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The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang A Primate's Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky 1491 by Charles C. Mann In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America by Eric R. Eaton Rational Choice in an Uncertain World by Reid Hastie No Surrender by Hiroo Onoda Cambodia by Henry Kamm The Swamp by Michael Grunwald
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
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Instead, I defer to the sentiments of Benjamin Franklin. Upon the occasion of history’s first manned flights—in the 1780s, aboard the Montgolfier brothers’ hot-air balloons—someone asked Franklin what use he saw in such frivolity. “What ...more
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