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In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity

by Daniel Kevles

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Daniel Kevles

The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America by Daniel Kevles

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

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The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America
by Daniel Kevles

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)