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The Red Queen

Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

by Matt Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles...
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Genius Foods

Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life

by Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018

New York Times Bestseller Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat and change the way your brain ages, in this cutting-edge, practical guide to eliminating brain fog, optimizing brain health, and achieving peak mental performance from media personality and leading...
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The Invention of Science

A New History of the Scientific Revolution

by David Wootton
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015

A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts—a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world. We live in a world transformed...
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Evolutionaries

Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science's Greatest Idea

by Carter Phipps
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

“Carter Phipps brilliantly expands our understanding of evolution by showing us that a new science is emerging—one that will holistically integrate our understanding of consciousness, cosmology, and evolution.” —Deepak Chopra Blending cutting-edge ideas with incisive spiritual insights,...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World

America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

by Simon Winchester
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look...
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The Longevity Paradox

How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age

by Dr. Steven R Gundry, MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life. From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging does not have to mean decline. World-renowned surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry has been treating mature...
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Proust and the Squid

The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

by Maryanne Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable...
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Pieces of Light

How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts

by Charles Fernyhough
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

Shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books Leading psychologist Charles Fernyhough blends the most current science with literature and personal stories in Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts. A new...
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Hillbilly Elegy

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J. D. Vance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD **"You will not read a more important book about America this year.**"—The Economist "A riveting...
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The Right to Try

How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Life-Saving Treatments They Need

by Darcy Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

Why should you need the government’s permission to save your own life? Jenn McNary’s two sons, Max and Austin, were diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal disorder that leads to muscle degeneration and eventually death. In a cruel and unnecessary twist, Max received access...
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Beauty Sick

How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women

by Renee Engeln PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and...
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Reconstruction

America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011

Newly Reissued with a New Introduction: From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one...
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

by Karen Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet...
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Imagine

Living in a Socialist U.S.A.

by Frances Goldin, Debby Smith, Michael Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population....
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