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Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Joe Cuhaj - Prometheus
Format: Hardcover
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Nothing captivates the human imagination like the vast unknowns of space. Ancient petroglyphs present renderings of the heavens, proof that we have been gazing up at the stars with wonder for thousands of years. Since then, mankind has systematically expanded our cosmic possibilities. What... |
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The Irishman
Charles Brandt - Steerforth
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award nominee Harvey Keitel, and written by Academy Award winner Steven Zaillian. The Irishman "gives new meaning... |
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How We Age: The Science of Longevity
Coleen T. Murphy - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How recent breakthroughs in longevity research offer clues about human aging. All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Murphy, a leading... |
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Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future
Stephen Porder - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share. It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used... |
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VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine
Brennan Spiegel
Format: Hardcover
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Brennan Spiegel has spent years studying the medical power of the mind, and in VRx he reveals a revolutionary new kind of care: virtual medicine. It offers the possibility of treating illnesses without solely relying on intrusive surgeries or addictive opioids.Virtual medicine works by convincing... |
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OMFG, BEES!: Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why
Matt Kracht - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback
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Guess what: Bees are incredible. If you don't think so, you're wrong; but you're also in luck! Extreme bee enthusiast and bestselling author Matt Kracht is here to set the record straight with this helpful guidebook to all things bees.. Are you ready for the ultimate bee book?... |
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Math Without Numbers
Milo Beckman - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math - topology, analysis, and algebra - which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional... |
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Mystical Mushrooms: Discover the Magic & Folklore of Fantastic Fungi
Aurora Kane - Rock Point
Format: Hardcover
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Mystical Mushrooms defines the beauty of mushrooms by focusing on their magical connections and symbolic meanings through folkloric tales and superstitions throughout the world.. Go for a walk in the woods on any given summer day and you may find yourself surrounded in fungi galore as they... |
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