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...book, James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age, by James G. Hershberg '82, began as an undergraduate honors thesis in the history department and grew over the course of 11 years into a 948-page tome. It marks a significant revision to the traditional interpretation of Conant as a heroic defender of academic freedom...
...Would you agree that there has been a burgeoning of interest in literature coming out of the subcontinent, especially with all of the hoopla that accompanied Vikram Seth's tome? Is there more of a market...
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...media sun, isn't it about time the original celebrity-psychopath got to take a bow of his own? Have no fear; coming this fall to a bookstore near you is The Diary of Jack the Ripper, courtesy of U.S. publisher Warner Books and Britain's Smith Gryphon. The tome purports to offer the authentic contents of a journal penned by the legendary London killer who slashed his way into infamy over three months in 1888 by murdering and mutilating at least seven and perhaps as many as 14 prostitutes in the city's tawdry Whitechapel district. The published edition...
...this tiny tome Lightman takes an entirely new approach to Einstein's theory of relativity, which scientists and writers have been trying to explain ever since Einstein proposed the theory in 1905. According to the theory, gravity causes time to slow down. The theory forever disproves and rejects the old-fashioned notion of absolute time. Lightman imagines what dreams Einstein might have had while concocting his theory, dreams that don't even seem too fantastical after one accepts the fact that time is not absolute...