved to the center... |
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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
Darrell Bricker - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon decline - and that immigration will be the key to prospering in this new social, political, and economic landscape For half a century, statisticians,... |
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Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
Tucker Malarkey - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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"A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr's mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read." - Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid... |
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