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Released: Jan. 15, 2013
"An intelligent, eloquent account of our relations with the inanimate universe."
In a follow-up to
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008), Shubin (Biological Sciences/Univ. of Chicago) delivers an equally engrossing history of life's connections to everything else.
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Released: Jan. 15, 2013
"Many a gardener will likely find that motivation from this pleasant book."
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Released: Jan. 15, 2013
"Heart-pounding action for the avid armchair adventurer."
The gripping account of three extraordinary 2007 maritime rescues near the treacherous waters of the Gulf Stream.
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Released: Jan. 8, 2013
"An extraordinarily frank cultural study/memoir that eschews platitudes of both tragedy and hope."
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Released: Jan. 8, 2013
"An artful blend of reflection and call to action that steers around environmental fatalism toward "the exhilaration and melancholy that mark every life.""
Sachs (History and American Studies/Cornell Univ.;
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, 2006) offers a deep-running meditation on life, death, and our place in and responsibility to our world.
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Released: Jan. 8, 2013
"An enjoyable closer look at what most people miss when walking through a city."
Round and round the blocks of New York City, Horowitz (Psychology, Animal Behavior, and Canine Cognition/Barnard Coll.;
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know, 2010) takes readers on multiple walks, showing us what we fail to spot when we don't pay attention.
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Released: Jan. 1, 2013
"A fine, fun presentation of the brand of cartography that continues to whet our imaginations."
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Released: Jan. 1, 2013
"While his uncompromising views are--and are intended to be--provocative, the author's love of nature and his tender evocation of a way of life that is dying out have appeal."
Now nearing his 70th birthday, Vermont poet laureate Lea (
A Hundred Himalayas: Essays on Life and Literature, 2012, etc.) meditates on the role of people and place in his life and pays tribute to the many woodsmen (and women) who were his guides and mentors.
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Released: Dec. 31, 2012
"A symphonic yet unromantic portrait of traditional societies and the often stirring lessons they offer."
A supple and engaged journey into traditional societies and an exploration of their ways of life, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997).
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Released: Dec. 11, 2012
"A formidable inquiry into why the marvels of nature and the distinctiveness of cultures are constantly imperiled."
A deep look at the human capacity for extinction twined with roamings to the far ends of the earth, from poet and fledgling natural historian Challenger (
Galatea, 2006, etc.).
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Released: Dec. 1, 2012
"A winning, enlightening investigation into wind engineering and the man who made the airwaves speak."
A richly drawn portrait of Alan Davenport (1932–2009), the maestro of "balancing the wind's fickle forces."
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Released: Dec. 1, 2012
"A magical tour back to a time before telephone and instant forms of communication. Narrated by a woman who went on to become the most widely published author of all time, this volume should delight both Christie fans and history buffs."
