Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment
 Author: Gerald Weissmann Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 500 EAN: 9781934137000 ISBN: 1934137006 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2007-04-01 [... more]
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Awkward: A Detour
Brilliant and Awkward: Awkward, A Detour by Mary Cappello is a brilliant, far-ranging meditation on the many aspects of awkwardness. Cappello takes the reader on journeys through Rome, Sicily, London, Moscow, and places in Canada and the United States as [... more]
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Doctored Drawings
Author: Mark Podwal Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9781934137024 ISBN: 1934137022 Number Of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2007-05-01 [... more]
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The Cure
Illuminating, shifting points of view: An extraordinary story of a family in the early 1940s, this novel's gift is its ability to move its point of view from one character to the next, revealing each one to be vulnerable, human, complex. We see the [... more]
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Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and ...
A matter-of-fact accounting that does not excuse or justify immoral behavior: Professor of psychology and proponent of sociobiology David P. Barash presents Natural Selections, a matter-of-fact look at how human biology and evolution affect human [... more]
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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State ...
Psychiatry and polemics do not mix well: The book consists of a conundrum of stories, as deducted by the authors from the suitcase contents (!) and case notes of former long-term patients in a state mental health institution. The authors' agenda becomes [... more]
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The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
Profoundly Moving: A 2008 anthology of ~90 short stories, essays, and poems drawn from the NYU School of Medicine's semi-annual literary journal. Each entry deals in some way with illness or coping, although sometimes minimally and often peripherally. [... more]
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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State ...
Middle of the Road: Not one review before mine gave a score of "average". Folks either really like this book or absolutely hate it. The numerous errors and typos were easy to spot. The authors quickly established that they had "an axe to [... more]
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Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic ...
Science, poetry and personal experience in a unique weave: As a classicist and poet, I am shy - if not wary - of "hard science". I stumbled upon this book by accident, browsing the non-fiction shelves in the public library. It is unique! I have [... more]
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I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, ...
I Thought I Could Fly...An Memorable Read: This book is beautiful, wrenching, inspiring and brave. The extraordinary challenges of mental illness are tackled with depth and grace. The stories are real and compelling. They provide a window into the day to [... more]
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The Leper Compound
An excellent debut: Paula Nangle's debut novel, The Leper Compound, is a book I won't soon forget. I'm tempted to call it a novel-in-stories as each chapter is perfectly self-contained and yet the whole does provide one full narrative. Regardless, it is [... more]
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A Proper Knowledge
Read 'A Proper Knowledge': If, when you purchase a novel, you are hoping that upon its completion you will feel as though you have spent hours with actual human beings, possibly even human beings who you prefer the company of to those people you know [... more]
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