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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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Are you more likely to become a professional footballer if your surname is Ball? How can you be one hundred per cent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeiians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? How do you prevent a nuclear war? Ever since the dawn of human civilisation, we have been trying to make predictions about what's in store for us. We do this on a personal level, so that we can get on with our lives efficiently (should I...
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"Can you ever truly go home again? An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall--until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded...
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Sought-after interior designer offers a practical, room-by-room guide to creating the home you long for by decorating to fit your style, serve your loved ones, and foster hospitality in ways that reflect your personal story"--
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Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023].
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"Native America has confronted apocalypse for more than four hundred years. Choctaw elder Steven Charleston tells the stories of four Indigenous prophets who helped their people learn strategies for surviving catastrophe, using their lessons and wisdom as guidance for how we can face the uncertainty of the modern age"--
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Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected. Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees really 'talk' to one another? What are the black birds saying today? And is there a mindful way to deal with an aphid infestation? From rising early to walk barefoot on the grass each morning, to afternoons and evenings...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a gleeful exploration of games and math, spanning centuries...
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"In Never Enough, reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and psychologists, she offers a humane view of the crisis plaguing today's teens and a practical framework for how to help"--
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Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Today's youth sports experience provokes countless questions for well-intentioned parents. How young should kids start playing sports? Should they specialize--and when? What should a parent do when their kid is not getting the playing time they think their child deserves? How do parents encourage children without overwhelming them? And most importantly: how do we ensure our kids both reach their true potential on the playing field, and are well-prepared...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Entra en el juzgado mientras un miembro del jurado conduce a un grupo claramente dividido hacia encontrar un consenso. Únete a un joven oficial de la CIA mientras recluta a un agente extranjero renuente. Y siéntate con un cirujano consumado mientras intenta convencer a otro paciente de cáncer de que elija un tratamiento menos riesgoso, y fracasa. En Supercomunicadores, Charles Duhigg mezcla investigaciones profundas con sus conocidas habilidades...
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HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2024.
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"A young adoptee notices that her eyes look different from her parents'. She realizes that though her eyes may not match her adoptive parents', the profound love her family shares connects them. Even as she carries questions about her history, the girl realizes that her eyes weave the world's wonders and shimmer with hopes and dreams and stories that are uniquely her own.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people--morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners--who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
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