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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

By: Oren Harman

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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

By: Oren Harman

Describes the intellectual journey of eccentric American genius George Price, who tried to answer the evolutionary riddle of why people are nice, and eventually gave away all his belongings and took his own life in a squatter's flat.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393339998

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9780393339994

Evolutions

Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

By: Oren Harman

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Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

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An artful exploration of how the language of science has replaced old mythologies" --

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INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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0374150702

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Six Days of War

June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Michael B. Oren

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Six Days of War

June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Michael B. Oren

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally—now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of fighting. Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, Michael B. Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world. Extraordinary personalities—Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin—rose and toppled from power as a result of this war; borders were redrawn; daring strategies brilliantly succeeded or disastrously failed in a matter of hours. And the balance of power changed—in the Middle East and in the world. A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative, Six Days of War is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation. Praise for Six Days of War “Powerful . . . A highly readable, even gripping account of the 1967 conflict . . . [Oren] has woven a seamless narrative out of a staggering variety of diplomatic and military strands.”—The New York Times “With a remarkably assured style, Oren elucidates nearly every aspect of the conflict. . . . Oren’s [book] will remain the authoritative chronicle of the war. His achievement as a writer and a historian is awesome.”—The Atlantic Monthly “This is not only the best book so far written on the six-day war, it is likely to remain the best.”—The Washington Post Book World “Phenomenal . . . breathtaking history . . . a profoundly talented writer. . . . This book is not only one of the best books on this critical episode in Middle East history; it’s one of the best-written books I’ve read this year, in any genre.”—The Jerusalem Post “[In] Michael Oren’s richly detailed and lucid account, the familiar story is thrilling once again. . . . What makes this book important is the breadth and depth of the research.”—The New York Times Book Review “A first-rate new account of the conflict.”—The Washington Post “The definitive history of the Six-Day War . . . [Oren’s] narrative is precise but written with great literary flair. In no one else’s study is there more understanding or more surprise.”—Martin Peretz, Publisher, The New Republic “Compelling, perhaps even vital, reading.”—San Jose Mercury News

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Presidio Press

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0345464311

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9780345464316

The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

By: Oren Harman

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Heroin

The Rapids of My Life

By: Oren Elow

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Heroin

The Rapids of My Life

By: Oren Elow

Even though Oren Elow had never tried heroin, hed always heard that it was a gift from the goddess. So he didnt hesitate to try it when his buddies offered him his first hit of heroina hit that would make him a heroin slave and one that would define so many of his following years. In this memoir, Elow shares his lifes narrativefrom growing up in Louisiana with an alcoholic father and loving mother who later divorced, to his years on Bostons streets as a heroin addict, to his time spent behind bars for a variety of transgressions, and to the effect his addiction had on his wife and children. Through anecdotes and stories, Heroin addresses the stark realities of life as a junkie and a convict and provides insight into the mindset of an addict. Elow narrates a broad view of his lifefighting addiction and triumphing over it.

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iUniverse

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1450258239

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The Man Who Invented the Chromosome

A Life of Cyril Darlington

By: Oren Solomon Harman

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The Man Who Invented the Chromosome

A Life of Cyril Darlington

By: Oren Solomon Harman

Harman shows how, within the most miniscule of worlds, Darlington sought answers to the biggest questions—how species originate, how variation occurs. But Darlington did not stop there: Chromosomes held untold, dark truths about man and his culture. This conviction led once-famed Darlington down a path of rebuke, isolation, and finally obscurity.

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Harvard University Press

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0674013336

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9780674013339

Evolutions

Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

By: Oren Harman

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Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

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An artful exploration of how the language of science has replaced old mythologies" --

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The Man Who Invented the Chromosome

the life of Cyril Darlington

By: Oren Solomon HARMAN,Oren Solomon Harman

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The Man Who Invented the Chromosome

the life of Cyril Darlington

By: Oren Solomon HARMAN,Oren Solomon Harman

Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and rose instead, against all odds, to become within a few short years the world's greatest expert on chromosomes, and one of the most penetrating biological thinkers of the twentieth century. Harman follows Darlington's path from bleak prospects to world fame, showing how, within the most miniscule of worlds, he sought answers to the biggest questions--how species originate, how variation occurs, how Nature, both blind and foreboding, random and insightful, makes her way from deep past to unknown future. But Darlington did not stop there: Chromosomes held within their tiny confines untold, dark truths about man and his culture. This passionate conviction led the once famed Darlington down a path of rebuke, isolation, and finally obscurity. As The Man Who Invented the Chromosome unfolds Darlington's forgotten tale--the Nazi atrocities, the Cold War, the crackpot Lysenko, the molecular revolution, eugenics, Civil Rights, the welfare state, the changing views of man's place in nature, biological determinism--all were interconnected. Just as Darlington's work provoked him to ask questions about the link between biology and culture, his life raises fundamental questions about the link between science and society.

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0674038339

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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

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Heroin

The Man Who Invented the Chromosome

The Man Who Invented the Chromosome

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The Man Who Invented the Chromosome

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