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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Author: Charles C. Mann
ISBN-10: 1400032059
ISBN-13: 9781400032051
Published: 2006-10-10
Publisher: Vintage
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In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.
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Zeitoun (Vintage)
Author: Dave Eggers
ISBN-10: 0307387941
ISBN-13: 9780307387943
Published: 2010-06-15
Publisher: Vintage
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The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.A New York Times Notable Book An O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of the YearA Huffington Post Best Book of the Year A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Decade
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Green for Life
Author: Victoria Boutenko
ISBN-10: 0970481969
ISBN-13: 9780970481962
Published: 2005-10-20
Publisher: Raw Family Publishing
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In search of the perfect human diet, Victoria Boutenko compares the standard American diet with the diet of wild chimpanzees. Chimpanzees share an estimated 99.4% of genes with humans, but their diet is dramatically different from ours. The most glaring difference is that chimpanzees consume significantly more green leaves than humans. Victoria developed a series of greens smoothies that enable anyone to consume the necessary amount of greens in a very palatable way.
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Author: Jared Diamond
ISBN-10: 0713998628
ISBN-13: 9780713998627
Published: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Group
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Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
Author: Logan Marshall
ISBN-10: 1153687364
ISBN-13: 9781153687362
Published: 2010-03-06
Publisher: General Books LLC
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Book Description:
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Titanic (Steamship); Shipwrecks; Travel / Essays
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Author: Michael Pollan
ISBN-10: 0375760393
ISBN-13: 9780375760396
Published: 2002-05-28
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
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The Prepper's Pocket Guide: 101 Easy Things You Can Do to Ready Your Home for a Disaster
Author: Bernie Carr
ISBN-10: 1569759294
ISBN-13: 9781569759295
Published: 2011-07-12
Publisher: Ulysses Press
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BE PREPAREDBE SAFEFrom California earthquakes and Rocky Mountain wildfires to Midwest floods and Atlantic hurricanes, you can’t escape that inevitable day when catastrophe strikes your home town — but you can be prepared! Offering a simple DIY approach, this book breaks down the vital steps you should take into 101 quick, smart and inexpensive projects: #6 Make a Master List of Passwords#16 Calculate How Much Water You Need#33 Start a Food Storage Plan for $5 a Week#60 Make a Safe from a Hollowed-out Book#77 Assemble an Inexpensive First Aid kit#89 Learn to Cook Without Electricity#94 Pack a Bug-out Bag
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ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE: A Year of Food Life
Author: Barbara (with Steven L. Hopp & Camille Kingsolver) Kingsolver
ISBN-10: 0571233570
ISBN-13: 9780571233571
Published: 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Author: Erik Larson
ISBN-10: 0375708278
ISBN-13: 9780375708275
Published: 2000-07-11
Publisher: Vintage
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National BestsellerSeptember 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devestating personal tragedy.Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.
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