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What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche
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Matthew Gavin Frank
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Dad Books: a flowchart.
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The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice
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A Place of Healing: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Medicinal Plants of the Adirondacks
"If we value the medicine the land offers us so generously, we must become medicine for the land."
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Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War
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It’s the Most Important Muscle in Your Body and You Don’t Even Know What It’s Called
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Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange
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"Sensitive and powerful The women in em This Is Where the Serpent Lives em are…"
