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The Day Room

DeLillo, Don

The play opens in a hospital, the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold - in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour - our sense of normalcy is rocked from under us. Are these doctors and nurses really just patients from the Arno Klein Psychiatric Wing? Or are they something else entirely: people who are playing psychiatric...

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Realism Rescued

Aronson, Jerrold

Does science give us a progressively more accurate and objective account of the world? This book by three leading philosophers of science presents a new defense of scientific realism against skeptical and positivist attacks. While positivists view scientific theories as devices for predicting observable phenomena, realists maintain that theories describe hidden processes which account for observable phenomena. This problem raises the question:...

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Easy-to-Build Bird Feeders

Twitchell, Mary

Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on in...

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Chinese Mirror

Rosemont, Henry

In this radical, unsettling, provocative, and sharply-argued essay, Henry Rosemont utilizes the Chinese turmoil as a case study for an ethical critique of contemporary industrial capitalism.

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GENETICS: THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE W/INFOTRAC

Fairbanks, Daniel (Brigham Young University) / Andersen, W. Ralph (Brigham Young University, Emeritus)

For quite some time textbooks have steered the teaching of genetics down a fairly narrow path - transmissions genetics first, followed by molecular genetics. In Genetics: The Continuity of Life, Fairbanks and Andersen modernize the study of genetics for students. With a clear, robust style, the authors approach genetics at its most fundamental molecular level, building on students' previous exposure from other courses. Once the molecular conce...