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"This eye-opening book by the author of the National Book Award-winning Whole Earth Catalog persuasively details a new approach to our stewardship of the planet. Lifelong ecologist and futurist Stewart Brand relies on scientific rigor to shatter...

"Set against the fading light of early-1980s Hollywood, our deeply flawed, bigoted, closeted antihero Elliot Weiner is a historian--Harvard BA, Columbia PhD--with a passion for Morris dancing and Warren Harding, "the shallowest President in...

"A portrait of a young boy, who keeps passing exams -- and of a changing England in the 1960s and 1970s. The only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by memories of the Depression and the Second...

"Life thrives in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth's crust -- from methane seeps in the ocean floor to the highest reaches of Arctic permafrost -- and it is unlike anything seen on the surface. Intraterrestrials shares what scientists are...