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Books: Science and Environment
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The biography is an engaging, impressive work of scholarship about the sage.
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The country takes a back seat to Africa when it comes to world awareness of the disease. Essayists reveal a culture of repression and shame.
BOOKS
'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' outlines five problems the U.S. faces because of its dependence on fossil fuels.
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'Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy' by Bonnie J. Gisel; 'Drafting Culture: A Social History of Architectural Graphic Standards' by George Barnett Johnston; 'Classical Ch
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The author builds an 'Eco Shed,' and it costs about $90,000. Environmentally friendly? Mostly, but it ain't cheap.
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How a family tragedy cast a long shadow over one writer's life.
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A paleontologist takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of a London landmark.
ASTRAL WEEKS
The first posthumously published work by Clarke, co-written with a fellow legend, looks at sexuality, aliens and a long-ago mathematical formula.
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The destruction of Lisbon by a major earthquake in 1755 and its repercussions in Enlightenment Europe.
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A mathematician shares his love of numbers, grids and graphs.
The Writing Life
In 'The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces From an Active Life' and 'American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau,' the writer keeps our eyes on the argument.
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Matthew Parker's book tells the epic story of the building of the Panama Canal.