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The vinyl frontier : the story of the golden record
by Jonathan Scott
Tells the whole story of how the Record of music, sounds and pictures that painted a picture of Earth for any alien races that may come into contact with NASA’s Voyager probe was created, from NASA’s project proposal to the moment Carl Sagan and his team watched the Record rocket off into space.
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The heartland : an American history
by Kristin L Hoganson
The author of Consumers' Imperium presents a scholarly history of the concept of the American heartland that challenges popular misconceptions while connecting regional realities to evolving debates about identity, community, immigration, global power and food.
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The dreamt land : chasing water and dust across California
by Mark Arax
A journalist with roots in Central Valley, California, farming chronicles the battles over water that led to a unique distribution system that was built in the 1940s but is straining to keep up with the state's modern growth.
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Endeavour : the ship that changed the world
by Peter Moore
Traces the story of the Enlightenment-era ship that Darwin credited with adding a hemisphere to the civilized world, discussing its first charting of New Zealand, survival throughout major military engagements and representation of culture, trade and imperialism.
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Eat, cook, L.A. : notes and recipes from the City of Angels
by Aleksandra Crapanzano
An intimate culinary portrait of Los Angeles today--a city now recognized among food lovers for its booming, vibrant, international restaurant landscape --with 100 recipes from its restaurants, juice bars, coffee shops, cocktail lounges, food trucks, and hole-in-the-wall gems.
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Downriver : into the future of water in the West
by Heather Hansman
The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles and has been stopped up by dams, slaked off by irrigation, and dried up by cities. Former raft guide and environmental reporter Heather Hansman paddles the river from source to confluence to see what the experience might teach her about the present and future of water in the West.
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