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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca
Skloot
Hardcover: 2 Feb 2010
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| Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. |
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You Are Here
: A Portable History of the Universe
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Christopher
Potter
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 1 Feb 2010
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| You Are Here is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it, as seen through the lens of today's most cutting-edge scientific thinking. |
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Nothing to Envy
: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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Barbara
Demick
Hardcover: 29 Dec 2009
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| A remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens |
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The Spirit Level
: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
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Kate
Pickett
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Richard
Wilkinson
Hardcover: 22 Dec 2009
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| It is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. This groundbreaking book goes an important stage beyond either of these ideas: it demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well-off as well as the poor. |
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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Daniel
L.
Everett
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: 3 Nov 2009
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| A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. |
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Eating Animals
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Jonathan Safran
Foer
Hardcover: 2 Nov 2009
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| Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits - from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth - and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. |
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American Lightning
: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
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Howard
Blum
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 6 Oct 2009
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| Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a cant-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction. |
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The Pattern in the Carpet
: A Personal History with Jigsaws
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Margaret
Drabble
Hardcover: 16 Sep 2009
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| An original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression |
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