Superpower Interrupted by Michael Schuman, 2020

The Chinese History of the World

This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again."

We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it always had, but briefly lost.

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The Worst of Times by Paul B. Wignall, 2015

Two hundred and sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst—the end-Permian extinction—wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, may have played in causing these global catastrophes.

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Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement 3e by Miranda Schreurs & Elim Papadakis, 2019

There are very serious environmental problems facing the planet. Biodiversity loss has reached unprecedented levels. Climate change is progressing so rapidly that within this century we are likely to see substantial sea level rise. There has been dramatic loss of tropical rainforests. Plastic pollution is killing wildlife and polluting our oceans

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The Ugly Renaissance by Alexander Lee, 2014

Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty

A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the dazzling artwork of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and more. Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance.

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The Heart of Trauma by Bonnie Badenoch

Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

How each of us can become a therapeutic presence in the world.
Images and sounds of war, natural disasters, and human-made devastation explicitly surround us and implicitly leave their imprint in our muscles, our belly and heart, our nervous systems, and the brains in our skulls.

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Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention, 2e by Victor R. Preedy, 2020

Investigates the benefits of nuts and seeds in health and disease prevention using an organizational style that will provide easy-access to information that supports identifying treatment options and the development of symptom-specific functional foods.

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David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work by Jack Nisbet, 2012

An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest

During a meteoric career that spanned from 1825 to 1834, David Douglas made the first systematic collections of flora and fauna over many parts of the greater Pacific Northwest.

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Existential Politics:
Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them
by Jessica F. Green

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