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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
