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Nonfiction Previews, Jan. 2014, Pt. 4: Cosmology, Technology, & the Brain
American College of Veterinary Behaviorists. Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How To Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones. Houghton Harcourt. Jan. 2014. ed. by...
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Big Science Titles from Tim Flannery, Michio Kaku, & More | Barbara’s Picks,...
Ferreira, Pedro G. The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle Over General Relativity. Houghton Harcourt. Feb. 2014. 304p. ISBN 9780547554891. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780547554907. SCIENCE Oxford...
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Science Titles from Jane Goodall, Bernd Heinrich, & More | Nonfiction...
Denworth, Lydia. I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language. Dutton. Apr. 2014. 368p. ISBN 9780525953791. $26.95. HEALTH/HEARING When her third son was...
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Doyle, Figes, McCracken, Simpson, Vaill, Wilson | Barbara’s Picks, Apr. 2014,...
Doyle, Brian. The Plover. Thomas Dunne: St. Martin’s. Apr. 2014. 320p. ISBN 9781250034779. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250034786. LITERARY FICTION Editor of Portland Magazine, Doyle has written 13 books of...
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History & Political Science from the Fight for Marriage Equality to the Lives...
Aly, Götz. Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust. Metropolitan: Holt. Apr. 2014. 320p. ISBN 9780805097009. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780805097047. HISTORY A noted...
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History, Science, & Politics | Nonfiction Previews, Jun. 2014, Pt. 1
Baime, A.J. The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest To Arm an America at War. Houghton Harcourt. Jun. 2014. 368p. ISBN 9780547719283. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780547834443....
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Barbree on Neil Armstrong, Memoirs from Travis Barker & Lee Grant, Germaine...
Barbree, Jay. Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight. Thomas Dunne: St. Martin’s. Jul. 2014. 320p. ISBN 9781250040718. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9781466836341. BIOGRAPHY During 55 years at NBC News, Barbree covered...
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Mark Adams, Julie Holland, & the Art of Poetry | Nonfiction Previews, Mar....
Adams, Mark. Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest To Find the Sunken City. Dutton. Mar. 2015. 336p. ISBN 9780525953708. $27.95. TRAVEL The author of the New York Times best seller Turn Right at...
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Saul Bellow, Scott Ellsworth, Caryl Phillips, & More | Barbara’s Picks, Mar....
Bellow, Saul. There Is Simply Too Much To Think About: Collected Nonfiction. Viking. Mar. 2015. 608p. ed. by Benjamin Taylor. ISBN 9780670016693. $35. LITERATURE Issued in time for the centenary of...
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Quantum Biology, the Neuroscience of Anxiety, & Nobel Prize Winner Wilczek on...
LeDoux, Joseph. Anxious: Using the Brain To Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety. Viking. Jul. 2015. 288p. ISBN 9780670015337. $27.95. PSYCHOLOGY Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York...
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Making and Breaking | Self-Help Reviews, September 15, 2015
Making and Breaking is a pertinent theme for this month’s column. The titles go from connecting with nature and other people to cutting the ties that bind to exploring New Age philosophies and the lost...
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Survival Skills, Music Conservation, Parrots of the Wild, & More | Reference...
Emerson, Clint. 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative’s Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation. Touchstone. 2015. 251p. ISBN 9781476796055. pap. $18; ebk....
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James McBride’s Quest for the Real James Brown | Audio in Advance April 2016...
Ackerman, Jennifer. The Genius of Birds. HighBridge. ISBN 9781681681283. Reader TBA. Traveling around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research―the distant laboratories of Barbados and...
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Nonfiction on Theodore Roosevelt, Jewish Culture, Everyday Technologies,...
Week ending February 26, 2016 Canfield, Michael R. Theodore Roosevelt in the Field. Univ. of Chicago. 2015. 472p. photos. notes. index. ISBN 9780226298375. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780226298405. BIOG/SCI...
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Happy Birthday, Parks | Social Science Reviews, July 1, 2016
Lonely Planet National Parks of America. Lonely Planet. Apr. 2016. 328p. ed. by Lonely Planet. illus. index. ISBN 9781760340643. $29.99. TRAV This Lonely Planet book isn’t the familiar small paperback...
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Books for Our Times | Nonfiction Previews, Apr. 2017, Pt. 1
Douthat, Ross. To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. S. & S. Apr. 2017. 224p. ISBN 9781501146923. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781501146947. RELIGION As conservative New York Times...
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Nonfiction: Best-sellerdom, Science, Women Workers, Middle East Peace,...
Week ending February 24, 2017 Archer, Jodie & Matthew L. Jockers. The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel. St. Martin’s. Sept. 2016. 256p. illus. notes. ISBN 9781250088277. $25.99;...
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Nonfiction: Frank Little & Labor, Forces of Nature, Gershom Scholem, Native...
Week ending April 7, 2017 Botkin, Jane Little. Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family. Univ. of Oklahoma. May 2017. 512p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780806155005....
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