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Fight of the Century - Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon (Editor); Geraldine Brooks; Yaa Gyasi; Sergio De La Pava; Dave Eggers; Timothy Egan; Li Yiyun; Meg Wolitzer; Ann Patchett; Héctor Tobar; Aleksandar Hemon; Elizabeth Strout; Ayelet Waldman (Editor); Rabih Alameddine; Moriel Rothman-Zecher; Jonathan Lethem; Salman Rushdie; Lauren Groff; Jennifer Egan; Scott Turow; Morgan Parker; Victor Lavalle; Michael Cunningham; Dave Cole (Foreword by); Neil Gaiman; Jesmyn Ward; Moses Sumney; George Saunders; Marlon James; William Finnegan; Anthony Doerr; C. J. Anders; Brenda J. Childs; Andrew Sean Greer; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Louise Erdrich; Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; Jacqueline woodson; Brit Bennett; Steven Okazaki; David Handler
Category: History
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. O ...Show more
Hoda Afshar - A Curve Is a Broken Line by Isobel Parker Philip (As told to, Editor); Behrouz Boochani (As told to); Taous Dahmani (As told to); Shahram. Khosravi (As told to); Sarah Sentilles (As told to); Andrew Brooks (As told to); Astrid Lorange (As told to);)
Category: General Photography
Through her photographs, Hoda Afshar examines the politics of image making. Deeply researched yet emotionally sensitive, her bodies of work are a form of activism as much as an artistic inquiry. Alert to the duplicity of the documentary image—to its imperfect relationship to fact—Afshar signposts this e ...Show more
In the Blink of an Eye by Andrew Parker
Category: Science & Natural History
'In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.' H. G. Wells' famous dictum tells us something that may seem self-evident: sight matters. But imagine for a moment that the country of the blind is in fact the whole world, 544 million years ago. It's a world where life is primitive and aimless, an ...Show more
In the Blink of an Eye - How Vision Kick-Started the Big Bang of Evolution by Andrew Parker
Category: Science
The Cambrian explosion is the "big bang" of evolution--a period of less than five million years during which life on Earth rapidly developed both armaments and defenses. Animals suddenly became both hunters and the hunted, and the number of animal groups with hard body parts mushroomed from three to 38. ...Show more
In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Kick-Started the Big Bang of evolution by Andrew Parker
Category: Science & Natural History
The Cambrian explosion is the 'big bang' of evolution - a period of just 5 million years during which life on Earth rapidly developed both armaments and defences, and animals suddenly became both hunters and hunted. But why did the explosion happen when it did? Gound-breaking, readable and accessible, O ...Show more
Naturally Brilliant Colour by Andrew Parker
Category: Art and Design
The first book to showcase art made using nature's most powerfully intense colors. For thousands of years, the raw materials of the natural world have supplied the vivid colors found in art, with hues drawn from sources including metal ores, plant roots, and even animal waste. Naturally Brilliant Co ...Show more
Plankton - A Worldwide Guide by Tom Jackson; Andrew Hirst (Editor); Jennifer Parker
Category: Flora & Fauna
A richly illustrated guide to the marvelously diverse plankton of the world and their fundamental role in planetary food webs Plankton are the unsung heroes of planet Earth. Passive drifters through the world's seas, oceans, and freshwater environments, most are invisible or very small, but some are ...Show more
Seven Deadly Colours by Andrew Parker
Category: Science & Natural History
'To suppose that the eye ...should have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree' - thus wrote Charles Darwin in "On The Origin Of Species". The eye's 'perfection', he found, was the one problem he could not resolve with his theory of evolution by natural select ...Show more
The Genesis Enigma by Andrew Parker
Category: Spirituality
The author argues that the reason the Genesis account is strangely ordered is, amazingly, that is percisely reflects the order of events as we now understand them. The latest reinterpretation of Earth's ancient rocks and fossils and their comparisons with animals today has completed our understanding of ...Show more
The Genesis Enigma : Why the First Book of the Bible Is Scientifically Accurate by Andrew Parker
Category: Reference
"The single Darwinian bicentenary publication most liable to reconcile religion and science." -Booklist (starred review) Andrew Parker is known within the scientific community as the man who best explained the "big bang" in the diversity of life that occurred over 500 million years ago. Stimulated by ...Show more
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