Book Reviews |
 The Dark Lady of DNA. Review of Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (2002), Brenda Maddox. |
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 A good man cannot be found. Review of A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1992), Flannery O'Connor. |
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 Jefferson's legacy. Review of American Sphinx (1998), Joseph J. Ellis. |
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| Did Vermeer do it with mirrors?. Review of Secret Knowledge (2001), David Hockney. |
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| Candide in Maryland. Review of The Sot-weed Factor (2002), John Barth. |
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 Honest Jim. Review of The Double Helix: Norton Critical Edition (1980), James D. Watson, Gunther Stent. |
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| A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun. Review of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1995), Joan Didion. |
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| The Origins of Modern Science. Review of The Origins of Modern Science (1965), Herbert Butterfield. |
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| Heart out of darkness. Review of Heart Of Darkness (1994), Joseph Conrad. |
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| Laconic Love. Review of Monument Road (2015), Charlie Quimby. |
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| The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson. Review of When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012), Marilynne Robinson. |
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 Modern Jeremiad. Review of The Death of Adam (2005), Marilynne Robinson. |
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 Candid, loving portrait of Dad. Review of Sh*t My Dad Says (2010), Justin Halpern. |
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| Kafka comes to Argentina. Review of The Ministry of Special Cases (2007), Nathan Englander. |
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| Cross the Great Divide. Review of American Harvest (2020), Marie Mutsuki Mockett. |
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 There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand?. Review of Atlas Shrugged (1999), Ayn Rand. |
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| Cynicism of the highest order. Review of The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (2002), Ambrose Bierce. |
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| Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story. Review of Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1996), Art Spiegelman. |
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| Are there Laws of Medicine?. Review of The Laws of Medicine (2015), Siddhartha Mukherjee. |
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| Swerving into modernity. Review of The Swerve (2011), Stephen Greenblatt. |
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| The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration. Review of The New Jim Crow (2010), Michelle Alexander. |
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| Wandering Mennonites. Review of The Blue Mountains of China (1995), Rudy Wiebe. |
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| Sleepwalking amid new ideas. Review of The Sleepwalkers (1989), Arthur Koestler. |
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| Jesus, simply. Review of What Jesus Meant (2007), Garry Wills. |
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| The moons of Jupiter. Review of Longitude (2005), Dava Sobel. |
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| Along the Way with Britt Towery. Review of Along the Way (2004), Britt Towery. |
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| Nothing is something. Review of The Nothing that Is (2000), Robert Kaplan. |
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| Too simply pure. Review of Perfect Rigor (2009), Masha Gessen. |
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Of ovules and ovaries. Review of Flora of the Pacific Northwest (1973), C. Hitchcock, A. Cronquist.  |
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| Evo devo: where a little means a lot. Review of Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2006), Sean Carroll. |
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| The physical sublety of life. Review of What Is Life? (1992), Erwin Schrödinger. |
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| Voltaire is a sharp kick in the pants. Review of Candide: or, Optimism (1991), Voltaire. |
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| Reasoning with Thomas Paine. Review of The Age of Reason (1794), Thomas Paine. |
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| The good old days of Christendom. Review of How Should We Then Live? (1983), Francis A. Schaeffer. |
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| Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight. Review of The Night Is Large (1997), Martin Gardner. |
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| Convivencia is a state of mind. Review of People of the Book (2008), Geraldine Brooks. |
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| The burden of combat. Review of The Things They Carried (1998), Tim O'Brien. |
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| Slavery was the First Cause of the Civil War. Review of Apostles of Disunion, Charles B. Dew. |
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| Stuck at twelve. Review of In the Woods (2007), Tana French. |
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| Imagination nonpareil. Review of Harry Potter Septalogy (2009), J.K. Rowling. |
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| Halting steps to soul freedom. Review of The Global Public Square (2013), Os Guinness. |
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| Getting Over the Hump. Review of The Daughter Of Time (1969), Josephine Tey. |
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 The ghost of Schaeffer past. Review of How Now Shall We Live? (1999), Charles Colson. |
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| Hearts and minds. Review of Born Again (1976), Charles Colson. |
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| Storming the Bastille, then laundry. Review of A Place of Greater Safety (2006), Hilary Mantel. |
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| Parascience: Fair - or not. Review of Absence of Mind (2010), Marilynne Robinson. |
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| I, Benvenuto Cellini. Review of The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (1999), Benvenuto Cellini. |
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| The lonely warrior. Review of The Hunters: A Novel (1999), James Salter. |
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| Short and sweet. Review of A Brief History Of Time (1993), Stephen W. Hawking. |
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| Is religious tolerance religious freedom?. Review of Divided by Faith (2007), Benjamin J. Kaplan. |
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| Paul, simply. Review of What Paul Meant (2006), Garry Wills. |
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| Augustine redux. Review of From Harvard to Hell And Back (2001), Eric H. Sigward. |
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| The smartest Nazi. Review of Spandau: The Secret Diaries (2000), Albert Speer. |
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| Shut Up, Legs!. Review of Shut Up, Legs! (2016), Jens Voigt, James D. Startt. |
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| Napoleon. Review of Napoleon: A Life (2014), Andrew Roberts. |
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| The Naturalist. Review of The Naturalist (2017), Andrew Mayne. |
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| Wide of the Mark. Review of Darwin On Trial (1991), Phillip E. Johnson. |
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| The secret world sharply rendered. Review of Cryptonomicon (2002), Neal Stephenson. |
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| Trent: Too little, too late. Review of Trent (2013), John W. Malley. |
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| The Genius of Apple. Review of Steve Jobs (2011), Walter Isaacson. |
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| My favorite inquisitor. Review of Bad Religion (2012), Ross Douthat. |
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| The origins of modern society. Review of Protestantism And Progress (1986), Ernst Troeltsch. |
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| So slender a thread. Review of The United States Constitution (2005), JusticeLearning Org. |
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| fin de siècle German optimism. Review of A History of Germany (1893), Bayard Taylor. |
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| A Finch in Time. Review of The Beak Of The Finch (1995), Jonathan Weiner. |
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| The Department of Public Works. Review of Mink River (2010), Brian Doyle. |
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| Ordinary Overuse of Genius. Review of Ordinary Geniuses (2011), Gino Segrè. |
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| Pandora has many boxes. Review of A Crack In Creation (2017), Jennifer Doudna, Samuel Sternberg. |
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| Persistent kindness. Review of Inhabited (2016), Charlie Quimby. |
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| Gamow on Gravity. Review of Gravity (2019), George Gamow. |
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| Kafka comes to Argentina. Review of Infierno Grande (Vast Hell) (2006), Guillermo Martinez. |
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| The heart of the orchard. Review of The Orchardist (2012), Amanda Coplin. |
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| Totalitarian Zeitgeist. Review of Europe Central (2005), William T. Vollmann. |
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| Evolution and Truth. Review of Why Evolution Is True (2009), Jerry A. Coyne. |
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| . Review of The US Constitution (1996), United States. |
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| Sprinting down the Colorado. Review of The Emerald Mile (2013), Kevin Fedarko. |
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| Marooned on Mars. Review of The Martian (2014), Andy Weir. |
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| Lizbet Salander, meet Inspector Maigret. Review of The Millenium Trilogy (2010), Stieg Larsson. |
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| Hieronymus Bosch in L.A.. Review of The Harry Bosch Series (1987), Michael Connelly. |
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| Would you let your child play football?. Review of League of Denial (2013), Mark Fainaru-Wada. |
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| Taking fundamental science personally. Review of A Short History of Nearly Everything (2004), Bill Bryson. |
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| Humbled again by particle physics. Review of The second creation (1996), Robert P. Crease, Charles C. Mann. |
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| Visualizing Relativity. Review of Relativity: A Graphic Guide (2009), Bruce Bassett. |
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| The Last Kingdom. Review of The Last Kingdom Series (2001), Bernard Cornwell. |
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| The gestation of Christianity. Review of A New History Of Early Christianity (2009), Charles Freeman. |
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| The Heart of Tolstoy. Review of What Men Live By (1885), Leo Tolstoy. |
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| Ever England. Review of The English And Their History (2015), Tombs Robert. |
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| Teach for America. Review of Relentless Pursuit (2008), Donna Foote. |
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| (Post?) Modern tale of mortality. Review of The Subject Steve (2001), Sam Lipsyte. |
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| The historic Cheney Vice-Presidency. Review of Angler (2008), Barton Gellman. |
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| Doc Holliday's story. Review of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend (2006), Gary L. Roberts. |
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| Nightmares in L.A.. Review of The Big Nowhere (2005), James Ellroy. |
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| Too pacific. Review of The Pacific (2010), Hugh Ambrose. |
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Briefly Noted |
| Thomas Jefferson (2005), R.B. Bernstein.Mentioned in the review: Jefferson's legacy. |
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| Master of the Mountain (2012), Henry Wiencek.Mentioned in the review: Jefferson's legacy. |
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| Notes On The State Of Virginia (1996), Thomas Jefferson.Mentioned in the review: Jefferson's legacy. |
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| Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman.Mentioned in the review: Jefferson's legacy. |
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| The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener (1999), Martin Gardner.Mentioned in the review: Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight. |
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| The Annotated Alice (1999), Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner.Mentioned in the review: Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight. |
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| Life and Fate (2006), Vasily Grossman.Mentioned in the review: A good man cannot be found. |
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| Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women (1998), Ricky Jay.Mentioned in the review: A good man cannot be found. |
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| An Anthropologist on Mars (1996), Oliver Sacks.Mentioned in the review: A good man cannot be found. |
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| The Path to the Double Helix (1974), Robert Olby.Mentioned in the review: Honest Jim. |
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| What Mad Pursuit (1988), Francis Crick.Mentioned in the review: Honest Jim. |
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| The Eighth Day of Creation (1996), Horace Freeland Judson.Mentioned in the review: Honest Jim. |
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| The Holocaust (1989), Martin Gilbert.Mentioned in the review: Christianity good, secularism bad. |
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| The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 (1986), Lucy S. Dawidowicz.Mentioned in the review: Christianity good, secularism bad. |
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| U.S. Holocaust Museum Encyclopedia Of Camps And Ghettos, 1933-1945 (2009), Geoffrey P. Megargee.Mentioned in the review: Christianity good, secularism bad. |
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| Demonizing The Jews (2012), Christopher J. Probst.Mentioned in the review: Christianity good, secularism bad. |
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| Complicity In The Holocaust (2012), Robert P. Ericksen.Mentioned in the review: Christianity good, secularism bad. |
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| Inventing Freedom (2013), Daniel Hannan.Mentioned in the review: Christianity good, secularism bad. |
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| Negro President (2004), Garry Wills.Mentioned in the review: Modern Jeremiad. |
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| Skeptics and True Believers (1998), Chet Raymo.Mentioned in the review: Modern Jeremiad. |
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| Hen's Teeth And Horse's Toes (1994), Stephen Jay Gould.Mentioned in the review: Modern Jeremiad. |
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| Constantine's Sword (2002), James Carroll.Mentioned in the review: Modern Jeremiad. |
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| A Little History of the World (2005), E.H. Gombrich.Mentioned in the review: The good old days of Christendom. |
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| Inventing The Individual (2014), Larry Siedentop.Mentioned in the review: The good old days of Christendom. |
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| The Ascent Of Man (1977), Jacob Bronowski.Mentioned in the review: Sleepwalking amid new ideas. |
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| Confessions Of Saint Augustine (1961), Saint Augustine, R.S. Pine-Coffin.Mentioned in the review: Augustine redux. |
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| Democratic Vistas (2010), Walt Whitman.Mentioned in the review: The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson. |
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| The Harvest of Sorrow (1987), Robert Conquest.Mentioned in the review: Wandering Mennonites. |
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| Introduction To The Russian Mennonites (1969), Wally Kroeker.Mentioned in the review: Wandering Mennonites. |
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| Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics (1995), Steve Wilkens.Mentioned in the review: Absolutely relative. |
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| The Best Of Simple (1967), Langston Hughes.Mentioned in the review: Absolutely relative. |
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| Jesus And The Disinherited (1949), Howard Thurman.Mentioned in the review: Absolutely relative. |
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| Concepts of Modern Physics (2002), Arthur Beiser.Mentioned in the review: Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane. |
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| Introductory Nuclear Physics (1987), Kenneth S. Krane.Mentioned in the review: Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane. |
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| Physics Series (2000), Kenneth S. Krane, David Halliday, Robert Resnick.Mentioned in the review: Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane. |
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| Rosalind Franklin and DNA (2000), Anne Sayre.Mentioned in the review: The Dark Lady of DNA. |
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| The Third Man Of The Double Helix (2003), Maurice Wilkins.Mentioned in the review: The Dark Lady of DNA. |
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| Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America (2008), Barry Hankins.Mentioned in the review: How should we then live?. |
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| Was America Founded As A Christian Nation? (2011), John Fea.Mentioned in the review: How should we then live?. |
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| A Christian Manifesto (2005), Francis A. Schaeffer.Mentioned in the review: How should we then live?. |
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| I, Alex Cross (2009), James Patterson.Mentioned in the review: Celebrating reading. |
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