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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Elizabeth Kolbert - Crown
Format: Hardcover

That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under...
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Wrong Lanes Have Right Turns: A Pardoned Man's Escape from the School-to-Prison Pipeline and What We Can Do to Dismantle It

Michael Phillips - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover


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Hip-Hop Architecture

Sekou Cooke - Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Format: Hardcover

"This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectualized the profession, and ignored all contemporary Black theory within the discipline. You have made architecture a symbol of exclusion,...
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Game Boy Modding

Farrell, Greg - NO STARCH PR


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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

One of Bookpage's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) , Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.What's to be done about...
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Scanned : why vaccine passports and digital IDs will mean the end of privacy and personal freedom

Nick Corbishley - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback

Imagine being physically denied access to your office, business, or livelihood. Imagine being refused entry to a grocery store or being told who you can or cannot sit with at a restaurant. Imagine being barred from a hospital room when you or your family member needs critical care. Unthinkable?...
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Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love

Kevin Goetz - Tiller Press
Format: Hardcover

Audience-ology takes you to one of the most unknown places in Hollywood - a place where famous directors are reduced to tears and multi-millionaire actors to fits of rage. A place where dreams are made and fortunes are lost. This book is the chronicle of how real people have written and rewritten...
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Transforming Space Over Time: Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadway's Legendary Directors

Beowulf Boritt - Applause
Format: Hardcover

Transforming Space over Time tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off Broadway. Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt begins with the moment he was offered each job and takes readers through the conceptual development of a set, the challenges of its physical...
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Supreme Actresses: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Hollywood

Marcellas Reynolds - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Supreme Models comes the first-ever art book dedicated to celebrating Black actresses and exploring their experiences in acting. Through stunning photographs, personal interviews, short biographies, and career milestones, Supreme Actresses chronicles the most influential...
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15-Minute Mandarin Chinese: Learn in Just 12 Weeks (DK 15-Minute Lanaguge Learning)

DK - DK
Format: Paperback

Learn Mandarin Chinese in just 15 minutes a day with this revolutionary language learning system, now with an accompanying free app that is available in the App Store and Google Play.Practicing your language skills is quick, easy, and fun with 15-Minute Mandarin. There's no homework....
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