Broca's brain : reflections on the romance of science

Introduction -- Science and human concern. Broca's brain ; Can we know the universe? Reflections on a grain of salt ; The world which beckons like a liberation ; In praise of science and technology -- The paradoxers. Night walkers and mystery mongers: sense and nonsense at the edge of science ; White dwarfs and little green men ; Venus and Dr. Velikovsky ; Norman Bloom, messenger of God -- Science fiction -- a personal view -- Our neighborhood in space. The sun's family ; A planet named George ; Life in the solar system ; Titan, the enigmatic moon of Saturn ; The climates of planets ; Kallipe and the Kaaba ; The golden age of planetary exploration -- The future. "Will you walk a little faster?" ; Via cherry tree, to Mars ; Experiments in space ; In defense of robots ; The past and future of American astronomy ; The quest for extraterrestrial intelligence -- Ultimate questions. A Sunday sermon ; Gott and the turtles ; The amniotic universe -- References -- Index.

Picked-up pieces

Views: The literary life. On meeting writers ; Voznesensky met ; Bech meets me ; Farewell to the middle class -- Four speeches. Accuracy ; The future of the novel ; From Humor in fiction ; Why write? -- London life. Notes of a temporary resident ; Notes to a poem -- Amor vincit omni ad nauseam -- Cemeteries -- Letter from Anguilla. P.S. -- Four introductions. To Pens and needles ; To the Czech edition of Of the farm ; To The Harvard lampoon centennial celebration ; To Soundings in Satanism -- Golf. The first lunar invitational ; Tips on a trip ; Is there life after golf?

Reviews: The fork -- Religious notes -- Dostoevsky. A raw something ; Polina and Aleksei and Anna and Losnitsky -- Knut Hamsun. "My mind was without a shadow" ; Half-mad and maddening ; Love as a standoff -- Joyce and Proust. Questions concerning Giacomo ; Remembrance of things past remembered -- Borges. The author as librarian ; Three translations -- Nabokov. Mnemosyne chastened ; Mary unrevamped ; The crunch of happiness ; Van loves Ada, Ada loves Van ; The translucing of Hugh Person ; Motley but true ; A tribute -- English lives. A short life ; Ayrton fecit ; The mastery of Miss Warner ; A sere life, or, Sprigge's ivy ; Milton adapts Genesis, Collier adapts Milton ; Auden fecit ; A messed-up life -- French deaths. Death's heads ; Albertine disparue ; Saganland and the back of beyond ; In praise of the blind, black god -- Europe. Two points on a descending curve ; The view from the dental chair ; Snail on the stump ; Witold who? ; Inward and onward -- Africa. Out of the glum continent ; Shades of black ; Addendum : excerpts from a symposium ; Through a continent, darkly -- The avant garde. Grove is my press, and avant my garde ; Infante terrible ; Satire without serifs ; Bombs made out of leftovers ; Mortal games -- Young Americans. If at first you do succeed, try, try again ; From Dyna Domes to turkey-pressing ; Jong love -- Older Americans. Indifference ; Papa's sad testament ; And yet again wonderful ; Talk of a tired town ; His own horn ; Remarks ; A citation ; An unpublished book note ; An interesting emendation ; Phantom life -- Non-fiction. Black suicide ; Fool's gold ; Sons of slaves ; Coffee-table books for high coffee tables ; Before the sky collapses ; A new meliorism ; Alive and free from employment.

Understanding the science for tomorrow [videorecording] : myth and reality.

The Great courses. Science & mathematics (Physics)

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

The portable Steinbeck

Works. Selections. 1971

The Viking portable library

from The long valley. Flight ; The snake ; The harness ; The chrysanthemums -- from The pastures of heaven. Tularecito ; Molly Morgan ; Pat Humbert's -- from Tortilla Flat. Danny ; Pilon ; The pirate ; The treasure hunt ; Tortillas and beans -- from In dubious battle. A future we can't foresee -- Of mice and men (the complete novel) -- The red pony. The gift ; The great mountains ; The promise ; The leader of the people -- from The long valley. Breakfast -- from The grapes of wrath. The turtle ; "The last clear definite function of man" ; Migrant people ; Life and death ; Breakfast and work ; Ma and Tom ; The flood -- from Sea of Cortez. "Is" thinking and "living into" ; The pearl of La Paz ; Parable of laziness ; Differences ; "It might be so" -- from "About Ed Ricketts." "Knowing Ed Ricketts--" ; "Speculative metaphysics" -- from Cannery Row. Frog hunt -- from East of Eden. Adam and his sons ; Choice and responsibility ; Technology and a technocrat ; Timshel -- The affair at 7, rue de M-- ; How Mr. Hogan robbed a bank -- from Travels with Charley in search of America. People ; Texan ostentation ; Southern troubles ; Last leg -- from East of Eden ; Nobel prize acceptance speech.

The 1619 Project : a new origin story

1619 Project (Hannah-Jones)

Sixteen Hundred Nineteen Project

Sixteen Nineteen Project

Origins / The white lion / Democracy / Daughters of azimuth / Loving me / Race / Conjured / A ghazalled sentence after "My people... Hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740 / Sugar / First to rise / Proof [dear Phillis] / Fear / Freedom is not for myself alone / Other persons / Dispossession / Trouble the water / Sold South / Capitalism / Fort Mose / Before his execution / Politics / We as people / A letter to Harriet Hayden / Citizenship / The camp / An absolute massacre / Self-defense / Like to the rushing of a mighty wind / No car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails) / Punishment / Race riot / Greenwood / Inheritance / The new Negro / Bad blood / Medicine / 1955 / From behind the counter / Church / Youth Sunday / On "brevity" / Music / Quotidian / The panther is a virtual animal / Healthcare / Unbought, unbossed, unbothered / Crazy when you smile / Traffic / Rainbows aren't real, are they? / A surname to honor their mother / Progress / At the Superdome after the storm has passed / Mother and son / Justice / Progress report