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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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How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
Stanislas Dehaene - Viking Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate themThe human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled... |
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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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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker - Doubleday Format: Hardcover
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with... |
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Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth
Gordon L. Dillow - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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Combining history, pop science, and in-depth reporting, a fascinating account of asteroids that hit Earth long ago, and those streaming toward us now, as well as how we are preparing against asteroid-caused catastrophe.One of these days, warns Gordon Dillow, the Earth will be hit by a comet... |
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The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
Andrew Blum - Ecco Format: Paperback
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From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet
The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. Its a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones,... |
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Voices from the Ape House
Beth Armstrong - Trillium Format: Paperback
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Exploring the history humans share with gorillas, Voices from the Ape House offers a behind-the-scenes look at the complicated social lives of western lowland gorillas through the eyes of a devoted zookeeper. The memoir traces Beth Armstrong's love and fascination for animals, from... |
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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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In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration
Shane O'Mara - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A hymn to walking, the mechanical magic at the core of our humanity.In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill. From walking's... |
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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Hope Jahren - Vintage Format: Paperback
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"Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." - Nature "A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brilliantly sardonic and conversational style."... |
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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Steven Strogatz - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus - how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better. Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled... |
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DNA Demystified: Unravelling the Double Helix
Alan McHughen - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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"For all those who fear they cannot understand the science of DNA -- they will soon find that they can and it's fascinating." -- Matt Ridley, author of Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters DNA, once the exclusive domain of scientists in research labs, is now the darling... |
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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 Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
Christiana Figueres - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac--the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement--tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity.In The Future We Choose,... |
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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 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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Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
Matt Parker - Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover
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An international bestsellerThe book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?" "Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some... |
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake - Random House Format: Hardcover
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A mind-bending journey into the hidden world of fungi that will change your understanding of life on earth "A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book . . . I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world--the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom." - Robert... |
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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and - possibly - even murder. David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time,... |
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
Ruth Kassinger - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due." - Elizabeth Kolbert Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would... |
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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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SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
Jonathan Waldman - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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A true story of innovation, centered on a scrappy team of engineers - far from the Silicon Valley limelight - and their quest to achieve a surprisingly difficult technological feat: building a robot that can lay bricks.Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves,... |
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The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More
Dr. Daniel G. Amen - Tyndale Momentum Format: Hardcover
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New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD and more.Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn't much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely... |
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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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Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology
Michael J. Benton - Thames & Hudson Format: Paperback
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Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted. We can now work out the color of dinosaurs, the force of their bite, their... |
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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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Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action
Ray Dorsey - PUBLICAFFAIRS Format: Hardcover
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Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of disability. The fastest growing of these is Parkinson's: the number of people with Parkinson's doubled to over 6 million over the last 25 years and is projected to double again by 2040. Harmful pesticides known to cause Parkinson's proliferate,... |
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The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
Andrew Blum - Ecco Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour through the global network that predicts our weather, the people behind it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planetThe weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It's a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones,... |
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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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The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
Matthew Cobb - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why -- despite technological advances -- the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery. For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing... |
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Galaxies: Inside the Universe's Star Cities
David J. Eicher - Clarkson Potter Format: Hardcover
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Tour the incredible scope of the cosmos as we know it with the editor in chief of Astronomy, featuring jaw-dropping illustrations and full-color photography from the magazine's archives, much of it never before published. "The natural history of the galaxies is majestic and deserves... |
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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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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence,... |
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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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The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants
Jennifer Jewell - Timber Press Format: Hardcover
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"An informative and celebratory resource." - BOOKLIST In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell - host of public radio's award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place - introduces 75 inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include... |
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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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Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear
Eva Holland - EXPERIMENT Format: Hardcover
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Frozen in terror during a mountain descent, award-winning journalist Eva Holland reaches her breaking point. Since childhood, shes been gripped by two debilitating phobias: fear of losing her mother, and fear of heights. The worst has already happened: Evas mother died suddenly and unexpectedly... |
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor - Riverhead Books Format: Book
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"Fascinating exploration of the history and science around the mechanics of breathing, how it affects our health, and what a large number of us in modern times are doing completely wrong."
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Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food
Chase Purdy - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring lab-grown meat to the world.The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global animal agriculture is responsible... |
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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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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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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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How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
Adam Rutherford - EXPERIMENT Format: Hardcover
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The science of race is constantly changing, and you need to change with it if you want to think and talk about race in an enlightened, sensitive, scientifically supported way. Author Adam Rutherford takes us on a tour of the common misconceptions and malicious falsehoods we unwittingly... |
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Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
Alastair Gee - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century.On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire laid waste to almost the entire town of Paradise, California, a community of 27,000 people. At least 85 died, images of the fire transfixed viewers across the world, and the resulting... |
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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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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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Spiders of the World: A Natural History
Norman I. Platnick - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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A stunningly illustrated natural history of spidersSpiders are among the most versatile creatures on the planet, inhabiting six of the seven continents and thriving in environments ranging from deserts and rain forests to Arctic tundra and cities. Spiders of the World is a captivating look... |
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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 Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
Donna Jackson Nakazawa - Ballantine Books Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia - an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday lives. "The rarest of books: a combination of page-turning discovery and remarkably... |
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Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change Hit the West
Daniel Mathews - COUNTERPOINT PR Format: Hardcove
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A troubling story of the devastating ripple effects of climate change told through forest ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, fire bosses, and activists Climate change manifests in many ways across America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western... |
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Golf's Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science
Brett Cyrgalis - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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Just as Michael Lewis's Moneyball captured baseball at a technological turning point, Brett Cyrgalis's Golf's Holy War takes us inside golf's clash between its beloved artistic tradition and its analytic future. The world of golf is at a crossroads. As technological innovations... |
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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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Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
Charles Murray - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual... |
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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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The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
Arthur Firstenberg Format: Paperback
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Electricity has shaped the modern world. But how has it affected our health and environment?
Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is 'safe' for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling... |
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The Fully Charged Guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy
Robert Llewellyn - Unbound Format: Hardcover
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Did you know that the carbon impact of producing ten cheeseburgers is the same as one passenger travelling 167 miles on a London bus? Or that high levels of air pollution lead to over 40,000 premature deaths and 6 million sick days each year?But maybe the future isn't as bleak as it seems.... |
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The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World
Gerasimo, Pilar - NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS
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Want to be a healthy, happy person in an unhealthy world? Get ready to start breaking some rules. Pilar Gerasimo, founding editor of Experience Life magazine, argues that in an unhealthy society like ours, being a healthy person requires choices and patterns so unconventional, they amount... |
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Galileo: And the Science Deniers
Mario Livio - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through the next chapter... |
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Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
Mark Kurlansky - Patagonia Format: Hardcover
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In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling... |
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Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age
Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig - Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Paperback
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Your job is at riskif not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of a Smart Machine Age led by artificial intelligence that will be as transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. Smart machines will take over millions of jobs in manufacturing, office work,... |
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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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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Mark W. Moffett - Head of Zeus Format: Paperback
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In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology and anthropology to explain the social adaptations that bind societies. He explores how the tension between identity and anonymity defines how societies develop, function, and fail. In the vein... |
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Awakening in the Dream: Contact with the Divine
Wilcock, David - DUTTON BOOKS Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author David Wilcock's latest captivating work of nonfiction, exploring new hidden truths about extraterrestrials, dreams, sacred science, channeling your Higher Self, and Ascension.
What happens when a UFO researcher suddenly comes into telepathic contact... |
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Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper
Andrew Cote - Ballantine Books Format: Hardcover
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A year in the life of New York City's premier beekeeper, who charmingly chronicles his adventures and the quirky personalities he encounters while spreading his infinite knowledge of and passion for the remarkable honey bee. Considered an "industry legend" by The New York... |
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War
Simon Parkin - Sceptre Format: Paperback
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By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised by Captain Gilbert Roberts and a group of ten Wrens (members of the Women's Royal Naval Service) assigned to his team in an attempt to reveal... |
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