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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Explaining what William
McNeill called The Rise of
the West has become the
central problem in the study
of global history. In Guns,
Germs, and Steel Jared
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The dust storms that
terrorized the High Plains
in the darkest years of the
Depression were like nothing
ever seen before or since.
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
In this groundbreaking
union of art and science,
rocker-turned-neuroscientist
Daniel J. Levitin explores
the connection between
music—its performance,
... > full story
Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
How do the experts solve
difficult problems in
software development? In
this unique and insightful
book, leading computer
... > full story
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (Eastern)
For the untrained observer, it can be quite a challenge to sort out the many trees that make up a stand of older forest in, say, New England or the Ozarks. This well-illustrated guidebook, covering ... > read more -
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a “guided twirligig through the scientific canon.” She draws on ... > read more -
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
"Climate change is the ignored player on the historical stage," writes archeologist Brian Fagan. But it shouldn't be, not if we know what's good for us. We can't judge what future climate change will ... > read more -
Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your ... > read more -
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fifth Edition (National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America)
Birding is the fastest growing wildlife-related activity in the U.S., and even conservative estimates put the current number of U.S. birders at 50 million. According to the New York Times, some ... > read more -
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to ... > read more -
Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do: Revised and Updated Edition
This definitive guide, revised and updated with over 25% new material, empowers cancer patients and their loved ones to move beyond their disease. Greg Anderson, a cancer survivor, has designed this ... > read more -
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ... > read more -
The House of the Scorpion
Fields of white opium poppies stretch away over the hills, and uniformed workers bend over the rows, harvesting the juice. This is the empire of Matteo Alacran, a feudal drug lord in the country of ... > read more -
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley, a professor at Tulane University, lived through the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with his fellow New Orleans residents, and now in The Great Deluge he has ... > read more
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