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What do readers say about Enigma?
bletchley park code breakersa clever little mysterycompelling and convincing stylebreaking the nazi code"LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE."
-The Washington Post Book World
England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans'... Read more about Enigma
A ceaseless Siberian wind with nothing to blunt its edge for a thousand miles whipped off the North Sea and swept low across the Fens. It rattled the signs to the air-raid shelters in Trinity New Cour...
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What do readers say about Great Tales from English History?
very straight-forward and directengaging and accessiblea good bedside book3-5 page chaptersWith insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England - from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman.
The greatest historians are vivid storytelle... Read more about Great Tales from English History
THE FIRST HISTORY BOOK THAT I REMEMBER reading with pleasure was a stout, blue, exuberantly triumphalist volume, Our Island Story - A History of England for Boys and Girls by H. E. Marshall. It had a ...
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What do readers say about Stiff?
casual one-to-one tonehighly informative and amusingdead human bodiesmoderately engaging pop science"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."-Entertainment Weekly
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two tho... Read more about Stiff
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new h...
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What do readers say about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?
fluid and accessiblebioethics and racethought-provoking in the extremefirst person narration#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"The story of modern medicine and bioethics-and, indeed, race relations-is refracted beautifully, and movingly."-Entertainment Weekly
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On January 29, 1951, David Lacks sat behind the wheel of his old Buick, watching the rain fall. He was parked under a towering oak tree outside Johns Hopkins Hospital with three of his children—two st...
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What do readers say about Guns, Germs, and Steel?
smooth and articulateinformative and thought-provokingwidely read and popularstraight forward argumentWhy did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental f... Read more about Guns, Germs, and Steel
ASUITABLE STARTING POINT FROM WHICH TO COMPARE historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C.* This date corresponds approximately to the beginnings of village life in a few...
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What do readers say about The Body?
deft and humorous proselightly and with humourfrom birth, to deathhuman physiology and illnessesBill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body-how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body mad... Read more about The Body
LONG AGO, WHEN I was a junior high school student in Iowa, I remember being taught by a biology teacher that all the chemicals that make up a human body could be bought in a hardware store for $5.00 o...
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What do readers say about Bonk?
informative and wittyhumorous and informativeentertaining and informativefolksy, jokey toneA New York Times Bestseller
"Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It's compulsively readable." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
InBonk ?the best-selling author ofStiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on t... Read more about Bonk
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What do readers say about The Emperor of All Maladies?
history of medicinecancer and deathinspiring and well-writtenexhaustive in scopeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is "an extraordinary achievement" (The New Yorker)-a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer-from its first documented appearances thous... Read more about The Emperor of All Maladies
Had Farber asked any of the pediatricians circulating in the wards above him about the likelihood of developing an antileukemic drug, they would have advised him not to bother trying. Childhood leukem...
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What do readers say about 1491?
clear and well writteninteresting and informativea compelling surveyeuropeans are non-existent1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. It was the 2006 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best cre... Read more about 1491
The seeds of this book date back, at least in part, to 1983, when I wrote an article for Science about a NASA program that was monitoring atmospheric ozone levels. In the course of learning about the ...
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What do readers say about Freakonomics?
casual and straightforward storytellingeverything on the planethard evidence based analysisinteresting and informativeWhich is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?
What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
How much do parents really matter?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical ... Read more about Freakonomics
Imagine for a moment that you are the manager of a day-care center. You have a clearly stated policy that children are supposed to be picked up by 4 p.m. But very often parents are late. The result: a...
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