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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully...
6) Diagnosis
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Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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50 difficult medical cases that served as inspiration for an upcoming Netflix original series, including a vacationer who was poisoned after eating barracuda and a middle-aged woman with a purple streaked rash.
8) The message
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English
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In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation’s recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Imbler profiles ten of the ocean's strangest creatures, drawing astonishing connections between their lives and ours and illuminating wondrous models of survival, adaptation, identity, sex, and care on our faltering planet."-- Adapted from publisher's description.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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From beloved author Roxane Gay, comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy--alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze?...
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life. In this, her debut book, she delivers a wholly original collection of powerful, emotionally raw, and unforgettable personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately. Expertly weaving her own experiences of motherhood and marriage with an almost devotional attention to the natural...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In this hand-picked collection of 101 letters, Tyson draws upon cosmic perspectives to address a vast array of questions about science, faith, philosophy, life, and of course, Pluto. His succinct, opinionated, passionate, and often funny responses reflect his popularity and standing as a leading educator.
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Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been thinking aloud about America in her much-loved Wall Street Journal column. In this collection of her essential recent work, Noonan demonstrates the erudition, wisdom and humor that have made her one of America's most admired writers. She calls balls and strikes on the political shenanigans of recent leaders and she honors the integrity of Americans, ranging from Billy Graham to the heroes of 9/11. She writes...
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