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Catastrophic Care
How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It
David Goldhill's new book tells the story of how he lost his father to hospital-acquired infections. Combining personal experience with research, Goldhill argues against the expansion of insurance coverage while recommending a patient-empowering approach that would make health care transparent, affordable, and effective.
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Fat Chance
Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
Dr. Robert Lustig chronicles how the food industry has replaced fat with sugar and triggered disastrous biochemical changes. Lustig believes the resulting health crisis can be overcome through strategic hormone-adjusting measures.NPR Bestseller
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A Universe From Nothing
Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss presents his observations on why the universe came into being.
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On The Map
A Mind-Expanding Exploration Of The Way The World Looks
The award-winning author of Just My Type examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history in an account that also shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
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The Half-Life of Facts
Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
A scientometrics expert analyzes the changing nature of factual information to explain how knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways that, if properly understood, can be powerful tools for training and professional improvement.
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The Visioneers
How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
Tells the story of how scientists and the communities they fostered imagined, designed, and popularized such speculative technologies as space colonies and nanotechnologies.
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The Power of Habit
Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business
Identifying the neurological processes behind behaviors while explaining that self-control and success are largely driven by habits, a guide by a Yale-educated investigative reporter for The New York Times shares scientifically based guidelines for achieving personal goals and overall well-being by adjusting specific habits.NPR Bestseller
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All Yesterdays
Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
An illustrated survey of possibilities and details that may have been overlooked by paleontologists reconstructing the ways dinosaurs looked — combined with speculation about what future paleontologists may think when confronted with the fossil record modern life will leave.
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The Generals
American Military Command from World War II to Today
The Generals describes the values, strategic thinking and leadership qualities of military leaders from World War II to the present day and how the widening separation between performance and accountability has not resulted in any recent Marshalls, Eisenhowers or Pattons.
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Apocalyptic Planet
Field Guide to the Everending Earth
Discusses the Earth's inherent instability and susceptibility toward violent natural disasters and climate extremes, challenging beliefs about apocalyptic inevitabilities while revealing how to change humanity's place within the planet's cycles.
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A World in One Cubic Foot
Portraits of Biodiversity
Presents portraits of the diverse life forms that moved through one cubic foot of space over twenty-four hours in six different ecosystems around the world.
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Gossip
The Untrivial Pursuit
An incisive exploration of the cultural practice of gossip defines the phenomenon as an eternal and necessary human enterprise that has evolved to new levels in the Internet age, exploring the ways that gossip has had a negative impact on politics and journalism. By the best-selling author of Snobbery.
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The Particle at the End of the Universe
How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
Examines the effort to discover the Higgs boson particle by tracing the development and use of the Large Hadron Collider and how its findings are dramatically shaping scientific understandings while enabling world-changing innovations.
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Drop Dead Healthy
One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
In Drop Dead Healthy, author A.J. Jacobs attempts to become the healthiest man in the world. Structuring his life around a deluge of diets and fitness regimens that often contradict each other, he experiences the logical conclusion of our culture's health obsessions. NPR Bestseller
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A Man of Misconceptions
The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change
Athanasius Kircher, the legendary 17th-century priest-scientist, was either a genius or a raving lunatic. This fascinating portrait traces his rise, success and eventual fall.
