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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

by Mary Roach Author

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years…

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The Family Guide to Mental Health Care: Advice on Helping Your Loved Ones

by Lloyd I. Sederer Author and Glenn Close Foreword

With 50 million new mental illness diagnoses every year, we pretty much all know someone who's affected, and for many of…

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In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration

by Shane O'Mara Author

From walking’s evolutionary origins, traced back millions of years to life forms on the ocean floor, to new findings…

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Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine

by Simon Singh Author and Edzard Ernst Author

Do old wives' tales about cures really tap into ancient wisdom, or does modern science provide the best answers to…

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Botany for Designers: A Practical Guide for Landscape Architects and Other Professionals

by Kimberly Duffy Turner Author

At last! A comprehensive guide on planting design fundamentals.  This book goes the extra mile with a deep look into…

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10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said

by Charles Wheelan Author and Peter Steiner Illustrator

A wisdom-filled book of 101 aphorisms that corrects the overly saccharine sayings usually trotted out at commencement…

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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

by Ted Genoways Author

Family farms are facing increased pressure and farmers are watching their way of life dissapear. Corporate ownership,…

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Essentials of Persuasive Public Speaking

by Sims Wyeth Author

This portable and concise guide offers a collection of short and practical techniques to help readers be more powerful…

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How to Treat People: A Nurse's Notes

by Molly Case Author

As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the…

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The Secret History of Kindness: Learning from How Dogs Learn

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson Author

A detailed exploration into the leading philosophies of dog training that teaches how kindness motivates all animals,…

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Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word

by Matthew Battles Author

Explore the profound history of writing from earliest carvings of Mesopotamia to the hypertext of multimedia today. The…

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Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition

by Elijah C. Nealy Author

As gender becomes an increasingly visible topic of national conversation, more and more transgender people are choosing…

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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

by Carol F. Karlsen Author

What circumstances and beliefs lead so many people in colonial North America during the 17th century to accuse women…

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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach Author

All your extremely scientific questions about sex (and some you definitely have never thought up) are answered by…

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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

by Caitlin Doughty Author

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care…

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The Overstory: A Novel

by Richard Powers Author

 A round of interconnected fables that drive from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of…

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The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking

by Mikael Krogerus Author

Making decisions is hard. This book provides a framework for any choice, from what to eat for lunch to how to settle and…

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The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb

by R. Crumb Author

When legendary artist R. Crumb discovered the Bible to be “a text so great and so strange that it lends itself…

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

by Cordelia Fine Author

"Men and women are just different!"  NOPE. Not according to science we aren't. This wickedly funny book lays out the…

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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

by Mary Roach Author

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. "What happens…

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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

by Thomas Lynch Author

Meditations on death by poet and small town funeral director Thomas Lynch. This unique collection of essays gently,…

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Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat

by Barry Estabrook Author

Do you eat meat (or maybe your doctor's been telling you to) but feel qualms about the environmental and animal rights…

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Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published

by Susan Rabiner Author and Alfred Fortunato Author

A helpful manual for would-be nonfiction authors. Learn to write effective non-fiction book proposals, tailor your…

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Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide

by Richard Conniff Author

The concept (and cover) may seem goofy, but this is actually a clever and well-written examination of class in the…

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Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food

by Rachel Herz Author

How is personality correlated with preference for sweet or bitter foods? What genres of music best enhance the taste of…

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Why Smile?: The Science Behind Facial Expressions

by Marianne Lafrance Author

When you choose to smile, it often has positive effects on your own mood and social interactions. But some smiles happen…

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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language

by Emma Byrne Author

Swearing has a bad reputation among parents, teachers, and other authority figures, but guess what: it's actually really…

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You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with Your Family

by Monica McGoldrick Author

A family therapist explains how the use of genograms (family trees) can bring to light a family's history of…

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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

by David Kaiser Author

In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of…

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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

by Dean Buonomano Author

The human brain, argues this neuroscientist, is a complex system that not only tells time, but creates it; it…

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