"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
Henry David Thoreau
Nervous System
The Amazing Human Body discusses the composition and function of the complex networks and systems within our bodies.
Windows 7 - The Missing Manual
In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue.
When Amma Went Away - Devika Rangachari
Prison and the gallows
The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and the elderly, is incarcerated today, a rate unsurpassed anywhere else in the world.
Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Janis Caldwell investigates the links between the growing scientific materialism of the nineteenth century and the persistence of the Romantic literary imagination.
Lake poets
The idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism.
Is democracy exportable
Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies?
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