Blackwell Companions to American History
A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography. Written by an expert in the field, each essay assesses the past and current state of American scholarship, covering topics such as foreign policy, religion, labor, ethnicity, law, the military, and the media. Additional essays cover major time periods: from the beginning of the century through the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, up to the closing of the century. An editorial introduction and further reading lists for each chapter round out this clearly written, exciting overview of twentieth-century American history. Students, scholars, and general readers should find this an indispensable work of reference and source of information.
Scientific American, August 19, 2007 Scientific American Digital
In this issue:
NNOVATIONS
Data Center in a Box
By M. Mitchell Waldrop
A shipping container stuffed with servers could usher in the era of cloud computing
PUBLIC POLICY
Race in a Bottle
By Jonathan Kahn
Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science
NEUROSCIENCE
Windows on the Mind
By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde
Once scorned as nervous tics, certain tiny, unconscious flicks of the eyes now turn out to underpin much of our ability to see. These movements may even reveal subliminal thoughts
MODELING
Predicting Wildfires
By Mark Finney and Mark Fischetti and Patricia Andrews
Fires are burning more acres than ever. Where will the next blazes ignite? Can we prevent them? Should we?
Of Mice And Men
This book is highly recommended (by Americans). Once you have read it, you'll never forget it!
This novel was written by a Nobel-prize author so "Of Mice And Men" has always been among the greatest ones of American Literature.
It is not a love story but a lifelong friendship, telling a moving story of two migrant workers with their "American dream".
This novel has been very controversial since it was published in 1937 and there is also a very great film (same name) based on the novel. You should watch that movie as well.
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Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert have assembled stories that trace the evolution of the American detective short story. Their contention, amply supported by their selections, is that American authors have stretched, modified, and violated the rules and structural form of the detective story, thereby continuously enriching this genre, and ensuring its longevity. Each story is preceded with an interesting, one-page discussion on topics like the emergence of credible female detectives, the growth of regionalism, and the development of authentic, psychologically complex characters.
Scientific American Magazine .January 2007 Scientific American isa popular-sciencemagazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. It brings articles about new and innovative research to the amateur and lay audience.
Scientific American(informally abbreviated to "
SciAm") had a monthly circulation of roughly 555,000 US and 90,000 international as of December 2005.[1] It is a well-respected publication despite not being a peer-reviewedscientific journal, such as
Nature; rather, it is a forum where scientific theories and discoveries are explained to a wider audience. In the past scientists interested in fields outside their own areas of expertise made up the magazine's target audience. Now, however, the publication is aimed at educated general readers who are interested in scientific issues. The magazine
American Scientist covers similar ground but at a level more suitable for the professional science audience, similar to the older style of
Scientific American.
Scientific American, August 19, 2007
