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A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics
An essential book for the 21st-century citizen who seeks a lively guided tour of the ancient Greek Olympics What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic...
Vampires, Burial, and Death
Folklore and Reality; With a New Preface
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Wetware
A Computer in Every Living Cell
In the tradition of as Erwin Schrödinger’s What Is Life? and Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene, a distinguished cell biologist explains how living cells perform computations How does a...
War Without Fronts
The USA in Vietnam
A brutal close-up of a strategy of civilian slaughter sanctioned by American leaders, and arguably a final indictment of the American war in Vietnam.Shortly before 8 a.m. on 16 March 1968, C-Company,...
The Myth of Choice
Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits
Freedom of choice is at the core of the American story. But what if choice is fake? Americans are fixated on the idea of choice. Our political theory is based on the consent of the governed. Our legal...
Women, Work, and Politics
The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home,...
Potato
A History of the Propitious Esculent
The long journey of the potato, from Incan gardens in the Andes thousands of years ago to a NASA manned rocket destined for Mars in the twenty-first century The potato—humble, lumpy, bland, familiar—is a...
The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras
Artistic Triumphs and Economic Challenges
This book analyzes the economic challenges facing symphony orchestras and contrasts the experience of orchestras in the United States (where there is little direct government support) and abroad (where governments typically...
Nothing to Hide
The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security
"If you've got nothing to hide," many people say, "you shouldn't worry about government surveillance." Others argue that we must sacrifice privacy for security. But as Daniel J. Solove argues in this important book, these...
Visual Strategies
A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers
For researchers in all disciplines, this book offers a practical, hands-on course in communicating scientific findings and concepts through visual graphics Any scientist or engineer who communicates...