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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Rose George - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough scienceBlood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit... |
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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In his acclaimed 2016 book Other Minds, the philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus -- the closest thing to an intelligent alien on earth, as he put it. In Metazoa, Godfrey-Smith expands his inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution... |
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Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Michelle Nijhuis
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement -- told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it.In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement... |
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Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America's Death Row
Lynden Harris - Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback
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Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: "All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that's love." Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person... |
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Little, Crazy Children
James Renner - Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting work of investigative journalism, the author of True Crime Addict and host of "True Crime This Week," James Renner, explores the tragic unsolved 1990 murder of Lisa Pruett in the privileged enclave of Shaker Heights, Ohio, its troubling aftershocks, and the dark... |
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Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
SANG-HEE LEE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this captivating bestseller, Korea's first paleoanthropologist offers fresh insights into humanity's dawn and evolution.What can fossilized teeth tell us about the life expectancy of our ancient ancestors? How did farming play a problematic role in the history of human evolution? How can simple... |
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Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes
William Gurstelle - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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Your home is your castle, but could it withstand an attack by Attila and the Huns, Ragnar and the Vikings, Alexander and the Greeks, Genghis Khan and the Mongols, or Tamerlane and the Tartars? Engineer William Gurstelle, author of the bestselling Backyard Ballistics, poses this fascinating... |
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The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
Libby Copeland - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives You swab your cheek or spit into a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry... |
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