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The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center
Charles R. Morris

W. W. Norton, 2007

The Surgeons is a fascinating read!
The Surgeons is an intriguing glimpse into the lives and work of the heart surgeons at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the world's top cardiac surgery centers. Author Charles Morris provides an intimate look at the work of these virtuosos who hold ...
  
  











  



  
Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays
Charles Sanders Peirce

University of Nebraska Press, 1998

Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) which are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science . The opening chapters, “The Fixation of Belief” and “How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” mark the beginning of pragmatism. The ...
  
  











  



  
Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals
M. Morris Mano, Charles R. Kime

Prentice Hall, 1999

Excellent introductory text
This logic and computer design text is excellent for an introductory digital logic course. Although the text is slightly dated, the presentation of key concepts and ideas is clear and understandable. Overall, it provides a strong and thorough background on digital ...
  
  











  



  
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American ...
Charles R. Morris

Holt Paperbacks, 2006

Great summary of Economic History
This is a great book for looking at the economic history of the United States. It covers mostly the four mentioned in the title but what was really fantastic and what deserves that extra star is that it covers the economic developments on the side. It looks at how ...
  
  











  



  
The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment
Charles, R. Morris

W. W. Norton & Company, 1980
  
  











  



  
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
Charles R. Morris

PublicAffairs, 2008

When Will They Ever Learn?
A well written concise perceptive and up to date account of the last 40 years of the history of the US financial sector. What is most interesting is the capacity for self delusion that has been so rampant so repeatedly. This is not a sector with much data rationality ...
  
  











  



  
An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians
Morris E. Opler

University of Nebraska Press, 1996

An objective and accurate ethnology
Opler's book is the result of lengthy interviews with informants during the early part of the Twentieth century .He has quoted many of these Apaches verbatum without editorializing thereby providing an authentic picture of the tribal lifeway during the 19th century. ...
  
  











  



  
Historical Atlas of Oklahoma
John W. Morris, Charles R. Goins, ...

University of Oklahoma Press, 1985

(4th Edition Hardback) Excellent
(I'm reviewing the 4th Edition Hardcover) This atlas maps and details an astonishing number of facts about Oklahoma. There's something for everyone: political (e.g. "Constitutional Convention Delegate Districts, 1906" , geologilcal ("Geologic Formations), biological ...
  
  











  



  
Days We Danced: The Story of My Theatrical Family from Florenz Ziegfeld to Arthur Murray
Doris Eaton Travis, Joseph Eaton, ...

University of Oklahoma Press, 2003

A Special Memoir
Doris Eaton Travis, at age 99, looks back at a full life, the early part of which is a valuable, firsthand portrait of early 20th Century entertainment, when vaudeville and the stage was still a central part of pop culture. Her frank appraisal of the rough road even ...
  
  











  



  
Apart at the Seams: The Collapse of Private Pension And Health Care Protections (Century Foundation Report)
Charles R. Morris

Century Foundation Press, 2006

Throughout most of the past century, America, uniquely among industrial countries, assumed that private businesses would take primary responsibility for providing retirement security and health insurance to working-age people and their families--an arrangement that became known as American "welfare capitalism." That assumption has been put to the ...
  
  











  



  
Iron Destinies, Lost Opportunities: The Arms Race Between the United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1987
Charles R. Morris

Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1988

ironic title -
There is an ironic aspect to this book and its title. Written in 1988, it decries what it calls lost opportunities in avoiding or minimising the arms race between the US and the Soviet Union. Granted, Morris raised good points and many others at the time shared his ...
  
  











  



  
Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World
Charles R. Morris

Beard Books, 2002

Describes the fall of IBM as a leading computer firm
  
  











  



  
Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1974: Revised and Enlarged (Large Print Third ...
Tracy Y. Cannon, M. Lowrie Hofford, ...

Deseret Book Company, 1974

Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1974: Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover Spiral Bound. Dark Navy Blue Color. 1974 Third Edition. 10-7/8" x 7-3/4" x 1-1/4". Weight = 3 lbs. ISBN 0741948737. Special Limited Edition.
  
  











  



  
How Architecture Wins Technology Wars
Charles H. Ferguson

Harvard Business Review, 1993

A new paradigm is required to explain patterns of competitive success and failure in information technology. Success flows to the company that establishes proprietary architectural control over a broad, fast-moving, competitive space. Architectural strategies have gained importance in information technology because of the astonishing rate of ...
  
  











  



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