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Great
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A few good reasons to stay out of the cold this month—
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Physical
An American Checkup |
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By James
McManus
Do
you like going to the doctor? Neither do we. But it has to be
done. James (Positively Fifth St.) McManus takes going
in for a check up to the extreme, going to the Mayo Clinic for
a three-day odyssey of rubber gloves, dominatrix-like technicians,
and dread. While recounting his experiences McManus also ruminates
on the nature of medicine in modern America, excess (both cultural
and personal), and his own mortality.
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Purity
of Blood
Book Two of the Adventures of Captain Alatriste |
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By Arturo
Pérez-Reverte
The second
book in the Captain Alatriste series, by longtime Barbara’s
favorite Arturo Pérez-Reverte, is finally available in English.
Our swashbuckling hero must put off returning to his old regiment
in order to save a young woman, and her family, from the hands
of a powerful priest, and then from the Inquisition itself.
Barbara’s recommends all of Pérez-Reverte’s novels—from
The Flanders Panel to Queen of the South.
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Black
Bodies and Quantum Cats
Tales from the Annals of Physics |
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By Jennifer
Ouellette
Let your mind
wander far afield while your body is forced to stay indoors.
In BLACK
BODIES AND QUANTUM CATS, science writer Jennifer Ouellette
traces key developments in the field of physics,
setting descriptions of the fundamentals in their historical
context as well as against a broad cultural backdrop. Newton’s
laws are illustrated via the film Addams Family Values, while
Back to the Future demonstrates the finer points of special
relativity.
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