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  • Ninety Percent of Everything

    Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

    de Rose George ...
    Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization.On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy, and so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or ... Leer más

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  • Nine Pints

    A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

    de Rose George ...
    Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A "compelling chronicle" of the science, politics, and business of blood ( The Wall Street Journal).Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don't even know their own blood type. And ... Leer más

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  • The Big Necessity

    The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

    de Rose George ...
    An "extraordinary" look at the stubborn problem of human waste disposal: "Among the best nonfiction books of the new millennium." — The New York TimesAcclaimed as "valuable and often entertaining" ( Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity defies the taboo on bodily waste—something common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not to talk about it, but we should—even those of us who take care ... Leer más

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  • Breve storia del sangue

    Traducido por Fabrizio Coppola ...
    de Rose George ...
    Il sangue porta la vita, eppure molti svengono solo a vederlo. Spesso va smaltito come un rifiuto, ma è anche un bene più prezioso del petrolio. Può salvare una persona, ma anche trasmettergli malattie mortali. Ognuno di noi ne ha circa cinque litri in corpo, eppure tanti non conoscono il proprio gruppo sanguigno. Anche l'evento biologico più demonizzato ha a che fare con il sangue: le ... Leer más

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  • Every Last Fish

    A Deep Dive into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them

    de Rose George ...
    A fresh and fascinating take on fish, the fishing industry, and our shared future, from one of our most intrepid and entertaining nonfiction writers.Slippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first time in history, humans are eating more farmed fish ... Leer más

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  • Bodyology - The Curious Science of Our Bodies

    Bodyology: The Curious Science of the Human BodyEver wondered what it's really like to be struck by lightning — what happens to your skin, nerves, heart rhythm, and brain in a split second? What it means to lose your sense of smell (anosmia), why it can vanish after illness or injury, and what recovery can look like? Whether we'll ever find a genuine cure for baldness and hair loss? Or how a ... Leer más

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  • We're All in This Together

    de George Rose ...
    You've seen them. The people with funny-looking clothes, a number pinned to their chest, and they're running. Running to where? Usually in a big circle, or in many smaller circles. Sometimes in a straight line back and forth. For hours on end. Why? Because they can. They're marathon runners.This book is about a special group of runners: endurance marathoners, those who run dozens of marathons, ... Leer más

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  • Rose Blanche

    Keeping the Past Alive

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    Rose Blanche is a Newfoundland village, founded in the 1800s. George Rose grew up there in the 1930s and 1940s, and in this memoir he paints a vivid picture of life in the outports at that time. Rose also provides a history of the community, and how he became a teacher. "Growing up in Rose Blanche was an experience I wouldn't trade for anywhere else I've seen or read about." ... Leer más

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    Vaudeville en un acte représenté, pour la première fois, à Paris, à la Gaîté Rochechouart

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    Folie militaire en un acte et deux tableaux. Personnages : 7 hommes et 4 femmes. Représentée pour la 1e fois à Paris, à Chansonia

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  • Le Désert sensible

    de Georges Rose ...
    "L’espérance sait quelque chose probablement mais ce n’est pas un savoir disent les autres on ne répond pas on obéit comme on peut." Prix de poésie du Val de Seine 1999 ... Leer más

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  • Rivages

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    Ce livre s’est vu décerner, sur manuscrit, le Prix de Poésie de la Ville d’Angers. Georges Jean, président du Jury, écrit dans la Préface : « Une des originalités de Rivages me semble précisément provenir d’une subtile ambiguïté qui mêle dans l’opacité du poème, l’univers extérieur et la nature et l’intimité de l’être, de celui qui a la parole pour tenter de rejoindre ce qu’il voit et ce qu’il est ... Leer más

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