The year is 1911.
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Here is remarkable document—the vivid recollection of a man who for thirty years was an inmate of the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing.
To say that the prison at Lans...
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Five people are brought from London to participate in a controlled experiment studying prophetic dreaming. But the results are so ominous that the program is cut short.
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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
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(0)J. B. S. Haldane’s life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama—from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion...
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spirit...
Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest li...
By far the most dreaded of all prisons in New York State is Clinton, at Dannemora, called the "Siberia of America," for unruly convicts and incorrigibles. Outside of the d...
The terrifying story of a man without hope, steeling himself for the final ordeal of the electric chair. John Resko sat in the Death House at Sing Sing waiting for the ele...
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the s...
This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster.
One of the monsters is me.
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