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  Immortal Bad Boys

  by Rebecca York, Rosemary Laurey, Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

  • Rated 4 stars

  purplepeace wrote:
  This was my first Bad Boy book and my first vampire book! A great introduction to both! The second story was definitely my favorite.
  
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  The Investigation

  by Stanisław Lem

  • Rated 3 stars

  Leif wrote:
  Mr. Lem is a very intelligent man whose ability to combine philosophy with compelling stories is pretty much unparalleled in the world of speculative fiction. That said, this was my least favorite of his works. Great character conversations and ideas, but I just found it a little boring. Still a cut above most authors I have read. So...recommended, but...not so much.
  
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  Adam's Curse

  by Bryan Sykes

  • Rated 4 stars

  Louisa van der Luyden wrote:
  In Adam’s Curse, Bryan Sykes zooms in on the battle of the sexes to a microscopic level: it all comes down to the Y-chromosome which is passed on from father to son, and the mitochondrial DNA which we inherit exclusively from our mothers. The first half of the book is absolutely fascinating and I enjoyed reading about the likely origins and the evolutionary advantages of sexual reproduction, how certain species gave up on sex, as well as the reproduction methods of the blue-headed...
  
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  Field Notes from a Catastrophe

  by Elizabeth Kolbert

  • Rated 4 stars

  Louisa van der Luyden wrote:
  This is not a speculative gloom-and-doom story, but a great textbook on climate change research and the current state of affairs, with clear case studies of places around the world where climate change is already affecting the lives of people. The chapter on Dutch water management and the floating houses in Maasbommel is excellently done; the 'Ruimte voor de Rivier' (Room for the River) projects of which she speaks are now well underway and set to be completed in 2015. In the few years since...
  
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  Mountains of the Middle Kingdom : exploring the high peaks of China and Tibet

  by Galen A. Rowell

  • Rated 4 stars

  Michael E wrote:
  I didn’t realize what a treasure I gained when I nabbed this at a library book sale. It looks like a coffee-table book of Himalaya mountain photos. But they aren’t just any photos. They are from a master photojournalist and serious adventurer and mountain climber. And the narrative of his trekking and climbing is of historical significance. Rowell in 1980 was among the first set of Westerners allowed access to the mountain provinces of Tibet and neighboring Chinese provinces since being...
  
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