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Marie Brennan begins a thrilling new fantasy series in A Natural History of Dragons, combining adventure with the inquisitive spirit of the Victorian Age. You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study...

What if I told you that the largest radioactive accident happened in Brazil, not in Chernobyl? In Cesium 137, a summary of the real nightmare in Goiânia, the reader will find the report of the biggest accident with a radioactive source ever to occur in the world. Many readers and students know about the nuclear accident that occurred in Chernobyl, but they may not know that, a year later, in 1987, in the city of Goiânia, in Brazil, an accident as shocking as that in Chernobyl occurred. In this book, the author, Leandro Luiz, who is a physicist, explains in a clear and summarized way about...

Breastfeeding Doesn't Have To Suck: A Practical Guide Comprehensive Guidance: Navigate from birth through early feeding challenges with expert advice and real-life experiences. Realistic Approach: Addressing the pressure and concerns faced by today's mothers with balanced insights. Expert Insight: Insights from lactation consultants and current research to inform your breastfeeding journey. Overcoming Challenges: Strategies to combat nipple damage, manage milk supply anxieties, and handle formula guilt. Practical Tips: From latch techniques to building a sustainable milk supply, practical ...

For fans of Tell Me Everything and Heartwood, Where the Water Meets the Sky is the story of a brave young woman seeking wholeness and love in the untamed forests of Michigan’s upper peninsula—and answers about a fire that took away everything. On a night in January, on the Garden Peninsula...

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of...

Over thousands of years, the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of Indigenous people who regarded "the great river" with awe and respect, adorning its banks with astonishing spiritual earthworks. But European settlers and American pioneers had a different vision: the river was a foe to conquer. In this landmark work of natural history, Boyce Upholt tells the epic story of human attempts to own and contain the Mississippi River, from Thomas Jefferson's expansionist land hunger through today's era of environmental concern

An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything by Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of...

Sequel to the New York Times bestseller Amari and the Night Brothers! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York Times and Indie bestselling Supernatural Investigations trilogy—perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi...

In a national contest, readers voted and decided that the next I Survived topic will be the Great Chicago Fire, 1871! In the next book of the I Survived series, one boy will struggle to stay alive as the great city of Chicago burns.

Giant earthquakes and tsunamis devastate western Oregon every 300 to 600 years. The last one hit in 1700, so we're due anytime. This informative, entertaining book tells the stories of Oregon's past floods, fires, and eruptions - including the Vanport Flood, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, and the Columbus Day Windstorm. Then it investigates the cycles behind our natural disasters and takes a look at what may happen when the next "Big One" strikes.

J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there? At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. 

Activate Your Faith, Experience the Impossible So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.”Mark 11:22 Power. Everyone wants it. The masses are chasing after it. Few ever access it. Even fewer experience it as a lifestyle. The only vehicle for authentic spiritual power—the Church—must awaken to what it already possesses and start activating it: Faith. Let this awakening begin with you! If anyone should be living out a power-full lifestyle, it should be the Spirit-empowered, faith-filled believer in Jesus Christ. In Greater Than Magic, author Becky Dvorak reveals through ...

In the Labyrinth of Drakes, the thrilling new audiobook in the acclaimed fantasy series from Marie Brennan, the glamorous Lady Trent takes her adventurous explorations to the deserts of Akhia. Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent's expedition...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Stranger Times - winner of the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! Love can be a truly terrible thing. Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead. Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has...

In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC’s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history—a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today’s new age of extreme weather. On the...

The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story...

The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennan's Tropic of Serpents . . . Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that...

What if the most powerful solutions for the crises of modern life are actually found . . . in our past? We see it in headlines, in trendlines, in our own lives: We’ve never been more anxious, more divided, or more lost. The problem isn’t that we lack solutions. It’s that we abandoned the...

A beautifully lyrical memoir and examination of natural music that will leave you hearing—and seeing—nature as never before. "A passionate amalgam of science and autobiography." —New York Times Book Review Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in...