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Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet
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Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy PlanetGlobal Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet

Global warming is the greatest environmental threat facing humanity.
From killer heat waves and increasingly violent weather to the spread of pests and vector-borne diseases, global warming has many effects on our lives. While some are positive, most are negative. People fear potentially catastrophic consequences but there is a disturbing lack of understanding about global warming and what can be done about it.
 
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The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success
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The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic SuccessThe Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success

This is the first account of the transformation of the Turkish language in the years following 1930--probably the most extensive piece of language engineering ever attempted. The book is important both for the study of linguistic change and for the light it throws on twentieth-century Turkish politics and society.
 
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The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare
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The Cat Who Knew ShakespeareThe Cat Who Knew Shakespeare

An accident has claimed the life of the local paper's eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff out a shocking secret, but Koko's snooping may prove CATastrophic. The newest addition to the spectacular "Cat" mysteries series. Original.
 
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Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold Bujold is best known for her series of novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, a disabled interstellar spy and mercenary admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in our future. The series demonstrates Bujold's mastery of various science fiction genres and sub-genres. Earlier titles are generally firmly in the space opera tradition with no shortage of battles, conspiracies, and wild twists, while in more recent volumes Miles becomes more of a detective. In A Civil Campaign, Bujold explores yet another genre: a high-society romance with a plot that pays tribute to Georgette Heyer (as acknowledged in the dedication)
 
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