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The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

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Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long...
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The Vertical Farm
Feeding the World in the 21st Century

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A Library Journal Best Book of 2010 “A world-changing innovation whose time has come. The visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world’s food...
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The Fate of Nature
Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth

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The Fate of Nature is a profoundly relevant call to action from journalist Charles Wohlforth, whose award-winning reportage addressed the infamous 1989 Exxon...
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Mirroring People
The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others

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Includes a new Afterword by the Author What accounts for our remarkable ability to get inside another person's head--to know what he or she is thinking and...
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Bodies
Big Ideas/Small Books

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Esteemed Psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach diagnoses the crisis in our relationship to our bodies and points the way toward a process of...
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The Perfect Scent
A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York

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The Perfect Scent is the thrilling inside story of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents....
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The Painted Word

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"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been...
  
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The World Without Us

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Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Salon Book Awards...
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The Right Stuff

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From "America’s nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of...
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A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But...

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient...
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Indian Creek Chronicles
A Winter Alone in the Wilderness

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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm’s account of seven winter months spent alone in...
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How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives

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“A balanced yet biting critique . . . Gitlin is a savvy guide to our increasingly kinetic times.”—San Francisco Chronicle In this original look at our...
  
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Savage Girls and Wild Boys
A History of Feral Children

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Wild or feral children have fascinated us down the centuries, and continue to do so today. In a haunting and hugely readable study, Michael Newton deftly...
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The Little Green Handbook
Seven Trends Shaping the Future of Our Planet

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Published for the first time in the United States, The Little Green Handbook is a unique reference work that illustrates the most important global developments...