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Wonder Drug : The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Vanderbes, JenniferRandom House Publishing Group 2023“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keef...
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What an Owl Knows : The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Ackerman, JenniferPenguin Publishing Group 2023An instant New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book of 2023Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a...
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Your Brain on Art : How the Arts Transform Us
Magsamen, Susan; Ross, IvyRandom House Publishing Group 2023NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the ar...
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Visual Thinking : The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Grandin, TemplePenguin Publishing Group 2022INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenge...
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What If? 2 : Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Munroe, RandallPenguin Publishing Group 2022AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An NPR Best Book of 2022"The questions throughout What If? 2 are equal parts brilliant, gross, and wonderfully absurd and the answers are thor...
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The Surgeon's Daughter : A Novel
Blake, AudreySourcebooks 2022SheReads Best Historical Fiction Of Summer 2022!"This is an intense, suspenseful, and insightful read about the challenges both women and doctors faced in the 19th century...Our he...
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The Shame Machine : Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
O'Neil, CathyCrown 2022NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperparti...
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Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe
Cham, Jorge; Whiteson, DanielPenguin Publishing Group 2021"Delightful, funny, and yet rigorous and intelligent: only Jorge and Daniel can reach this exquisite balance." —Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Helgolan...
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There Is Nothing For You Here : Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Hill, FionaHarperAudio 2021 Unabridged""This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up."—Timothy Snyder, New York Times be...
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Our Biggest Experiment : An Epic History of the Climate Crisis
Bell, AliceCatapult 2021Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defini...
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The Love Hypothesis
Hazelwood, AliPenguin Publishing Group 2021The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation! As seen on THE VIEW!A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresisti...
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Dopamine Nation : Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Lembke, AnnaPenguin Publishing Group 2021INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick,as heard on Fresh Air This boo...
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Below the Edge of Darkness : A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
Widder, EdithRandom House Publishing Group 2021A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence—the language of light that helps life communicate in the darkness—and what it tells us...
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The Storm Is Upon Us : How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Rothschild, MikeMelville House 2021"I hope everyone reads this book. It has become such a crucial thing for all of us to understand." —Erin Burnett, CNN "An ideal tour guide for your journey into the depths of the...
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Unsettled : What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
Koonin, Steven E.BenBella Books 2021"Unsettled is a remarkable book—probably the best book on climate change for the intelligent layperson—that achieves the feat of conveying complex information clearly and in depth....
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Not on My Watch : How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon
Morton, AlexandraRandom House of Canada 2021NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account o...
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The Disordered Cosmos : A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Prescod-Weinstein, ChandaHachette Audio 2021 UnabridgedFrom a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O...
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Under a White Sky : The Nature of the Future
Kolbert, ElizabethCrown 2021NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much dama...
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Cyber Privacy : Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
Doss, April FalconBenBella Books 2020"Chilling, eye-opening, and timely, Cyber Privacy makes a strong case for the urgent need to reform the laws and policies that protect our personal data. If your reaction to that s...
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Deep Time Reckoning : How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
Ialenti, VincentMIT Press 2020A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own ac...