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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
by Barry Holstun Lopez

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"Barry Lopez won the 1986 National Book Award for Arctic Dreams. A more accurate test, though, for the true quality of a book is how well it wears over time. And though it may yet be too soon to conclude, Arctic Dreams appears to have taken its place as...
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Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 2 the Defining Year
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Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 2 the Defining Year
by Blanche Wiesen Cook

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In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook profiles the complete Eleanor Roosevelt: an adventurous, romantic woman, devoted wife and mother, and visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands counter to her husband's policies...
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story from Deep Africa to the Heart of Paris
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story from Deep Africa to the Heart of Paris
by Michael Allin

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It was the Age of Enlightenment. And in Paris, a gentle, wide-eyed stranger was all the rage. In 1826, a twelve-foot giraffe, captured in the Sudan, shipped down the Nile, carried across the Mediterranean in a ship's hold, was now walking across...
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Fore
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Fore
by Mark J Plotkin

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For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves...
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes

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David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's...
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Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
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Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
by J Anthony Lukas

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Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged...
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