$28.00
ISBN: 9780525537090
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 3rd, 2019
In What If?, Randall Munroe gathered absurd questions and answered them at the greatest heights that serious scientific rigor would allow. Now, in How To, he flips the formula and takes serious real-world tasks and ponders the most absurd (and yet still scientifically rigorous) processes to complete them. Many solutions cross-reference each other ("How to Fill a Pool" tells you that first you'll need an empty pool to fill and directs you to "How to Dig a Hole"), and a few reference What If?, to the point of one even directing you to a web address for one that wasn't in the print edition. This makes for delightful reading and flipping back and forth - the closest I've come to falling down a Wikipedia hole in print media in a long time. I'd expect nothing less from Munroe. ~ Reviewed by Andrew Bugenis
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316417662
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Published: Hachette Books - August 13th, 2019
Opium and its many offspring, including morphine, heroin, and chemically created concoctions like OxyContin, have seduced, enchanted, enthralled, and destroyed millions. The authors pull opium up by its roots, revealing that its centuries-long potency, allure, and potential for healing have repeatedly been dwarfed by its addictive power of destruction. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$27.00
ISBN: 9781451642292
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - July 9th, 2019
A compelling expose that follows the story of three women whose lives were profoundly influenced by the male relationships they had in their formative years. Their honesty in revealing these often painful and deeply personal stories shows how their futures were shaped and how they live now. ~ Reviewed by Whitney Kaaz
$28.00
ISBN: 9781594634758
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 13th, 2019
Anthropologist, Maggie Paxson is haunted by war and the people who are devastated by it. Having worked all over the world she has borne witness to just about every form of brutality & heartbreaking tenderness. On the Plateau, a remote place (S.E.France) of reserved, hard lived communities, she finds a history of being a safe haven for refugees; in the distant past, during WWII and right now. Through the story Daniel Trocme (one Israel's " Righteous Among Nations" ) & his "crickets" - children from all over Europe that he fought so quietly but ferociously to protect. Maggie discovers wondrous links to today's refugees (stories of hard won survival and finds a link to her own life- and it raises many questions. This book deserves to be on the shelf next to Frankel's Man's Search for Meaning, Eger's The Choice & Wiesel's Trilogy. I could not put this book down! ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan
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ISBN: 9781615195312
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Published: The Experiment - March 19th, 2019
Humans: the most intelligent, creative species to ever walk the planet. How did that happen? In delightful, often droll prose, Rutherford charts our staggered, still incomplete evolution. Along the way he discovers that rats, dolphins, chimps, crows, and a host of other animals share some savory or unsavory human characteristics, and we, for all our wonderful sophistication, share some of theirs. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$50.00
ISBN: 9781419710070
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - October 21st, 2014
Simply stunning. Spineless features large, high-quality photos of invertebrate marine life. From starfish to jellyfish, sea snails to squid, Middleton’s photography is breathtakingly vibrant, with descriptive insights into each animal’s world and behavior. Not your average coffee table book, this one will fascinate for hours at a time. ~ Reviewed by Joe Michon-Huneau
