Water: A Biography
By: Giulio Boccaletti
3.68
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory history--spanning continents and millennia--of how the distribution of water has shape…
Want to Read $ 4.99"The apex of Egypt's Middle Kingdom had redefined the powerful hydraulic nation. The catastrophe that marked the end of this period of prosperity and regional integration appears to have been a climate-induced migration crisis. it contained a crucial insight that would go unheeded by most subsequent hydraulic hegemons: In the relationship between water and society, the resilience of the state is not just a function of its proficiency in harnessing its own resources; it is equally a function of all others in the system succeeding at doing the same."-Giulio Boccaletti, Water: A Biography
"The apex of Egypt's Middle Kingdom had redefined the powerful hydraulic nation. The catastrophe that marked the end of this period of prosperity and regional integration appears to have been a climate-induced migration crisis. it contained a crucial insight that would go unheeded by most subsequent hydraulic hegemons: In the relationship between water and society, the resilience of the state is not just a function of its proficiency in harnessing its own resources; it is equally a function of all others in the system succeeding at doing the same."-Giulio Boccaletti, Water: A Biography
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1. The Cat Inside
By: William S. Burroughs
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Best known for the wild, phantasmagoric satire of works like Naked Lunch , William S. Burroughs rev… read more
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"Like all pure creatures, cats are practical."-William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself."-William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside
"Are you Billy?", I ask. "I'm anybody who loves me", he answers."-William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside
"I am the cat who walks alone. And to me all supermarkets are alike."-William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside
2. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917
By: Ernest Shackleton
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shack… read more
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3. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
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4. God: A Story of Revelation
By: Deepak Chopra
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Deepak Chopra, whose extraordinary Enlightenment series includes the phenomenal New York Timesbests… read more
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5. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
By: Liaquat Ahamed
4.19
Format: 144 pages,
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late … read more
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6. A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
By: Dava Sobel
3.66
Format: None pages,
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of… read more
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7. Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
By: Adam Minter
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? P… read more
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8. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
By: Nora Seligman Favorov , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin… read more
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9. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
10. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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11. Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
By: Guido Tonelli
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, The Story o… read more
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"La aparición del pensamiento simbólico marca una de las etapas fundamentales de la evolución humana."-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
"Durante millones de años, la humanidad ha tenido que lidiar cotidianamente con la dureza de la existencia."-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
"La sensación de asombro frente a un cielo estrellado supone, todavía hoy, una emoción intensa, en la que se escucha el eco del antiguo estupor que marcó a las miles de generaciones que nos han preced…"-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
12. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examin… read more
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"Who am I, really?"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"The focus on lived experience by identity groups valorizes inner selves experienced emotionally rather than examined rationally. Notes one observer, “Our political culture is marked, at the micro lev…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"Confusion over identity arises as a condition of living in the modern world. Modernization means constant change and disruption, and the opening up of choices that did not exist before. It is mobile,…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics o…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
13. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
By: Ben Rawlence
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more
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14. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
15. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
By: Christie Aschwanden
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller “The definitive tour through a bewildering jungle o… read more
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16. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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17. Water: A Biography
By: Giulio Boccaletti
3.68
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
By: Johan Eklöf
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more
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"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
19. Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market
By: Nicholas Wapshott
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business and… read more
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