Specter fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress.
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Author: Specter, MichaelSummary:Genre: Informational works
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Author: Greene, RobertSummary:
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in...
Genre: Political science, Psychology -
Author: Wexler, DjangoSummary:
Military might and arcane powers clash in Wexler's fifth action-packed Shadow Campaigns novel. The Beast, the ancient demon imprisoned beneath Elysium for a thousand years, has been loosed on the...
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Author: Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus...
Genre: Classic fiction, Road fiction -
Author: Petterson, PerSummary:
Sixty-seven-year-old Trond Sander lives secluded in a far corner of Norway. Casting his mind back to 1948, he recalls a horse stealing prank with his best friend that turned tragic and changed his...
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Author: Bausum, AnnSummary:
The story of America has always been shaped by people from all corners of the Earth who came in search of a better life and a brighter future. Immigration remains one of the critical topics in...
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Author: Watson, LarrySummary:
The American West is bestselling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has created his most vivid, genuine antihero yet in Calvin Sidey, a man stuck in a myth. Calvin Sidey...
Genre: Western fiction -
Author: McCarthy, CormacSummary:
In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a...
Genre: Western fiction, Bildungsromans -
Author: Ray, ShannSummary:
As Evelynne Lowry, the daughter of a copper baron, comes of age in early 20th century Montana, the lives of horses dovetail with the lives of people and her own quest for womanhood becomes...
Genre: Western fiction -
Author: Johansen, IrisSummary:
Photojournalist Bess Grady arrives in a sleepy tropical town for a well-deserved vacation, but she finds that conspiracy and murder--not rest and relaxation--are on the agenda.
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Author: Hansen, EricSummary:
Outfitted with a pair of ratty sand shoes and a knapsack full of trade goods, Eric Hansen set off to cross the rainforest of Borneo, one of the last places on earth largely untouched by Western...
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Author: Wexler, DjangoSummary:
Fourth in the "audacious and subversive"* Shadow Campaigns novels, following The Price of Valor, The Shadow Throne, and the acclaimed The Thousand Names. After their defeats at the hands of...
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Author: Wexler, DjangoSummary:
Anyone can plot a coup or fire an assassin' s bullet. But in a world of muskets and magic, it takes considerably more to seize the throne. The ailing King of the Vordan lies on his deathbed. When...
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Author: Wexler, DjangoSummary:
In the latest Shadow Campaigns novel, Django Wexler continues his "epic fantasy of military might and magical conflict" following The Shadow Throne and The Thousand Names, as the realm of Vordan...
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Author: Thornley, ScottSummary:
Detective Superintendent MacNeice is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife's grave when he's called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies...