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Oxford University Press (UK) Avoid Boring People
Book Synopsis`ames D. Watson looks back on his extraordinary and varied career -- from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago''s South Side to the day he left Harvard almost 50 years later, world-renowned as the co-discoverer of DNA -- and considers the lessons he has learnt along the way. The result is both an engagingly eccentric memoir and an insightful compendium of lessons in life for aspiring scientists. Watson''s ''manners'' range from those he learnt bird-watching with his father during the Great Depression (''Avoid fighting bigger boys and dogs'' and ''Find a young hero to emulate'') to the manners appropriate for a Nobel Prize (''Have friends close to those who rule''). He evokes his time as a graduate student in the 1940s (''Hire spunky lab helpers''); the excitement of working in DNA for the first time as well as having his first dates; his time working as a White House advisor; and at Harvard in the ''70s. Avoid Boring People is a quirky, original, wise, and infuriatingly un-put-downTrade ReviewIt's never dull. * The Herald (Glasgow) *A lively and provocative book. * Financial Times, Books of the Year *Scientists will find the book most interesting. * Irish Times *The story is frank, personal, revealing and sometimes entertaining. * Peter Lawrence, Literary Review *...a deliciously detailed account of his life...Watson remains one of the most fascinating scientists of our time, as iconic in some respects as his double helix. * Nature *Table of Contents1. Manners acquired as a child (Chicago's South Side) ; 2. Manners learned while an undergraduate ; 3. Manners picked up in graduate school ; 4. Manners followed by the Phage Group ; 5. Manners passed on to an apprentice scientist ; 6. Manners needed for important science ; 7. Manners practiced as an untenured professor ; 8. Manners deployed for academic zing ; 9. Manners noticed as a dispensable White House advisor ; 10. Manners appropriate for a Nobel Prize ; 11. Manners demanded by academic ineptitude ; 12. Manners behind for readable books ; 13. Manners required for academic civility ; 14. Manners displayed to hold two jobs ; 15. Manners felt reluctantly leaving Harvard ; Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Correspondence of Robert Boyle 16361691
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
Book SynopsisVolume I of the Letters, edited by James T. Boulton, gives the first 580 letters in the series, covering the period September 1901 to May 1913. Professor Boulton's discreet annotation conceals an enormous labour of patient detection. There are over thirty photographs of his friends and correspondents.Trade Review'The splendid Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D. H. Lawrence is most welcome. It has all the virtues of a good modern scholarly edition of a writer's letters. Though one has already been familiar with many aspects of Lawrence's personality in his other writings, this comprehensive edition of his letters projects a cohesive self-portriat of the living artist.' English Studies: A Journal of English Language and LiteratureTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Rules of transcription; Lawrence: a genealogy; Lawrence: a chronology, 1885–1913; Maps showing places visited by Lawrence, 1885–1913; Introduction; Letters 1-579; Index.
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Random House USA Inc Call Me American A Memoir
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Random House USA Inc Savor
Book SynopsisJAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to Manhattan and beyond. “Ali’s strength and passion for food and her culture shines through. . . . This memoir is a tribute to the extraordinary life and impact she made in twenty-nine years.”—Oprah Daily (Best Books of the Year)Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the Fan Favorite of Bravo’s Top Chef in season fifteen. Twenty-nine years old, she was a dynamic, boundary-breaking chef and a bright new voice for change in the food world. After the taping wrapped and before the show aired, Fati was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. Not one to ever slow down or admit defeat, the star ch
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Craig Fred
Book SynopsisThe uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel America together, spreading the message of stubborn positivity.In 2010, Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine RECON—the most elite fighters in the Corps—in a remote part of Afghanistan. While on patrol, he spotted a young dog with a big goofy head and little legs who didn’t seem vicious or run in a pack like most strays they’d encountered. After eating a piece of beef jerky Craig offered—against military regulations—the dog began to follow him. Looks like you made a friend, another Marine yelled. Grossi heard, Looks like a ''Fred.'' The name stuck, and a beautiful, life-changing friendship was forged.Fred not only stole Craig’s heart; he won over the RECON fighters, who helped Craig smuggle the dog into heavily fortified Camp Leatherneck in a duffel bag—risking jail and Fred’s life. With the help of a crew of DHL workers, a sympathetic vet, and a military dog handler, Fred eventually made it to Craig’s family in Virginia. Months later, when Craig returned to the U.S., it was Fred’s turn to save the wounded Marine from Post-Traumatic Stress. Today, Craig and Fred are touching lives nationwide, from a swampy campground in a Louisiana State Park to the streets of Portland, Oregon, and everywhere in between. A poignant and inspiring tale of hope, resilience, and optimism, with a timeless message at its heart—it is not what happens to us that matters, but how we respond to it—Craig & Fred is a shining example of the power of love to transform our hearts and our lives.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Sacred Oath
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Upstairs Delicatessen
Book SynopsisGarner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal classic. Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book you're holding is a product of these combined gluttonies.Dwight Garner, the beloved New York Times critic and the author of Garner's Quotations, serves up the intertwined pleasures of books and food. The product of a lifetime of obsessively reading, eating, and every combination therein, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading is a charming, emotional memoir, one that only Garner could write. In it, he records the voices of great writers and the stories from his life that fill his mind as he moves through the sections of the day and of this book: breakfast, lunch, shopping, the occasional nap, drinking, and dinner.Through his lifelong infatuation with these twin joys, we meet the man behind the pages and the plates, and a portrait of Garner, eager and insatiable, emerges. He writes with tenderness and humor about his mayonnaise-laden childhood in West Virginia and Naples, Florida (and about his father's famous peanut butter and pickle sandwich), his mind-opening marriage to a chef from a foodie family (Cree grew up taking leftover frog legs to school in her lunch box), and the words and dishes closest to his heart. This is a book to be savored, though it may just whet your appetite for more.
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Random House USA Inc Diary of a Misfit
Book SynopsisPart memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life.Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit. —The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man, and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the sto
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