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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed thatlife belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the past few decades, China has climbed the ranks of the global powers with staggering speed. Its vast economy and growing regional aggression make it a threat to supersede the United States as the world's dominant power. But this outcome is far from inevitable. Like neighboring Russia-which harbors global ambitions of its own-right now China is at a turning point. Whereas international sanctions and a turn away from fossil fuels are steadily...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's an open secret that voters in smaller, less populous states have more electoral power than their urban counterparts, so why are these same voters the most eager to leave behind democratic principles? In Held Hostage, political scientists Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why, with all of this extra influence, these same voters fail to see real benefits, for instance suffering worse health and education outcomes than larger states, and...
5) Jumpnauts
Author
Series
Folding universe volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Saga Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 353 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three rising scientists within the Pacific League of Nations form an uneasy alliance to secure first contact with a mysterious alien race before their rivals formulate a potentially disastrous military response, forcing them to solve puzzles rooted withinhuman antiquity, confront their personal demons and discover truths of the universe.
Publisher
Viva Kids
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Zhi, a rookie race car driver, gets the opportunity to compete against the reigning champion of the rally car circuit. With help from a former driver-turned-mechanic, Zhi must overcome treacherous terrain, rival racers, and unexpected obstacles to prove he has what it takes to be the next great racer.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch." So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"This successor volume to The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come. In this entirely new book, Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity-assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of human potential. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding...
Author
Series
Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet: preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Esteemed aunt of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, generous patroness of Mr. William Collins, a woman of rank who rules over the estate of Rosings Park with an unimpeachable sense of propriety-who would dare?...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiv, 353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called "The End of History." Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN's air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a "1939 moment." History never ended-it barely paused-and theglobal order as we have known it is now gone. Great powers are reinvigorated and determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as it escalates, this new order will affect everyone across...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization.When we first meet Paul Bunyan-legendary larger-than-life lumberjack and classic figure from American mythology-he is still just a man, and one down on his luck. With a load of family debts on his...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (1172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
Olivia returns home, her health restored. Ben and Cindy welcome another Walton into the world. Cousin Rose and her grandchildren fill empty rooms in the Walton home. Mary Ellen and Erin challenge scoffing men in a horse race. Jim-Bob graduates from high school and makes a decision that fills the family with profound pride.
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