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Tracy Kidder - Strength in What Remains

Tracy Kidder - Strength in What Remains

Tracy Kidder (MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS) has a gift for crafting exhilarating narrative nonfiction, and he has found perhaps his most inspirational ...
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Latest review by scmrak Aug 25, 2009
"Strength in What Remains - Tracy Kidder As is the custom of his people, Deogratias has a single name..." Read full review

$5 - $14

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Reviel Netz and William Noel - The Archimedes Codex

Reviel Netz and William Noel - The Archimedes Codex

Describes the discovery of the lost works of Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician, as part of a palimpsest from a medieval prayer book created ...
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Latest review by wmcot Mar 7, 2008
"The Archimedes Codex is fascinating reading even if you are not into math. The story of the discover..." Read full review

$6

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Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

An evolutionary biologist dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for ...
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Latest review by waynio Dec 15, 2010
"Jared Diamond's 1997 bestseller, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a rare, mind-opening book that deserves..." Read full review

$7 - $23

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Mac Montandon - Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was

Mac Montandon - Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was

In this whimsical journey, Mac Montandon chronicles his dreams of the elusive jetpack, a technology popularized in sci-fi comics and books and chased ...
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Latest review by MiDoyle Dec 6, 2008
"Just a few weeks ago (11/23/08), Eric Scott of Jet Pack International flew over a 1,500-foot gorge i..." Read full review

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Michael Schaffer - One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food

Michael Schaffer - One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food

Michael Schaffer has uncovered a staggering statistic that should probably make a lot of us somewhat ashamed: while people starve and suffer here and ...
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Latest review by MiDoyle Sep 13, 2009
"An then we stumbled across the page that featured Murphy, his tongue drooping, his watery eyes stari..." Read full review

$4

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Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin's Sacred Cause

Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin's Sacred Cause

Adrian Desmond and James Moore wrote a definitive biography of Charles Darwin back in 1991, and here they revisit one of the most controversial ...
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Latest review by jankp Mar 31, 2009
"A lot of people today assume that Charles Darwin, that English scientific icon from the nineteenth c..." Read full review

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Cokie Roberts - We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

Cokie Roberts - We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

A revised tenth-anniversary edition of the author's classic work is complemented by a series of new profiles of noteworthy achievers in a variety of ...
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Latest review by pestyside Jul 19, 2009
"NPR’s senior news analyst Cokie Roberts enjoyed the best of both worlds while growing up -- as..." Read full review

$4 - $8

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Gordon S. Wood - The Americanization Of Benjamin Franklin

Gordon S. Wood - The Americanization Of Benjamin Franklin

A leading historian of the American Revolution offers an incisive portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who ...
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Latest review by canuckster1127 May 18, 2009
"You'd expect this book to get high marks, by virtue of the Author and his past credentials. What is..." Read full review

$5

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Vernon Silver - The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece

Vernon Silver - The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece

Traces the dramatic quest to find a missing 2,500-year-old chalice from ancient Greece that disappeared for more than a decade after an anonymous ...

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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot - The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot - The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50

As the Baby Boomer generation reaches retirement age, they are increasingly finding that their lives are not just getting longer--they are getting ...

$5

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Mary Catherine Bateson - Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Mary Catherine Bateson - Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

An exuberant follow-up to Composing a Life evaluates the creative aspects of aging today, relating the experiences of men and women whose lasting ...

$5

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Donald Yacovone - Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War

Donald Yacovone - Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War

The men and women represented in this book had the extraordinary opportunity of witnessing the end of a 200-year struggle for freedom: the Civil War. ...

$5

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Margaret M. Caffrey - To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

Margaret M. Caffrey - To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas.

$4

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