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The one best way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the enigma of efficiency / by Kanigel, Robert.(CARDINAL)753816;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 646-656) and index.

Subjects: Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915.; Industrial engineering.; Industrial management.;

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The man who knew infinity : a life of the genius, Ramanujan / by Kanigel, Robert.(CARDINAL)753816;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-423) and index.

Subjects: Biographies.; Hardy, G. H. (Godfrey Harold), 1877-1947.; Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920.; Mathematicians; Mathematicians;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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High season : how one French Riviera town has seduced travelers for two thousand years / by Kanigel, Robert.(CARDINAL)753816;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index.

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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On an Irish island / by Kanigel, Robert.(CARDINAL)753816;

MARCIVE 3/2/12Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Biographies.; Adventure and adventurers; Travelers;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Vintage reading : from Plato to Bradbury : a personal tour of some of the world's best books / by Kanigel, Robert.(CARDINAL)753816;

On everyone's list of literary classics: Look homeward, angel / Thomas Wolfe -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- Alice's adventures in wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Justine / Lawrence Durrell -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- A passage to India / E. M. Forster -- My Ántonia / Willa Cather -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- On many a list for burning (Heretics, subversives, demagogues): Stories / Dorothy Parker -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler -- Nana / Emile Zola -- Ten days that shook the world / John Reed -- Native son / Richard Wright -- Books that shaped the western world: Essays / Montaigne -- Dialogues / Plato -- The wealth of nations / Plato -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus -- The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon -- The origin of species / Charles Darwin -- The histories / Herodotus -- The Federalist Papers / Hamilton, Madison, Jay -- The annals of imperial Rome / Tacitus -- The Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Making hard work easy (The great popularizers): Only yesterday / Frederick Lewis Allen -- Microbe hunters / Paul de Kruif -- Selected works / Cicero -- Coming of age in Samoa / Margaret Mead -- The outermost house / Henry Beston -- The amiable Baltimoreans / Francis F. Beirne -- What to listen for in music / Aaron Copland -- Gods, graves, and scholars / C.W. Ceram -- The stress of life / Hans Selye -- The Greek way / Edith Hamilton -- Not Robinson Crusoe, not Brave new world: A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe --The doors of perception / Aldous Huxley -- Elective affinities / John Wolfgang von Goethe -- Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell -- Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud -- Arrowsmith / Sinclair Lewis -- Roughing it / Mark Twain -- Lighter fare: A study in scarlet / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The song of Hiawatha / H.W. Longfellow -- The rise of David Levinsky / Abraham Cahan -- Java head / Joseph Hergesheimer -- Mr. Pottermack's oversight / R. Austin Freeman -- A bell for Adano / John Hersey -- The martian chronicles / Ray Bradbury -- Gentleman's agreement / Laura Z. Hobson -- But I know what I like: The ten books of architecture / Vitruvius -- The lives of the most eminent Italian architects, painters, and sculptors / Giorgio Vasari -- The seven lamps of architecture / John Ruskin -- The nude: a study in ideal form / Kenneth Clark --The elements of style / Strunk and White -- One-of-a-kinds: A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- The American language / H.L. Mencken -- The little prince / Antoine de Saint Exupery -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams -- Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neal Hurston -- A mathematician's apology / Godfrey H. Hardy -- My life / Isadra Duncan -- The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas Kuhn -- The realm of the spirit: Gilgamesh / Babylonian epic -- Confessions / Saint Augustine -- The golem / Gustav Meyrink -- The razor's edge / W. Somerset Maugham -- The seven storey mountain / Thomas Merton -- Death be not proud / John Gunther -- Ecclesiastes / Old Testament -- Lost horizon / James Hilton -- The bhagavad gita / Sanskrit poem -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- The varieties of religious experience / William James.

Subjects: Best books.; Books and reading.; Literature;

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Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs / by Kanigel, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)753816;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Chronicles the life of a noted activist who wrote seven groundbreaking books, including her most famous, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; saved neighborhoods; stopped expressways; was arrested twice; and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates -- all of which she won,"--NoveList.

Subjects: Biographies.; Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.; City planners; City planners; City planning; City planning; Urban renewal; Urban renewal; Sociology, Urban;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6

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Hearing Homer's song : the brief life and big idea of Milman Parry / by Kanigel, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)753816;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-306) and index.In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the ٢Darwin of Homeric studies.٣ So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a ٢before٣ Parry and an ٢after.٣ Kanigel describes the ٢before,٣ when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930s, assumed that the Homeric epics were ٢written٣ texts, the way we think of most literature; and the ٢after٣ that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of ٢oral theory,٣ which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.--

Subjects: Biographies.; Parry, Milman.; Classicists;

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The man who knew infinity [videorecording] / by Brown, Matthew(Director)director,screenwriter.; Irons, Jeremy,1948-actor.(CARDINAL)809321; Kanigel, Robert.Motion picture adaptation of (work):Man who knew infinity.; Patel, Dev,1990-actor.; Sinclair, Malcolm,actor.;

Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi, Stephen Fry.The story of pioneer Indian mathematician Srinivasas Ramanujan and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy at Cambridge University.MPAA rating: PG-13.

Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; Hardy, G. H. (Godfrey Harold), 1877-1947; Kanigel, Robert; Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920; Mathamaticians; Mathematicians;

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Ideas into words : mastering the craft of science writing / by Hancock, Elise.(CARDINAL)672923;

Subjects: Technical writing.;

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A field guide for science writers / by Blum, Deborah,1954-(CARDINAL)332950; Knudson, Mary.(CARDINAL)332949; Henig, Robin Marantz.(CARDINAL)332951;

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Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Technical writing;

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