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The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

W W Norton, 2019

From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.

A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power,...

A Mediterranean Platter: Meze, Tapas & More to Celebrate Mediterranean Diet Month & Beyond

Independent Publishers Group, 2021

A Mediterranean diet centers around traditional food that people ate in countries around the Mediterranean Sea way back in the sixties. Research led to the discovery that following the healthy way of eating can help prevent heart disease, strokes, and diabetes.

A Mediterranean diet isn't restrictive. It includes eating...

Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events (The Multicultural History & Heroes Collection)

Visible Ink Press, 2021

T wenty-seven years ago when Black Firsts broke virgin ground, the pref- ace described the struggle encountered in documenting the lives of first black achievers. So often we speak of the rich and deep history of African Americans and note the anxiety that frequently comes with knowing that something important needs to be...

Theory of the Earth

Stanford University Press, 2021

We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in the fossil record for millennia or...

Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

Hachette, 2021

An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II.

Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of...

Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

The Experiment, 2021

Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today

Publisher’s Note: Good Thinking was previously published in the UK as The Irrational Ape.

In our ever-more-polarized society, there’s at least one thing we...

The Soul of a Woman

Ballantine Books, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).

“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle...

Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power

Springer, 2020

In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance, and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex. Wars are no longer limited to the traditional military conflict domains?land, sea, air; even space and cyber space. The new battlefield will be the cognitive domain and the new conflict a larger...

Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting

Ecco, 2019

From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and often contradictory history of Western parenting

Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be perfectly socially acceptable...

The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

Penguin Press, 2019

Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.

Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago...

Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth

Bloomsbury Reference, 2020

In this post-natural history guide, Helen Pilcher invites us to meet key species that have been sculpted by humanity.

We are now living through the post-natural phase, where the fate of all living things is irrevocably intertwined with our own. We domesticated animals to suit our needs, and altered their...

The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture from the Classical World to the Middle Ages

Oxbow Books, 2021

The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection. These scholarships have attracted ancient writers and generals and nowadays historians, archaeologists and researchers poliorcetics. Military historiography and...

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