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Mary’s 2020 Year in Books
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The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond
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2008
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Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move
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2017
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River Music
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2015
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After Surfing Ocean Beach
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2004
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The Violets of Usambara
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2008
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Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future
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2020
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Green City: People, Nature, Urban Life
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2006
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Frenemy Nations: Love and Hate Between Neighbo(u)ring States
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2019
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Making Waves: The Continuing Portuguese Adventure
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2011
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Recreating Eden: A Natural History of Botanical Gardens
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2001
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Saturday Photo: Let's Do Lunch at the Atwater Library
Construction goes on despite Covid-19, concrete and cement continue to be made--with all that implies for global warming and quality of life.I'll be talking about that and about my new book Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future at 12:30 p.m. EST Thursday, January 28, 2021. It'll be one of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre's lunchtime series--by Zoom, of course.
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During the end of the Eocene and the beginning of the Oligocene (34–23 million years ago), the first evidence of anthropoids (a suborder of primates that include monkeys, apes and humans) begins to appear in the fossil record.
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Hello, Mary! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Have a wonderful weekend. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Thanks for your friend request. I'm happy to accept. Your review of Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad was very informative. I recently read a long review of several such books and also ordered Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew and Life After Baghdad: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950�2000. At first I was going to stop there until I saw your review (and since Amazon Marketplace had them used!).
