Earth: An Intimate History
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
An adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science. Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip b…
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago, by a brilliant young paleobiologist
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
Author Robert M. Hazen writes of how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere—of rocks and living matter—has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the enti…
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Archangel
Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of academia, he's never delivered. But one night, at a symposium in Moscow concerning the release of secret …
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The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O'Brian does this with prodigal specificity and ge…
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H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death and tumultuous romance in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Tasked w…
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The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command—until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to…
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Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
“If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian.” ― Time It’s 1802. The Treaty of Amiens has brought an end to the hostiliti…
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval today
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The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Russell Crowe. The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful Amer…
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusatte enchanted readers with his definitive history of the dinosaurs. Now, picking up the narrative in …
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The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Times hosts a delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, revealing how it connects to literature, philosophy, law, medicine, art…
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Dispatches
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.
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