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An award-winning guide to reducing your personal carbon footprint, one dollar (and bitcoin) at a time. Calculate your carbon footprint: with an item-by-item breakdown. Meet your company's carbon goals: using the latest research. Make manageable ch...

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';Lively and enlightening.'Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post';[A] zippy guide to better health.'Publisher's Weekly STARRED ReviewDiscover why humans were designed for dancingand learn how to boogie for better healthwith two neuroscientists as your...

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More than 100,000 copies sold of the original edition in North America, and more than 4 million copies have sold world-wide in all languages. There have been many discoveries about the Gut-Brain since 2013 when Enders first wrote Gut (published in...

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For readers of Late Migrations and Vesper Flights From the acclaimed author of How to Catch a Mole, this meditative memoir explores the wisdom of plants, the joys of manual labor, and the natural cycle of growth and decay that runs through both th...

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A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn essential read.The Washington PostEssential This book belongs on the shelf next to Merchants of Doubt, Dark Money, and Kochland.Roy Scranton, author of Learning to Die in the AnthropoceneThe petroleum indu...

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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DR. JASON FUNG *; ';The doctor who invented intermittent fasting.'The Daily Mail';Dr. Fung reveals how [type 2 diabetes] can be prevented and also reversed using natural dietary methods instead of medications...

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A renowned sexologist shows us we're not alone when it comes to problems of sex and love. Ann-Marlene Henning has improved the sex lives of thousands through her TV show and advice blog. Now, readers can experience her sought-after talk therapy in...

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Who was the first 20-season NHLer? What goalie gave up Gordie Howe's 500th and Bobby Orr's first goals? What is the fastest time one player has scored four goals?

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Which batting crown champion hit the most homers? Who twice stole a record seven bases in a World Series? Who was the youngest pitcher to toss a perfect game?

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A hockey trivia maestro tests fans's knowledge and competitive instincts in a unique book composed of crosswords, word jumbles, fill-in-the-blanks, and matching column puzzles.

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Red Hot Hockey Trivia lets you face off with quizmaster Don Weekes, master of hockey lore and author of over 19 books on hockey trivia. Filled with an action-packed assortment of multiple-choice and true-or-false questions, crosswords, pencil game...

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Combining rich period detail, gripping narrative and thrilling hockey action, Putting a Roof on Winter brilliantly explores the changing identity of a game that has become, for those who love it, the meaning of life in winter.

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Thoughtful, provocative and definitely controversial, The Beast Within is essential reading for anyone concerned about violence in our society. Clearly written, extensively researched and logically reasoned, this is a book that challenges as it in...

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Every year, a team of ex-National Hockey League players travels around North America playing hockey and raising money for charity. Known as the Legendary Heroes of Hockey, wherever they go, they sell out every game. Award-winning sports columnist ...

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Travel back in time to 1655, when sorcerers read the future in crystal balls, villagers cast spells on their neighbors, and boys studied to become wizards! You'll meet 12-year-old Isaac Newton, a schoolboy determined to master the hidden powers th...

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This tribute to an unsung part of the body collects a closetful of fascinating lore about the physical foot, foot fashion, and foot fetishism. Author Kathy Vanderlinden has collected every imaginable kind of fact and fancy about this all-important...

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In this eloquent collection, writers from the United States, Canada, the U.K., and Australia describe a personal encounter with the natural world that moved them, enhanced their understanding of nature, changed them, or was in some other way of pr...

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"A Place Between the Tides" is an evocative mix of scientific observation and personal memories that captures the tremendous vitality and vulnerability of marshlands. For every nature writer there seems to be one special place that demon...

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"My Turquoise Years" is a touching, funny, and elegantly written account of a 13-year-old girl's life. Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant had heard stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led aboard cruise ships and in...

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Elusive, seductive, otherworldly, the mermaid is one of the most resonant of female archetypes, persisting across cultures and eras. In this singular study, Amanda Adams uses poetic language and invokes a wide range of representations and discipli...

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There are many books about the processes people go through when they discover they have cancer. What makes "Flying Crooked different is the author's acceptance of the disease and its consequences. She continues to enjoy life, refuses radiothe...

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The 13 short pieces here roam widely and wildly, examining, among other things, common idiosyncrasies and the collective chaos of garden clubs, the host of psychopathologies that afflict "plants people," and obsessive-compulsive behavior...

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When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited the baths in Turkey in 1717 she was so tightly corseted that Turkish women were convinced her husband had locked her into some devious machine. Montagu's account of her journey helped bring the region into th...

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In "The Sweet Science Goes Sour," boxing writer Thomas Myler recounts some of the sport’ s most controversial fixes, fakes, and frauds. Like a ringside seat at the sport’ s greatest and most troubled bouts, the book brings to...

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Over eight visits to Paris, Deirdre Kelly has found herself -- first as a 19-year-old and then later as a budding writer, a dance critic, and a fashion reporter. Subsequent visits -- with her mother, her future husband, and later as a mother herse...

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When her mother, Rosa, begins to show signs of dementia, Caterina Edwards embarks on a myriad of journeys -- geographical, intellectual, emotional -- that turn out to be part of one journey, a search for the meaning of the past and of home. During...

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This book describes Ian McAllister's experiences over that period following two packs of wolves, one that dominates the extreme outer coastal islands, and another that lives farther inland in the heart of the temperate rainforest.McAllister, along...

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"Teenagers" reimagines the way people think about adolescents. No longer society's scourge and scapegoat, the teenager emerges from David Bainbridge's fascinating study as an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon that evokes reverence and won...

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