Knopf Publishing Group, 2018. Hardcover.
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From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people.....
Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover.
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano has said that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. Pedigree, his memoir, is the theme.In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up.....
University of Washington Press, 2009. Hardcover.
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David Thompson's Travels is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America. The tale spans the years 1784 to.....
Algonquin Books, 2014. Hardcover.
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"A remarkable book. Reading about the birds of Pandemonium will make you laugh and cry; it will make you see more clearly the need to take care of our planet; and it will confirm that one person with a......
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. Hardcover.
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Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, noise--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball.....
Viking, 2018. Hardcover.
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"A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."-NatureA timely, thrilling account of a man who, as an explorer, dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon--and, as an American.....
Yale University Press, 2018. Hardcover.
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The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh centuryThe magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest.....
Yale University Press, 2017. Hardcover.
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A captivating tour of the bookshelves of ten leading artists, exploring the intricate connections between reading, artistic practice, and identity Taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin's seminal 1931 essay, the Unpacking My Library series charts a spirited exploration.....
Ecco Press, 2017. Hardcover.
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and.....
Modern Library, 2015. Paperback.
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This captivating anthology gathers historic New Yorker pieces from a decade of trauma and upheaval--as well as the years when The New Yorker came of age, with pieces by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Joseph Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, and George.....
Dey Street Books, 2017. Hardcover.
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"The coolest class on campus" - The New York Times
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's.....
Scribner Book Company, 2018. Hardcover.
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From Colm Tóibín, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men--William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus.....
Yale University Press, 2014. Paperback.
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In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. His interviewees included well-known figures such as Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin, as well as lesser-known.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Hardcover.
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The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient
[An] engrossing biographical memoir. This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds, observing his post-encephalitic patients . . . exulting over horseshoe crabs.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016. Hardcover.
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In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that.....
Scribner Book Company, 2019. Hardcover.
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"Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." --Stephen Greenblatt"A captivating adventure...For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page...Magnificent." --The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Best.....
Harper, 2015. Hardcover.
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One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the.....
William Morrow & Company, 2019. Hardcover.
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The triumphant true story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who crossed the Pacific to shock America at the 1908 world rodeo championships
Oregon Book Award winner * An NPR Best Book of the Year * Pacific Northwest.....
