This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
By: Nate Schweber
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of Ameri…
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1. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
By: Richard O. Prum
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences--what Darwin … read more
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"Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth."-Richard O. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
"In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they do not involve anything other than perceived …"-Richard O. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
2. Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
By: Peter Baker
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a… read more
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3. A Crack in the Edge of the World
By: Simon Winchester
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early… read more
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4. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
By: Bernard DeVoto , Wallace Stegner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from expl… read more
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5. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
By: Leah Hazard
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus--from birth to death, in sickness and in h… read more
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6. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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7. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By: Greg Grandin
4.29
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more
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"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
8. Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump
By: Kate Andersen Brower
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
USA Today Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Wome… read more
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9. Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
By: Eric Jay Dolin
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale of… read more
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10. Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
By: Andre Dubus III
4.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Essays from the literary master and bestselling author of Townie on a life of challenges, contradic… read more
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11. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
By: Martyn Rady
4.13
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more
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12. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
By: Buddy Levy
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more
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13. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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14. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
By: Stefanos Geroulanos
3.76
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An eminent historian demonstrates how claims about the origins of humanity have been used to justif… read more
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15. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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16. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
By: Boyce Upholt
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more
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17. Whoever You Are, Honey
By: Olivia Gatwood
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more
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18. Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands
By: John Clayton
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history, protected Yosemite, co-founded the Sierr… read more
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"But among the great road trips of American history--from Lewis and Clark to Alexis de Tocqueville to Jack Kerouac-- it hardly rates a mention."-John Clayton, Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands
19. This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
By: Nate Schweber
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of Ameri… read more
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20. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
By: Tom McGrath
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more
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21. Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
By: Rachel Kousser
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to c… read more
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