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Eric Wilson Box Set
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Keep It Fake
Shoot straight from the hip. Tell it like it is. Keep it real. We love these commands, especially in America, because they appeal to what we want to believe: that there's an authentic self to which we can be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, we're inventing identities on Facebook, paying thousands for plastic surgeries, and tuning in to news that simply verifies our opinions. Reality bites, after all, and becoming disillusioned is a downer. In his new book Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, Eric G. Wilson investigates this phenomenon. Hedraws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, film, literature, and his own life to explore the possibility that...
After Cooling
This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. As he traces the refrigerant’s life span from its invention in the 1920s—when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress—to ...
The Ghost of Lunenburg Manor
A fire burning on the sea...icy fingers in the night...a dog that suddenly won't go near its master's bedroom...a host of strange characters with name like Black Dog, Henneyberry, and Roger Eliot-Stanton... These are the baffling ingredients of the spine-chilling mystery that begins when professor Zinck invites Tom Austen and his sister, Liz to visit a haunted house. Join the teen sleuths in the ancient hallways of Lunenburg Manor...if you dare.
