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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Mary Roach’s Grunt and NOT the original book. Preview: Mary Roach’s Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans At War examines technological and medical research in the military. Each chapter focuses on a different topic—for example, diarrhea among...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures and NOT the original book. Preview: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly is a history of black women...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds and NOT the original book. Preview: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses the evolution of intelligence in cephalopods in order to better understand...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bill O'Reilly's & et al Killing the Rising Sun and NOT the original book. Preview: Killing the Rising Sun relates episodes from the Pacific theater of World War II including the controversial US decision to develop and utilize atomic weapons....

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to DeVon Franklin’s & et al and NOT the original book. Preview: Coauthored by husband and wife team DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good, The Wait describes the ways a celibate mindset can impact various facets of life, including a person’s relationship...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Henry Cloud's The Power of the Other and NOT the original book. Preview: The Power of the Other by Henry Cloud is a self-help book that demonstrates the ways that people influence each other. It describes how to cultivate healthy relationships in...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paula McLain’s Circling the Sun and NOT the original book. Preview: Circling the Sun is a novelized account of the life of Beryl Markham written by Paula McLain. Beryl broke all the rules for a proper young lady as she grew up in colonial Kenya,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and NOT the original book. Preview: Jeannette Walls chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle, a memoir of growing up dirt-poor on a cross-country odyssey...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Matt Tabbi's Insane Clown President and NOT the original book. Preview: Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus is a collection of articles about the 2016 presidential election that journalist Matt Taibbi wrote for Rolling Stone magazine....

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bret Baier’s Three Days in January and NOT the original book. Preview: Bret Baier’s Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission is a laudatory evaluation of Eisenhower’s career in the military and subsequent presidency. The book...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jordan Ellenberg’s How Not to Be Wrong and NOT the original book. Preview: How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg attempts to demonstrate real-life applications of mathematics. In schools, students learn math principles in abstract contexts. Math...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steven Levitt’s & et al SuperFreakonomics and NOT the original book. Preview: SuperFreakonomics (2009) by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner is a follow-up to the authors’ previous book Freakonomics (2005). Like the previous book, SuperFreakonomics...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Haylie Pomroy’s & et al The Fast Metabolism Diet and NOT the original book. Preview: The Fast Metabolism Diet by Haylie Pomroy and Eve Adamson is an instructional overview of the diet plan Pomroy developed in her work as a dietician for a range...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David Zinczenko’s Zero Belly Diet and NOT the original book. Preview: Zero Belly Diet, written by David Zinczenko, outlines not only a particular diet plan, but it also delves into the science behind the meal plan as well as dieting and nutrition...