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Neil Shubin Reviews Insectopedia
Insectopedia:
Insectopedia is one of the most remarkable books I have read in a long time. Like its subjec...
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One of the worldÔÇÖs most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In **A Walk in the Woods**, Bill Bryson trekked the Ap...
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"Erudite, engaging and highly original, journalist Pollan's fascinating account of four everyday plants and their coevolution with human society challenges traditional views about humans and nature. Using the histories of apples, tulips, potatoes ...
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Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, d...
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"EDITORIAL REVIEW: Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart ...
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A Letter from Author Mike Brown
My daughter Lilah, now five years old, is mad at me for killing Pluto. When I began a project 13 years ago to chart the slowly-moving objects of the distant out...
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From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our TimeComes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas****Stephen HawkingÔÇÖs worldwide bestseller, **A Brief History of Time***,* remains one of the landmark volumes in scient...
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SUMMARY: A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realiza...
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"SUMMARY: From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers. InAvo...
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Two years ago, British fashion designer Anna Hindmarch produced the must-have accessory of the season: a bleached, organic cotton tote manufactured in fair-wage factories, subsidized with carbon offsets and emblazone...
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"SUMMARY: Fifteen years after his #1 New York Times bestseller, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra revisits ""the forgotten miracle""ÔÇôthe body's infinite capacity for change and renewal. You cannot take advantage of this miracle, Chop...
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SUMMARY: From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer PrizeÔÇöwinning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed historyÔÇôand of the vision...
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: In 1922, the British archaeologist Henry Carter opened King TutankhamunÔÇÖs tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that gave Carter international...
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SUMMARY: Ronald C. White, Jr., is the author of two bestselling books on Abraham Lincoln: The Eloquent President and LincolnÔÇÖs Greatest Speech, a New York Times Notable Book. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at ...
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"SUMMARY: The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of ""Founding Brothers"" and ""His Excellency ""brings America's preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the r...
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Starred Review. Washington Post reporter Dobbs (_Saboteurs_) is a master at telling stories as they unfold and from a variety of perspectives. In this re-examination of the 1963 Bay of Pigs face-off betw...
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"SUMMARY: Narrative history at its most compelling, ""After the Prophet"" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor had begun. Pitt...
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*Starred Review* Morris completes his fully detailed, correlatively dynamic triptych of the restless, energetic, on-the-move first President Roosevelt, following The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), the title self-explanatory in te...
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This scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century creation, indeed a deliberate reformation and taming of ...
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Praise for the rise of **Theodore Roosevelt**
?Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it c...
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Military historian O'Connell (_Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression_) has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage. In dramatic and comprehens...
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureÔÇöthe most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave to the...
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ÔÇ£Fascinating . . . One of the finest works of history written . . . A splendid and glittering performance.ÔÇØ
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As Green thoroughly documents, the bloody Haymarket riot of May 4, 1886, changed the history of American labor and created a panic among Americans about (often foreign-born) ""radicals and reformers"" and union acti...
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The scope of Philip Bobbitt's *The Shield of Achilles* is breathtaking: the interplay, over the last six centuries, among war, jurisprudence, and the reshaping of countries (""states,"" in Bobbitt's vocabulary). Bobbitt ...
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: In AD 476 the Roman Empire fellÔÇôor rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would...
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Prolific royal biographer Fraser (_Marie Antoinette_) has assiduously researched her measured yet engrossing study, shedding welcome light on the galaxy of influential women who orbited the dazzling Sun King. The...
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*Starred Review* The title, taken from GibbonÔÇÖs immortal work on imperial Rome, was chosen since British imperialists consciously compared their empire to the Roman imperium. Despite the┬átitle, this is no dreary tale of impe...
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SUMMARY: For the first time in decades, here, in a single volume, is a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer reveals the flesh-and-bone reality...
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Powers (The Man Who Kept the Secrets) details the rise and untimely fall of the Lakota's most famous warrior in this richly detailed, sensitive, and evenhanded portrayal. Little known before his stunning surprise vic...
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