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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel offers a sweeping explanation for why some human societies developed agriculture, technology, centralized governments, and military power earlier than others. Jared Diamond argues that geography and environment, not racial or cultural superiority, shaped the broad patterns of world history.
- Edition
- 20th Anniversary
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780393354324
- Collation
- 528 pages, 6.1 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4 DIA g
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a powerful coming‑of‑age story set in the racially divided American South of the 1930s. Told through the eyes of young Scout Finch, the novel follows her father, Atticus Finch, a principled lawyer who defends Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman. As the trial unfolds, Scout and her brother Jem confront the harsh realities of prejudic…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780060935467
- Collation
- 336 pages, 5.4 x 1.1 x 7.4 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 813.54 LEE t
Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong is J. L. Mackie’s influential and provocative examination of the foundations of morality. Mackie argues that although people commonly speak as if moral values are objective truths, such values do not actually exist — a position he calls the “error theory.” He supports this claim through arguments about the metaphysical “queerness” of objective value…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780140135589
- Collation
- 256 pages, 5.12 x 0.59 x 7.76 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 170 MAC e
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Stuff Matters reveals the extraordinary science hidden inside the ordinary objects we use every day. Materials scientist Mark Miodownik takes readers on a journey through a single morning, using familiar items — a steel razor, a porcelain mug, a graphite pencil, a concrete wall, a chocolate bar — to explain the remarkable structures and properties that make each material work.
- Edition
- Reprint Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780544483941
- Collation
- 272 pages, 5.31 x 0.71 x 8 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 620.11 MIO s
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
Life’s Edge explores one of science’s most enduring mysteries: what exactly counts as “alive”? Carl Zimmer travels through cutting‑edge laboratories, historical experiments, and strange corners of the natural world to show how difficult it is to draw a clear boundary between living and nonliving things. From protocells and hibernating animals to viruses and engineered droplets that be…
- Edition
- Reprint Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780593182734
- Collation
- 384 pages, 5.48 x 0.8 x 8.23 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 570 ZIM l
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
A Brief History of Thought offers a clear, engaging journey through the major philosophical traditions that have shaped Western civilization. Luc Ferry traces the evolution of ideas from the ancient Greeks’ search for wisdom, through the rise of Christianity and its moral framework, to the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason, the existentialists’ focus on individual freedom, and the challe…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780062074249
- Collation
- 304 pages, 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 190 FER a
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon follows Charlie Gordon, a kind‑hearted man with an intellectual disability who undergoes an experimental surgery designed to dramatically increase his intelligence. The procedure has already succeeded in a laboratory mouse named Algernon, and Charlie becomes the first human test subject.
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780156030083
- Collation
- 311 pages, 6.88 x 4.19 x 0.75 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 813.54 KEY f
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat presents twenty of Oliver Sacks’s most remarkable clinical stories, each illuminating the strange, fragile, and resilient nature of the human brain. Through vivid, compassionate narratives, Sacks introduces patients who experience profound disruptions in perception, memory, identity, and motor control — from a man unable to recognize everyday objects t…
- Edition
- Reissue Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780593466674
- Collation
- 320 pages, 5.18 x 0.68 x 8 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 616.8 SAC t
Islam: A Short History
Islam: A Short History offers a clear, balanced, and accessible overview of one of the world’s major religions. Karen Armstrong traces Islam from its beginnings in 7th‑century Arabia, where the Prophet Muhammad’s message emphasized social justice, community, and compassion, through the rapid expansion of the early Islamic empires. She explains key developments such as the Sunni–Shia spl…
- Edition
- Updated Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780812966183
- Collation
- 272 pages, 5.23 x 0.6 x 7.92 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 297 ARM i
Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
Good Arguments blends memoir and practical communication guidance as Bo Seo traces his journey from a shy Korean immigrant child in Australia to a two‑time world champion debater and Harvard debate coach. Through personal stories and clear explanations, Seo shows how debate taught him to listen carefully, think critically, and communicate with clarity and empathy.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780593299531
- Collation
- 352 pages, 5.3 x 0.77 x 7.96 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808.53 SEO
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