The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code
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The genetic code is the Rosetta Stone by which we interpret the 3.3 billion letters of human DNA,...
The Presidency of George H.W. Bush
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Shortly after George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1989, John Robert...
The Still Point of the Turning World: A Mother's Story
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a new chapter detailing the events that have taken place since...
Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction
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This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the...
Updike
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Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures...
Upon A Trailing Edge: Risk, the Heart and the Air Pilot
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Four out of five fatal aircraft accidents are due to human error. Three out of five are due to pilot...
When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible
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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland - now...
A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
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Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one...
A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
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The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor...
Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man
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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of...