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The World Without Us
A penetrating, page-turning
tour of a post-human Earth
In The World Without Us,
Alan Weisman offers an
utterly original approach to
questions of
humanity’s impact on
the planet: he asks us to
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"Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
Some fifty years ago, while
a cub reporter, Jay Barbree
caught space fever the night
that Sputnik passed over
Georgia. He moved to the
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The Loved Dog: The Playful, Nonaggressive Way to Teach Your Dog Good Behavior
Every dog owner must make a
choice: Do you want a
fearful and submissive pet,
or do you want a happy,
joyful, and well-mannered
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The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
Science has recently begun
to prove what ancient myth
and religion have always
espoused: There may be such
a thing as a life force.
Lynne McTaggart,
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Dark Mission: The Secret History of Nasa
For most Americans, the word NASA suggests a squeaky-clean image of technological infallibility. Yet the truth is that NASA was born in a lie, and has concealed the truths about its occult origins. ... > read more -
The New Way Things Work
"Is it a fact--or have I dreamt it--that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?" If you, like Nathaniel ... > read more -
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and ... > read more -
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of ... > read more -
The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the ... > read more -
Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of ... > read more -
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. ... > read more -
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
I don't know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe science will have something to say about that. But I do ... > read more -
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales."To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, ... > read more -
Rocket Boys
Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that ... > read more
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