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Nathan Pyle
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Strange Planet
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New York
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HarperCollins
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2019
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#comicbooks #humor
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Strange Planet is a collection of cartoons from Nathan Pyle. It
pokes fun at various aspects of human life through the eyes of
some aliens.
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Thanbut
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Principles of Thanbut
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Brooklyn
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FSG
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1887
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Thanbut
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The 10 principles of Thanbut.
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Ballard, J.G.
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High rise
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New York
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Liveright
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2012
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#dystopian #postapocalyptic
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The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise
building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent
chaos. High-Rise inquires into the ways in which modern social
and technological landscapes could alter the human psyche in
provocative and hitherto unexplored ways.
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Dickson, Paul
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Sputnik: The Shock of the Century
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New York
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Walker
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2001
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Supported by groundbreaking, original research and many recently
declassified documents, Sputnik offers a fascinating profile of the
early American and Soviet space programs and a strikingly revised
picture of the politics and personalities behind the facade of
America's fledgling efforts to get into space.
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Griffin, John Howard
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Black Like Me
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New York
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Signet
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1996
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#race #civilrights
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In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line was etched in blood.
Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using
medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his
privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised
world of an unemployed black man.
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Diamond, Jared
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?
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New York
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Viking
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2012
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#popularscience #culturalpsychology
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It explores what people living in the Western world can learn from
traditional societies, including differing approaches to conflict
resolution, treatment of the elderly, childcare, the benefits of
multilingualism and a lower salt intake.
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Foer, Jonathan Safran
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Eating Animals
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New York
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Little, Brown & Company
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2009
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#veganism #vegetarianism #foodindustry #nonfiction
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Foer presents the book as a way for him to decide whether or not
his newborn child should eat meat. He discusses what eating meat
has meant in the past, and what it means today.
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Hawking, Stephen
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A Brief History of Time
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New York
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Bantam Books
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1998
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#universe #space #astrophysics
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Hawking writes in non-technical terms about the structure, origin, development and eventual fate
of the Universe, which is the object of study of astronomy and modern physics. He talks about
basic concepts like space and time, basic building blocks that make up the Universe (such as
quarks) and the fundamental forces that govern it (such as gravity).
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