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  • Playing Possum
    Playing Possum
    Monsó, Susana
    When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from bein...

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  • Insectpedia
    Insectpedia
    Eaton, Eric R / Porter, Amy Jean (illus.)
    Insectpedia introduces you to the wonders of the insect world while inviting you to make discoveries of your own. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from murder hornets and the “insect apocalypse” to pioneering entomologists such as Margaret James Strickland Collins and Douglas Tallamy, this beautifully illustrated, pocket-friendly encyclopedia dispels many common my...

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  • Keith Haring
    Keith Haring
    Deitch, Jeffrey
    A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists in the 1980s, Haring found an empty canvas in the advertising panels scattered throughout New York City's subway system, wher...

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  • Mushroom at the End of the World,The
    Mushroom at the End of the World,The
    Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
    What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical ...

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  • Basquiat-isms
    Basquiat-isms
    Basquiat, Jean-Michel / Warsh, Larry (ed.)
    One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings, notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms is a collection o...

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  • Mimesis
    Mimesis
    Auerbach, Erich
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial es...

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  • Expanding Circle, The
    Expanding Circle, The
    Singer, Peter
    What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology - especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism? In his classic study "The Expanding Circle"...

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  • Silence of Heaven, The
    Silence of Heaven, The
    Oz, Amos
    In The Silence of Heaven, the world renowned Israeli novelist Amos Oz introduces us to an extraordinary masterpiece of Hebrew literature that is just now appearing in English, S. Y. Agnon’s Only Yesterday. For Oz, Agnon is a treasure trove of a world no longer available to today’s writers, yet deeply meaningful for his wonderment about God, the submerged eroticism of his writin...

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  • Shamanism
    Shamanism
    Eliade, Mircea
    Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia-where shamanism was first observed-to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibe...

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  • Brutal Aesthetics
    Brutal Aesthetics
    Foster, Hal
    How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that mo...

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  • Zen and Japanese Culture
    Zen and Japanese Culture
    Suzuki, Daisetz T.
    Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic language, Daisetz Suzuki describes Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmans...

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  • Cat Wars
    Cat Wars
    Marra, Peter
    In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected for some time--that in the United States alone, free-ranging cats are killing bi...

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  • Birds of Southern Africa: Fifth Revised Edition
    Birds of Southern Africa: Fifth Revised...
    Sinclair, Ian / Hockey, Phil / Tarboton, Warwick / Perrins, Niall / Rollinson, Dominic / Ryan, Peter
    A substantially revised and expanded new edition of the bestselling standard field guide for southern Africa, now with a dedicated app providing access to vocalizationsNow in its fifth edition, Birds of Southern Africa has been brought fully up to date by its expert authors and greatly enhanced with a wide range of new information and features. Providing comprehensive coverage ...

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  • Dogpedia
    Dogpedia
    Pierce, Jessica / Chudler, Kelly (illus.)

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  • Little Book of Spiders, The
    Little Book of Spiders, The
    Pollard, Simon / Okay, Tugce (illus,)

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  • Nude, The
    Nude, The
    Clark, Kenneth

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  • Birdpedia
    Birdpedia
    Leahy, Christopher W. / McBride, Abby

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  • Neuropedia
    Neuropedia
    Chudler, Eric H. / Chudler, Kelly

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  • Twelve Caesars
    Twelve Caesars
    Beard, Mary

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  • Little Book of Fungi, The
    Little Book of Fungi, The
    Bunyard, Britt A.

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  • Little Book of Trees, The
    Little Book of Trees, The
    Shugart, Herman / White, Peter / Okay, Tugce (illus.)

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  • Color Charts
    Color Charts
    Varichon, Anne
    A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized practitioners and scholars for centuries. Color Charts describes the many different methods and ingenious devices developed since the fifteenth century by doctors, naturalists, dyers, a...

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  • Digital Design
    Digital Design
    Eskilson, Stephen
    A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to todayDigital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business, engineering, theater, music, and artificial intelligence. Stephen Eskilson traces the history of digital design from its precursors ...

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  • Surreal Spaces
    Surreal Spaces
    Moorhead, Joanna
    The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything—are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society, and Eng...

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  • Mina Loy
    Mina Loy
    Gross, Jennifer R.
    Mina Loy (1882–1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark in painting, drawing, prose, art criticism, and fashion. Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable is the first book to examine the full scope of her extraordinary career, demonstrating Loy’s transformative impact on the visual arts as well as the literar...

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  • Eros the Bittersweet
    Eros the Bittersweet
    Carson, Anne
    Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sappho’s invention of the word “bittersweet” to describe Eros, Carson’s original and ...

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  • Economics in America
    Economics in America
    Deaton, Angus
    From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craftWhen economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America’s strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in...

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  • Be Not Afraid of Life
    Be Not Afraid of Life
    James, William / Kaag, John (ed.) Belle, Jonathan van (ed.)
    William James, psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker, is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life’s meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how they live. The thinker who helped found the philosophy of pragmatism and inspire Alcoholics Anonymous, James famously asked, "is life worth living?" B...

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  • Paleontology
    Paleontology
    Bainbridge, David
    An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to todayHumans have been stumbling upon the petrified remains of ancient animals since prehistoric times, leading to tales of giant dogs, deadly dragons, tree gods, sea serpents, and all manner of strange and marvelous creatures. In this richly illustrated book, David Bainbridge recounts how legends lik...

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  • Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Buchhart, Dieter / Hofbauer, Anna Karina / Montez, Ricardo / Ricard, Rene / Russell-Cook, Myles / Warsh, Larry / Wiedmann, Anke / Yablonksy, Linda

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