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A Very Short IntroductionMolecules are the building blocks of matter. Using the molecules of life as a springboard, Philip Ball provides a new perspective on modern chemistry. He shows how molecular scientists are capturing the dynamism of biological molecules in synthetic systems, promising to reinvent chemistry as the central creative science of...

A Very Short IntroductionWhere does our conscience come from, and how reliable is it? Exploring its deep historical roots, Paul Strohm considers what conscience has meant to successive generations. Using examples from popular culture and contemporary politics he demonstrates that conscience is as important today as it has ever been....

Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss refect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the ways in which...

Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence that affinities        had been preserved between all the stages of the life of man. In this beautifully        written and thoughtful book Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill...

Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' HomeAfter the heartbreaking death of his son Willie, Abraham Lincoln and his family fled the gloom that hung over the White House, moving into a small cottage in Washington, D.C., on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, a residence for disabled military veterans. In Lincoln's Sanctuary, historian...

"e;These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly        wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying        with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving...