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Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One in six Americans have stopped talking to close friends and family members over politics. Ideological polarization is at higher levels than at any time since the Civil War. America has developed a habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect or misguided, but as worthless. Brooks shows that treating others with contempt and out-outraging the other side is not a formula for lasting success. He offers a new way to lead based...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A personal journey into our evolving relationships with animals, and a thought-provoking look at how those bonds are being challenged and reformed across disciplines We love animals, but does that make the animals' lives any happier? With factory farms,climate change and deforestation, this might be the worst time in history to be an animal. If we took animals' experiences seriously, how could we eat, think and live differently? How to Love Animals...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Many pet dogs are experiencing anxiety and frustration as they struggle to adapt to human home environments--despite being pampered, poofed, and petted, or perhaps in part because of this. We can do better for them. Who's a Good Dog challenges us to think more carefully about the limits we place on their inherited, deep-rooted behaviors. Bioethicist Jessica Pierce explores common practices of caring for, socializing, and training pet dogs. She asks...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2020, history came tumbling down. But as the past three hundred years have shown, history is not erased when statues are removed. Exploring the rise and fall of twelve famous, yet now controversial statues, Alex von Tunzelmann takes us on a fascinating global historical tour filled with larger than life characters and dramatic stories. Von Tunzelmann reveals that statues are not historical records but political statements and distinguishes between...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fox News host and New York Times bestselling author Pete Hegseth delivers his most important book yet: an excoriating examination of the state of America's broken education system that offers a helpful road map to raising children to uphold the values Americans have always treasured"--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
xii, 220 pages, [16] pages of plates : col. illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Could extinct species like mammoths and passenger pigeons be brought back to life? The science says yes. In [this book], Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in 'ancient DNA' research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to anticipating how revived populations might be overseen in the wild, Shapiro vividly explores...
8) Sacred seed
Publisher
The Golden Sufi Center Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
iii, 119 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray.
Author
Publisher
Crown, Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 462 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think." --Publisher's description.
13) The dangerous case of Donald Trump: 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 360 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the consensus of more than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that President Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Trump, Jr. writes about the importance of fighting back and standing up for what you believe in. From his childhood summers in Communist Czechoslovakia that began his political thought process, to working on construction sites with his father, to the major achievements of President Trump's administration, Donald Trump, Jr. spares no details and delivers a book that focuses on success and perseverance, and proves offense is the best defense."--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 347 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Part of the Pentagon's most daring and controversial attempt since Vietnam to bring social science to the Afghanistan battlefield, three tough-minded American civilians find their humanity tested and their lives forever changed by this little-known mission.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including blindness and paralysis), waves of apocalyptic rumors crashed over the land. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores...