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The Chemistry Book (DK Big Ideas)

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them.The Chemistry Book is packed with short, pithy explanations of some of the most historic moments in science, from the birth of atomic theory to the discovery...
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling...
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Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time

Robert Downey Jr - Blackstone Publishing Inc
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLERA Publishers Weekly Pick #1 New Release Barnes & Noble PickIn Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints--one...
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A History of Women in 101 Objects

Annabelle Hirsch - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Discover the hidden history of women - and the world - through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them.. "I adored this book!" - Olivia Colman. This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history...
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Invasive Plants: Guide to Identification and the Impacts and Control of Common North American Species

Sylvan Ramsey Kaufman - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback

An easy-to-use, wide-ranging guide to invasive plants in North America. Features full-color photos and descriptions of more than 250 alien species - both terrestrial and aquatic - that are in some cases changing the landscape to an almost unimaginable degree. Accompanying text describes...
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The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration

Jack Norton - Verso
Format: Paperback

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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Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won't Tell You

Fatimah Gilliam - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback

"Those looking to move beyond performative allyship will find this an excellent resource." - Publishers Weekly . What if there were a set of rules to educate people against race-based social faux pas that damage relationships, perpetuate racist stereotypes, and harm people of color?...
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Indian, Black and Irish (New Critical Viewpoints on Society)

James V. Fenelon - Routledge
Format: Paperback

This book traces 500 years of European-American colonization and racialized dominance, expanding our common assumptions about the ways racialization was used to build capitalism and the modern world-system.Professor Fenelon draws on personal experience and the agency of understudied Native...
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

John O'Connor - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Bigfoot...
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The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade

Jared D. Margulies - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback

An exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives it Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world's most threatened species. The fervor driving the illegal trade in succulents might...
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