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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At this very moment, we are moving through space at 130 miles per second, and yet we don't notice at all. Nothing slips and falls off the kitchen table as the Earth spins, and our bodies aren't catapulted against random buildings and trees by the planet orbiting the Sun. We, and everything around us, move at the same rate, so we simply don't notice the force that propels us through space. Nor do we notice the strangest fact of all, that we and everything...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one emergency cascades into another, underscoring the larger...
3) Costa Rica
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Costa Rica is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Trek through dense jungles in Parque Nacional Corcovado, swim under Montezuma Waterfalls and catch waves on Santa Teresa; all with your trusted travel companion.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, Why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? Tough broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She...
5) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"All of Earth's oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski illustrates the mechanisms behind this defining feature of our planet, voyaging from the depths of the ocean floor to tropical coral reefs, estuaries that feed into shallow coastal seas, and Arctic ice floes. Through stories of history,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can't fight lies with truth? Can a propaganda war ever be won? In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, crowing victory and smearing his enemies...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Atlanta is widely considered to be America's Black Mecca. It has a higher concentration of black millionaires, black-owned businesses, and HBCUs than any other city in the United States. African Americans are overrepresented in every strata of Atlanta's governance. In 2020, more black voters in the Atlanta area cast ballots than those in any other state's metro, evincing a political power that flipped a once deeply red state blue. However, 150 years...
Author
Publisher
Crown Currency
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Fun, tangible advice on how to live with money, not for money, from the women behind The Financial Diet. The Girlboss came in many forms, and she struggled valiantly against the rising wave of exhaustion at her brand of pinkwashed-capitalism-as-liberation-but it's fair to say that we can finally put her to rest. Yes, money is essential to life, and managing it well is often the difference between freedom and constraint. But once you have enough of...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic, cathartic diary of Dr. Cornelia Griggs - a young pediatric surgeon and the mother of two toddlers - as she worked on the front lines during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic at one of New York City's busiest hospitals"--
Author
Publisher
Quadrille
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
There are over 20,000 species of bee worldwide, of which just seven species are honeybees. In the US alone, there are over 4,000 species of bee, whereas Europe only have nearly 2,000 bee species and the UK has 275. The Wild Bee Handbook is a practical, illustrated guide that will introduce you to the common wild bees you might find in your garden. Through a handy directory, learn how vital wild bees are to the ecosystem and discover how we can garden...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this addition to his New York Times bestselling Plant Paradox series, Steven R. Gundry, MD offers a guide to the gut biome and its control over its home-us!-revealing the unimaginably complex and intelligent ecosystem controlling our health and teaching us how to heal our guts to prevent and reverse every type of disease"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on, as do the pervasive societal stigmas and ignorance that shape women's health and relationships with their own bodies. The author draws back the curtain on the collective medical...
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