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The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
Peter Burke
Format: Hardcover
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From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered... |
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Magdalena: River of Dreams
Wade Davis · Knopf
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating new book from Wade Davis that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and futureTravelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade... |
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The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
Jo Marchant · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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An historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant's book can begin to heal it. For at least 20,000 years, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship... |
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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
Kerri Arsenault · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault's own family. Years after she moved away, Arsenault realized the price she paid... |
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How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
Terry Virts · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A wildly entertaining account of the rules, lessons, procedures, and experiences of space travel, How to Astronaut is a book that will appeal to anyone - male or female, young or old - with even a passing interest in space. Written by Col. Terry Virts, a former astronaut, space shuttle... |
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
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As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter... |
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The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Daniel Yergin · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The "shale revolution" in oil and gas--made possible by fracking technology, but not without controversy--has transformed the American economy, ending the "era... |
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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill Lepore · Liveright
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller These Truths.The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers,... |
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