The Power of Introverts In a World that Can't Stop Talking
An enlightened Wall Street survivor exhorts wallflowers everywhere to embrace their solitude-seeking souls and fully appreciate the power of the lone wolf.
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How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet
Since astronomers discovered the first planet circling another star in 1995, they've found hundreds; predictably, this has energized the debate on whether life exists beyond Earth. Sasselov (Astronomy/Harvard Univ.) reviews the hard evidence in favor (not much) before proceeding to explain discoveries and simulations that suggest we are not alone.
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A Family Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving
A memoir of Alzheimer's during its final stages and of a family's attempt to provide support for a spirited grandmother whose changed outlook allowed a vital relationship to move from estrangement to reconciliation.
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The Power of the People Is Greater than the People in Power: A Memoir
A demonstration of the power of social networking by a Google engineer named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2011.
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Literary Judgments and Accounts
A wry, mannered retrospective collection of essays by octogenarian Gass (
A Temple of Texts, 2006, etc.).
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Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age
A dense, detailed, priceless eyewitness account of the making of a literary generation between Paris and New York.
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