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Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal

A study of power and change in Washington, D.C. during the middle of the twentieth century.

Sex on the Kitchen Table by Norman C. Ellstrand

An introduction to the biological facilities and strategies of plant reproduction using examples drawn from agricultural crops.

The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry M. Goldwater, L. Brent Bozell Jr

Messrs. Goldwater and Bozell outline an American conservatism for the second half of the twentieth century.

Bad Law by Elie Mystal

How repealing ten laws and one constitutional amendment would greatly improve the American way of life.

Compiler Construction by Hanspeter Mössenböck

An introduction to the theory and practice of building compilers for simple programming languages.

Theft: A Novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Members of three Tanzanian generations — traditional, transitional, modern — work through old problems at the start of the 21st …

Neurolinguistics by Giosue Baggio

How linguistic theories and studies of brain (mis)function and (dis)structure interact to produce hypotheses about human language.

The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America by Larry Tye

This is the story of three revolutionary African American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at …

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he …

From Eve to evolution by Kimberly A. Hamlin

This work provides a study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the …

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

In Victorian London Dr Jekyll, a famous scientist, seems linked with Mr Hyde, a heinous criminal. Mr Utterson, a lawyer …

The Powers That Be by David Halberstam

The Powers That Be is a 1979 book by David Halberstam about the American media. It focuses on:

CBS The …

Memory by Fergus Craik, Larry Jacoby (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series)

A review of psychological and cognitive hypotheses about the cerebral structures and functions providing memory.

Memory by Alison Winter

A history of scientific research into memory, the cultural reactions to the discoveries, and the interaction between them.