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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.

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 …

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 …

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

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.

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

God may give the toughest battles to the strongest warriors, but not always.

Hollywood by Gore Vidal

America moves on from territorial colonialism, taking its first steps towards global soft colonialism via Woodrow Wilson and Hollywood.

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Vignettes from the first Trump presidential transition after firing the transition team and throwing the transition plans out the window.

A Pluralistic Universe by William James

Lectures on the advantages of using radical empiricism (pluralism) when trying to relate entities in the absolute to the absolute.