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Snow: A History of the Worlds Most Fascinating Flake
Anthony R. Wood - Prometheus
Format: Hardcover
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The complete story of snow, this is the first book to fully examine snow as a historical, cultural, and scientific phenomenon.From "Winter Wonderland" to "Snowmageddon," weve had a long, love-hate relationship with snow. This entertaining look at snow in all its delightful... |
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Henry Gee - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place -- in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched... |
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The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
Jack Norton - Verso
Format: Paperback
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A VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAIL
Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. While the growing... |
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Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More
Darren Naish - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Dive into prehistoric waters and discover extraordinary sea monsters who reigned the ocean for 150 million years. Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More examines the anatomy, behavior, diversity, lifestyle, and evolutionary rise of creatures who conquered the seas... |
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Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
Sara Dykman - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover
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Outdoor educator and field researcher Sara Dykman decided to do something no one had ever done before - pedal along with monarch butterflies over the entire length of their 10,201-mile migratory journey. She did it alone, on a hand-built bicycle, through three countries. In Bicycling... |
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The Health of Nations: The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases
Karen Bartlett - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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"Anyone interested in public health and its interface with politics will find both hope and frustration here. A fascinating look at epidemiology and the challenges that public health workers face." -- Library JournalWhat would a world without disease look like? With the victory... |
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Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
Nina Nesseth - ?Tor Nightfire
Format: Hardcover
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Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more.Do you like scary movies?Have you ever wondered why?Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why.In Nightmare Fuel, Nesseth explores... |
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Those Were the Days: Why All in the Family Still Matters
Jim Cullen - Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback
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Between 1971 and 1979, All in the Family was more than just a wildly popular television sitcom that routinely drew 50 million viewers weekly. It was also a touchstone of American life, so much so that the living room chairs of the two main characters have spent the last 40 years on display... |
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