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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 29 Jan 2013
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| An extraordinary book with the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves. |
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The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
by Neil Shubin
Hardcover: 8 Jan 2013
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| From one of our finest and most popular science writers comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us? |
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
by Toby Wilkinson
Hardcover: Mar 2011
Paperback: 8 Jan 2013
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| In this landmark work, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire—three thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable characters. |
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by Jared Diamond
Hardcover: 31 Dec 2012
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| The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years - a past that has mostly vanished - and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. |
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
by Mark Binelli
Hardcover: Nov 2012
Paperback: 29 Oct 2013
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| Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, we glimpse a future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning - what might just be the first post-industrial city of our new century. |
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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
by Andrew Solomon
Hardcover: Nov 2012
Paperback: 1 Oct 2013
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| Far from the Tree is a masterpiece that will rattle our prejudices, question our policies, and inspire our understanding of the relationship between illness and identity. Above all, it will renew and deepen our gratitude for the herculean reach of parental love. |
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Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: Nov 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world. |
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
by Anne Applebaum
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 13 Aug 2013
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| In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. |
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