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Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us Someone else’s cell phone conversation. Bad smells. Clouds of insects. Fingernails on a chalkboard. “Everyone is annoyed by something,” write science journalists Palca and Lichtman. In this look across scientific disciplines—acoustics, psychology, linguistics, and more—the authors probe why everyday irritants get under our skin. Unfortunately, understanding the underpinnings of annoyance does little to prevent it. For that, the authors counsel patience, perspective, and, when appropriate, earplugs.
The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World Three years ago, journalist Braude got an unprecedented opportunity to spend four months with a crack detective unit of the Moroccan police. His goal: to observe “how a government and its people conspire to become a society.” In an account that marries travelogue with true crime, Braude is swept up in a murder investigation that exposes both the promise and contradictions of the country.
When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy Since this country began, most Americans “viewed financial securities, the individuals who traded bonds and stocks, and the private associations (like the NYSE) that administered securities exchanges as antithetical to their most cherished economic ideals, political values, and savings practices.” Historian Ott offers a richly illustrated chronicle of how this changed in the 1920s—a cautionary tale for our own time.
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding The grisly rape and attempted murder of white investment banker Trisha Meili in New York City’s Central Park in 1989 horrified the nation. But the five young African American and Latino men convicted of the crime would later—much later—be exonerated when DNA and a confession linked the crime to another man. Author Burns worked with the civil rights attorneys who sued the city; she explores how the rush to judgment happened and what it says about our so-called post-racial society.
Smart Medicine: How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care With smartphones that can serve as electronic speech pathologists and telemedicine connections that enable doctors to use their skills anywhere around the world, science fiction is becoming standard practice for today’s doctors. Hanson, a critical care physician, examines how the tools of the information technology revolution are transforming medicine and providing “the opportunity to reengineer the ways that we practice and consume medical care.”
Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office “I’m not a businessman—I’m a business, man,” said hip-hop superstar and entrepreneur Jay-Z. He wasn’t exaggerating. Last year, he “earned more than all but seven CEOs in the country,” including Michael Dell and Ralph Lauren, notes business writer Greenburg. In this profile of an artist who’s “gone from peddling cocaine to running multimillion-dollar companies,” Greenburg shows how Jay-Z pulled off a modern version of the classic American success story.
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Clayton P. Alderfer ’62, ’66PhD Getty T. Ambau ’77 Elijah Anderson, Professor of Department of Sociology John C. Armor ’64 George W. Arnett lll ’84 Jack M. Balkin, Professor Law School Yael T. Ben-Zion ’01LL.M, ’04 JSD & Joanna Lehan Tomiko Brown-Nagin ’97JD Amy Chazkel ’02PhD Edith W. Clowes ’81PhD Ken Davies ’50 Nina Eliasoph ’82 Marc Freedman ’84 Deborah Freedman ’82 Lara Galinsky & Kelly Nuxoll ’98 Lev Grossman ’97 MPhil Lev Grossman ’97 MPhil John R. Hall ’68 Hannibal Hamlin ’00PhD, Norman W. Jones ’94 Rainer Maria Rilke, Mark Harman ’76, ’80PhD Charles Hill, Professor International & Area Studies John Jagger ’54PhD Kimberly Jannarone ’96MFad, ’00DFad Philip Avery Johnson ’63BA Kate Kaynak ’93 Brian Klopotek ’94 David E. Koskoff ’61, ’64LLB Carrie M. Lane ’05PhD George F. Lau ’90, ’01PhD Ted Ledbetter ’61 Andrew J. Lewis ’01MA, ’01PhD Joe Palca & Flora Lichtman ’05 Karl Marlantes ’67 Glenn Anthony May ’66, ’75PhD Mary S. Mazzacane ’47Musb Ken McAdams ’58 David McCullough ’55, ’98LITTD Jefferson M. Morley ’80 Michelle Nickerson ’03 & Darren Dochuk Joseph M. Ortiz ’95 Wayne Pacelle ’87 Brian J. Peterson ’05PhD Helen Phillips ’04 James Proud ’56LLB Deborah L. Rhode ’74, ’77JD Neil Rolde ’53 Susan Scutti ’82 Jamie Singleton ’78 Daniel L. Segal, Sara Honn Qualls & Michael A. Smyer ’72 Daniel J. Solove ’97 Robert Sussler ’49 Daphne Uviller ’93 Garry Wills ’59MA, ’61PhD W. Rosser Wilson ’60
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