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| Accidental Inventions: The Chance Discoveries That Changed Our Lives
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Birgit Krols.
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| Publisher: Insight. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781608870738. Daedalus Item Code: 31012 |
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| As difficult as it might be to imagine a world without Coca-Cola, Post-it notes, or Velcro, these inventions have one thing in common: they were invented accidentally, usually while trying to develop ... (Read More)
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| The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being
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Sherwin B. Nuland.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812975413. Daedalus Item Code: 31262 |
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| In his landmark 1994 National Book Award winner How We Die, surgeon Sherwin Nuland altered our perception of the end of life. Here Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds ... (Read More)
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| The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
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Dave Eggers, ed. Ray Bradbury, intro.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547595962. Daedalus Item Code: 31543 |
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| For 2012, the highly popular annual contribution to the Best American series from McSweeney's editor and part-time pirate Dave Eggers features an introduction by the late Ray Bradbury on the ... (Read More)
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| A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents—And Ourselves
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Jane Gross.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307472403. Daedalus Item Code: 29433 |
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| When Jane Gross—a longtime New York Times expert on the subject of elder care—suddenly became caretaker for her 85-year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that even she had never ... (Read More)
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| The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning
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Peter Trachtenberg.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316158794. Daedalus Item Code: 13766 |
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| What does it mean to suffer? What enables some people to emerge from tragedy while others are spiritually crushed by it? And why do so many Americans think of suffering as something that should ... (Read More)
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| Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being
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Linda Graham.
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| Publisher: New World Library. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781608681297. Daedalus Item Code: 38756 |
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| Resilience is the ability to face and handle life's challenges, from everyday disappointments to extraordinary disasters, and it is an innate function in the brain. Over time we learn unhelpful ... (Read More)
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| The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
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Greg Pahl.
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| Publisher: Chelsea Green. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781933392127. Daedalus Item Code: 00652 |
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| In the wake of weather and seismic disasters and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever accept global warming as a reality, and reckon that the peak of the petrochemical ... (Read More)
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| Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
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Lester R. Brown.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393344158. Daedalus Item Code: 29349 |
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| Food is the new oil, says Lester Brown; and land is the new gold. The author of the Plan B series of books, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, and "one of the pioneers and heroes of global ... (Read More)
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| How to Attract the Wombat
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Will Cuppy. Ed Nofziger, illus.
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| Publisher: Sutton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780750946100. Daedalus Item Code: 13365 |
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| The humorist behind The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, Will Cuppy also produced three classic "How To" books, including this one. It examines curious creatures—Birds Who Can't Even ... (Read More)
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| Ifferisms: An Anthology of Aphorisms That Begin with the Word If
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Mardy Grothe.
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| Publisher: Collins Reference. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061672309. Daedalus Item Code: 22313 |
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| So many aphorisms—pithy, often witty observations about the human experience—begin with the word "If," that Mardy Grothe has dubbed this subcategory "ifferisms," and presents here a highly ... (Read More)
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| King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
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J. North Conway.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781599215389. Daedalus Item Code: 22925 |
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| On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
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