Want to get away with murder? Kill someone that New York City police and DAs do not consider important. This was only one of the more disconcerting "take-aways" I found in Judy Melinek's Working Stiff : two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner. During a time when T.V. shows and movies have so glamorized forensic science to the...
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EBOOKS
Anzia Yezierska Bread Givers
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ Collected stories
1859-1916 Sholem Aleichem Three passover tales
Christopher Stasheff Escape velocity : Warlock of gramarye
Christopher Stasheff...
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FICTION
Kang Han Greek lessons : a novel Fic Han
Belén Gopegui Stay this day and night with me Fic Gopegui
Dave Barry Swamp story : a novel Fic Barry
Don Winslow City of dreams : a novel...
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NON-FICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Stephen Berkman Predicting the past : Zohar Studios, the lost years 779.99 B513
Biography & Genealogy
James Risen The last honest man : the CIA, the FBI, the mafia, and the Kennedys--and one senator's fight to save democra...
E-AUDIOBOOKS
Joanne B Freeman The Field of Blood : Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Eric Bentley Are you now or have you ever been?
Anzia Yezierska Bread givers : 3rd edition
Richard Nelson Some Americans abro...
The library is happy to announce librarian Myles Cooper as our new Library Manager! Myles has been with Mechanics’ Institute for 8 years, first as an on-call Library Assistant and progressing into teaching classes and overseeing various book groups, becoming an essential part of the programming team. Myles has a background in teaching, loves providing adult education services, and is eager to focus more on the library, man...
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Everyone recognizes the name Albert Einstein, but the 20th century was "the century of physics," and we have many other brilliant people who made enormous contributions to our understanding of the universe at the atomic, or quantum, level. Here, we have a play about two of them: Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Although only about 16 years apart in age, many referred to Heisenberg as "Niels Bohr's eldest son." ...
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A few months ago, I read a quote from Carl Sagan's book, The Demon-haunted World, that the writer Paul Ratner claimed predicted, back in 1995, our present-day social, technological and political conditions.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an Am...
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In the 1920s, when he was in his 40s, no less, Bela Bartok and a friend carried a reel to reel tape recorder, and big heavy batteries to power it, into the Carpathian Mountains! Among the first of what we now call ethnomusicologists, Bartok recorded Hungarian peasants playing their traditional instruments and singing songs passed down through generations. Whenever I think of what Bartok accomplished, a line from an old Jan...
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The Mechanics’ Institute Library has implemented an improved online catalog, providing members with a new and better way to find the materials they seek. This new version lets users narrow their searches interactively and intuitively. Our staff will be happy to assist you - you can call the reference desk (415-393-0102), and we can walk you through the various ways you can now search our catalog.
The old "Cla...
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