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Vantage point : opinion column .

Scott, Eugene L.

Alumni Author: Eugene L. Scott SM Class of 1955 Eugene L. Scott is the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Tennis Week magazine. Tennis Week April 19, 2005 Volume 31, No. 12 www.tennisweek.com An opinion/editorial column discussing issues, personalities, or trends in professional tennis as of April 2005. .

Date Published:2005

Oxidative demethylation by escherichia coli AlkB directly reverts DNA base damage

Henshaw, Timothy, 2002.

Alumni author: Timothy F. Henshaw SM Class of 1992 Nature (International weekly journal of science) Volume 419 12 September 2002 www.nature.com/nature Article: Oxidative demethylation by escherichia coli AlkB directly reverts DNA base damage Page: 174 Possible topics covered: Genetic engineering Molecular biology DNA repair Oxidative demethylation DNA damage AlkB protein (Escherichia coli) Enzymes—Function Escherichia coli—Genetics Escherichia coli—Metabolism DNA—Metabolism Gene expression—Regulation Nucleic acids—Metabolism Adaptive response (Genetics) Mutagenesis Epigenetic modification.

Date Published:2002

Arlo's shell hunting adventure

Zou, Cici, 2025.

Arlo, an inquisitive hermit crab, goes on an adventure to find the perfect shell. He finds lots of discarded plastic along the way. He makes sure to clean up the beach for other sea creatures.

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The ocean between us

Zou, Alisa, 2025.

"This book about [dolphins] Cleo and Thea takes place in 2030-2060." -- inside book.

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Seeds of home : Planting hope in new soil

Zhang, Catherine, 2025.

Alumni: Catherine Zhang, St. Mark's Class of 2026. "From the gardens of Kakuma refugee camp to the classrooms of Boston, follow Aluel and her little brother Garang as they discover that home is not just a place -- it's the love, knowledge, and traditions we carry with us wherever we go. A heartwarming story about resilience, cultural sharing, and growing roots in new soil." -- back cover .

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SPQR : a history of ancient Rome

Beard, Mary, 1955-,

Prologue : the history of Rome -- Cicero's finest hour -- In the beginning -- The kings of Rome -- Rome's great leap forward -- A wider world -- New politics -- From empire to emperors -- The home front -- The transformations of Augustus -- Fourteen emperors -- The haves and have-nots -- Rome outside Rome -- Epilogue : the first Roman millennium. "Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? In S.P.Q.R., world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty. From the foundational myth of Romulus and Remus to 212 ce--nearly a thousand years later--when the emperor Caracalla gave Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire, S.P.Q.R. (the abbreviation of "The Senate and People of Rome") examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism and revolution, and how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation. Opening the book in 63 bce with the famous clash between the populist aristocrat Catiline and Cicero, the renowned politician and orator, Beard animates this "terrorist conspiracy," which was aimed at the very heart of the Republic, demonstrating how this singular event would presage the struggle between democracy and autocracy that would come to define much of Rome's subsequent history. Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident and self-critical empire, S.P.Q.R. reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous and familiar characters--Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others--while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those on the losing side of Rome's glorious conquests." -- Publisher's description.

Date Published:2015

The barn : the secret history of a murder in Mississippi

Thompson, Wright,

"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long. Wright Thompson’s family farm in Mississippi is 23 miles from the site of one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history, yet he had to leave the state for college before he learned the first thing about it. To this day, fundamental truths about the crime are widely unknown, including where it took place and how many people were involved. This is no the cover-up began at once, and it is ongoing. In August 1955, two men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were charged with the torture and murder of the 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. After their inevitable acquittal in a mockery of justice, they gave a false confession to a journalist, which was misleading about where the long night of hell took place and who was involved. In fact, Wright Thompson reveals, at least nine people can be placed at the scene, which was inside the barn of one of the killers, on a plot of land within the six-square-mile grid whose official name is Township 22 North, Range 4 West, Section 2, West Half, fabled in the Delta of myth as the birthplace of the blues on nearby Dockery Plantation. Even in the context of the brutal caste regime of the time, the four-hour torture and murder of a boy barely in his teens for whistling at a young white woman was acutely depraved; Till’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley’s decision to keep the casket open seared the crime indelibly into American consciousness. Wright Thompson has a deep understanding of this story—the world of the families of both Emmett Till and his killers, and all the forces that aligned to place them together on that spot on the map. As he shows, the full horror of the crime was its inevitability, and how much about it we still need to understand. Ultimately this is a story about property, and money, and power. It implicates all of us. In The Barn, Thompson befriends the few people who have been engaged in the hard, fearful business of bringing the truth to light, people like Wheeler Parker, Emmett Till’s friend, who came down from Chicago with him that summer, and is the last person alive to know him well. Wheeler Parker’s journey to put the killing floor of the barn on the map of Township 22 North, Range 4 West, Section 2, West Half, and the Delta, and America, is a journey we all need to go on if this country is to heal from its oldest, deepest wound." -- Goodreads.

Date Published:2024