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AMERICAN HISTORY
THE FEDERALIST A Collection of Essays Written in Favor of a New Constitution by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay 650 pages DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA by Alexis de Tocqueville 928 pages THE GLORIOUS CAUSE The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff 752 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press EMPIRE OF LIBERTY A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood 800 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe 928 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson 952 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press LINCOLN by David Herbert Donald 720 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster AMERICAN COLOSSUS The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands 704 pages Publisher: Anchor THE WRIGHT BROTHERS By David McCullough 336 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB A Story of Ideas in America by Louise Menand 568 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux THE GREAT CRASH 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith 224 pages Publisher: Mariner Books THE GLORY AND THE DREAM A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 by William Manchester 1397 pages Publisher: Little Brown & Co THE MAKING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 1817-1992 by Howard H. Peckham 416 pages Publisher: University of Michigan Press A HISTORY OF ANN ARBOR by Jonathan Marwil 208 pages Publisher: University of Michigan Press WHEELS FOR THE WORLD Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress by Douglas Brinkley 880 pages Publisher: Penguin Books MY YEARS WITH GENERAL MOTORS by Alfred Sloan 496 pages Publisher: Crown Business PARTING THE WATERS America in the King Years: 1954-63 by Taylor Branch 1088 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster PILLAR OF FIRE America in the King Years: 1963-65 by Taylor Branch 768 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster HOW WE GOT HERE A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets by Andy Kessler 272 pages Publisher: HarperBusiness THE VIEW FROM THE DUGOUT The Journals of Red Rolfe, Detroit Tiger Manager 1948-1952 Edited by William M Anderson 360 pages Publisher: University of Michigan Press AMERICAN BASEBALL, VOLUME 1 From Gentleman's Sport to the Commissioner System by David Voigt 336 pages Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press THE DOCTORS MAYO by Helen Clapesattle 430 pages Publisher: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research TRUMAN by David McCullough 1120 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster AN EMPIRE OF WEALTH The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon 480 pages Publisher: Harper HOW THINGS REALLY WORK Lessons from a Life in Politics by Bill Hobby 300 pages Publisher: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History THE U.S. SUPREME COURT A Very Short Introduction By Linda Greenhouse 102 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press THE HOUSE OF MORGAN An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow 848 pages Publisher: Grove Press POLIO An American Story David M. Oshinsky 368 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press BUSINESS ADVENTURES Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks 468 pages Publisher: Open Road Media --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EUROPEAN HISTORY HIS INVENTION SO FERTILE A Life of Christopher Wren by Adrian Tinniswood 484 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE 1848-1918 by A. J. P. Taylor 674 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press GERMAN HISTORY 1770-1866 by James Sheehan 969 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press GERMANY 1866-1945 by Gordon A. Craig 848 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Life and Work by Martin Geck 752 pages Publisher: Harcourt MOZART A Life by Maynard Solomon 656 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial PETER THE GREAT His Life and World by Robert K. Massie 1136 pages Publisher: Modern Library THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 1801-1917 by Hugh Seton-Watson 840 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1905-1923 by Richard Pipes 976 pages Publisher: Vintage A HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIA by Robert Service 688 pages Publisher: Harvard University Press DREADNOUGHT Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie 1007 pages Publisher: Random House CASTLES OF STEEL Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea By Robert K. Massie 880 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books THE FIRST WORLD WAR A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard 156 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press THE PITY OF WAR Explaining World War I by Niall Ferguson 608 pages Publisher: Basic Books THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR by A. J. P. Taylor 320 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EUROPEAN JEWS Volumes 1-3 by Raul Hilberg 1,388 pages Publisher: Yale University Press --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INTEREST HOW TO READ A BOOK The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren 426 pages Publisher: Touchstone THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester 288 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press FUNDAMENTALS OF AMERICAN LAW Edited by Alan B. Morrison 736 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press THE END OF COLLEGE Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey 288 pages Publisher: Riverhead Books HOW TO WIN AT THE SPORT OF BUSINESS If I Can Do It, You Can Do It by Mark Cuban 82 pages Publisher: Diversion Books AUDIOBOOKS, LITERATURE, AND SOUND STUDIES The first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" Matthew Rubery, Editor 266 pages Publisher: Routledge COGNITIVE SURPLUS Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky 256 pages Publisher: Penguin Press SCIENCE FICTION A Very Short Introduction by David Seed 160 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press |
SCIENCE
THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS by Thomas Kuhn 226 pages Publisher: University of Chicago Press THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld 336 pages Publisher: Touchstone THE ASCENT OF MAN by Jacob Brownowski 448 pages Publisher: Little Brown & Co LEVIATHAN AND THE AIR-PUMP Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer 448 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD by John McPhee 712 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes 928 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster LONGITUDE The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel 208 pages Publisher: Walker & Company --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIFE SCIENCE ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin 720 pages WHAT IS LIFE? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell By Erwin Schrödinger 194 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press THE DOUBLE HELIX A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA By James D. Watson 256 pages Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Press THE SELFISH GENE by Richard Dawkins 384 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press THE EIGHTH DAY OF CREATION Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson 714 pages Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press THE VITAL QUESTION Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane 368 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins 480 pages Publisher: Free Press MICROBIOLOGY A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas P. Money 144 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press STEM CELLS A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Slack 144 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press THE DISCOVERY OF INSULIN Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Michael Bliss 310 pages Publisher: University Of Chicago Press VACCINATED One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit, M.D. 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial THE BIRTH OF THE CELL by Henry Harris 256 pages Publisher: Yale University Press THE MOLD IN DR FLOREY'S COAT The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax 320 pages Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. THE HOT ZONE The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston 352 pages Publisher: Anchor REGENESIS How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George M. Church & Ed Regis 304 pages Publisher: Basic Books THE DEEPER GENOME Why there is more to the human genome than meets the eye by John Parrington 288 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press THE $1,000 GENOME The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine by Kevin Davies 352 pages Publisher: Free Press MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL (5th edition) For nearly a quarter century Molecular Biology of the Cell has been the leading cell biology textbook. by Alberts et al 1600 pages Publisher: Garland Science BIOCODE The New Age of Genomics by Dawn Field & Neil Davies 288 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press LIFE UNFOLDING How the Human Body Creates Itself by Jamie A. Davies 312 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press WHAT IS LIFE? How Chemistry Becomes Biology by Addy Pross 224 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press WHY WE GET SICK The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams 304 pages Publisher: Vintage --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFORMATION - DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY EDITION OF ONE The Autobiography of Eugene B. Power, Founder of University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power & Robert Anderson 438 Pages Publisher: Umi Research Pr THE IDEA FACTORY Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner 432 pages Publisher: Penguin Books THE CHIP How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution by T.R. Reid 243 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster THE COMPUTER A Very Short Introduction By Darrel Ince 150 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE by Tracy Kidder 320 pages Publisher: Back Bay Books THE SOCIAL LIFE OF INFORMATION by John Seely Brown 336 pages Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press CITY OF LIGHT The Story of Fiber Optics by Jeff Hecht 348 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press WHERE WIZARDS STAY UP LATE The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon 304 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster WEAVING THE WEB The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee 240 pages Publisher: HarperOne GOOGLED The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta 400 pages Publisher: Penguin Press THE IDEA OF THE DIGITAL UNIVERSITY Ancient Traditions, Disruptive Technologies and the Battle for the Soul of Higher Education by Frank Bryce McCluskey & Melanie Lynn Winter 274 pages Publisher: Policy Studies Organization MP3: THE MEANING OF A FORMAT by Jonathan Sterne 360 pages Publisher: Duke University Press THE NEW DIGITAL AGE Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen 336 pages Publisher: Knopf THE AGE OF CRYPTOCURRENCY How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna & Michael J. Casey 368 pages Publisher: St. Martin's Press THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER by Andrew Keen 288 pages Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press THE SECOND MACHINE AGE Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee 320 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company DIGITAL AUDIOBOOKS New Media, Users, and Experiences by Iben Have & Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen 176 pages Publisher: Routledge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HUMANITIES A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE by David Hume 336 pages An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith 692 pages DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION by John Dewey 296 pages THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS by Sigmund Freud 480 pages THE ORIGINS OF KNOWLEDGE AND IMAGINATION by Jacob Brownowski 268 pages Publisher: Yale University Press THE MEANING OF HUMAN EXISTENCE by Edward O. Wilson 208 pages Publisher: Liveright MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES New Horizons in Theory and Practice by Howard E. Gardner 320 pages Publisher: Basic Books THE ROAD TO SERFDOM by Friedrich von Hayek 131 pages Publisher: University of Chicago Press THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY 40th Anniversary Edition by John Kenneth Galbraith 288 pages Publisher: Mariner Books CONSCIOUSNESS A Very Short Introduction Susan Blackmore 146 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press LINGUISTICS A Very Short Introduction by P. H. Matthews 134 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press GENES, PEOPLES, AND LANGUAGES by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza 224 pages Publisher: North Point Press |