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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
by Jane Brox
Hardcover: Jul 2010
Paperback: 7 Jul 2011
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| Brilliant offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history--from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. |
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Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
by Judy Pasternak
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 5 Jul 2011
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| Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today, weaving the personal and the political into a tale of betrayal, of willful negligence, and, ultimately, of reckoning. |
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The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
by Rob Dunn
Hardcover: 21 Jun 2011
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| A biologist shows the influence of wild species on our well-being and the world and how nature still clings to us - and always will. |
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
by Vanessa Woods
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: 7 Jun 2011
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| A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes - who teach her a new truth about love and belonging. |
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
by Susan Casey
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 31 May 2011
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| From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. |
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The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
by Hannah Nordhaus
Paperback: 24 May 2011
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| The honey bee is a willing conscript, a working wonder, an unseen and crucial link in America's agricultural industry. But never before has its survival been so unclear - and the future of our food supply so acutely challenged. |
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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
Hardcover: Dec 2009
Paperback: 26 Apr 2011
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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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Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
by Barry Werth
Hardcover: Jan 2009
Paperback: 1 Apr 2011
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| In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin’s controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War. |
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