Miles locked the door and reset the security system, and we ran to the van. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe you get sucked into furnace systems and blown out through the vents. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they put their heads together and came up with a system to help make their work more efficient. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Experts believe that cholera will continue to spike and ebb in Haiti until safe public water systems are available throughout the country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There are those who believed we should always reject bail, as it could be interpreted that we were fainthearted rebels who accepted the racist strictures of the legal system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faraz, who spent the day with his dad trying to get their reverse-osmosis water purification system to turn urine into drinking water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My nervous system launched into “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sadness to learn that you are still suffering under an inhuman system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As rapidly as the systems were broken, each day’s traffic was translated by me into plain text.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One woman was speaking vigorously against the city’s housing policies when the church’s PA system went out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then they came back and published a report, and the government used that knowledge to build the most advanced system of racial oppression known to man. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

From January on, she was wrapped in a wet sheet and rubbed vigorously for five minutes every morning, which was supposed to stimulate her nervous system and circulation. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed the effect of the brand flies’ poison still lingered in the sky god’s system. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The reaping system is unfair, with the poor getting the worst of it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Just try to imagine how difficult it would have been to create states, or churches, or legal systems if we could speak only about things that really exist, such as rivers, trees and lions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They suspected that whites were being diverted by federal prosecutors to the state system, where the penalties for crack offenses were far less severe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A large stereo system sat on a shelving unit next to a boxy television set. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On Mars, and elsewhere in the solar system, we see features that could not be produced today, landscapes carved hundreds of millions or billions of years ago when the planetary climate was probably very different. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just now and then he posted an incisive little farewell note in the Paris sewerage system, and it was delivered promptly to Dufarge’s boot. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He was unaided and easily condemned by a system that was inattentive to the precise legal requirements of capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And as the time passed, Thomas let the slightest trickle of hope enter his system—maybe they’d make it before getting attacked. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Or maybe your brain works on a different operating system from other people’s like mine and you’ve worked it out too. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top-down goals become swamped, overwhelmed by the primitive bottom-up system aimed at warning us of opportunity or threat, playing to our deepest social needs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The weird thing, he told me, was that Rose’s gran keeping her out of the system for so long had actually helped Rose learn to relate to other people. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Moreover, it was generally acknowledged that the Tychonic system was incompatible with belief in solid heavenly spheres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Under “normal” conditions, they argue, state institutions are able to normalize the organization and enforcement of the prevailing racial order, and the system functions relatively automatically. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The basic structure of the system remains intact. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The system now, however, requires very little maintenance or justification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To ensure success, he paid meticulous attention to detail: the health of the Sherpas, the efficiency of the solar-powered electrical system, the sharpness of his clients’ crampons. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In Sweden, the people I met were equally interested and responsive, even though they hadn't experienced profound need or shared struggle with an abusive justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

During migration season, when we hunt fowl, we’ve developed a system of dividing the birds so we don’t both target the same ones. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The term mass incarceration refers not only to the criminal justice system but also to the larger web of laws, rules, policies, and customs that control those labeled criminals both in and out of prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Each morning before breakfast the guard in the front office clicked on the intercom system. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Our bodies are made up of many rhythms—the heart, respiratory system, our body’s energy, digestive systems etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Some insects of bolder inventiveness have devised personal refrigeration systems. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alongside these parallels, there were also some major differences in food production systems around the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although each of those systems used distinctive sets of signs not borrowed from Egypt or Sumer, the peoples involved could hardly have been unaware of the writing of their neighboring trade partners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A rotating solar system hung over his bed like one of those things you put over a crib. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Just as for Cyg X-l, their rapid fluctuations show their enormous brightness to be confined to a very small volume, in this case less then the size of the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He discovered the heating element was gone, mainly because I had taken it to see if my plans for an electrical-ignition system would work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some anonymous person hacked into the computer systems and sent out a mass email to the entire school district’s database. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

How nature ran on sunlight and rain and the seasons, and how I was part of that system. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

An unbreakable bond united the crew—for many members, it was the only support system they had. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Is like a web of roads. Is entire canal system. One canal leads to crossing place and meets with another,” explains one man Bernard, drawing lines in the dirt with a stick. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arrangement came to be known as the Pennsylvania—or “separate”—system, and it attracted much attention, both abroad and at home. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the kind of fatalism and pessimism typical of a repressive feudal system, where peasants have no reason to believe in the efficacy of their own work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Bobby claimed that his system would actually reduce the number of draws, that it would produce games in which the players would take more chances, trying to achieve wins rather than half points. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to have your emotional immune system checked out.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was so excited to discover their organized system of lawyers fighting for our equality. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

An ad of theirs seeking franchisees later spelled out the benefits of the system: “Imagine — No Carhops — No Waitresses — No Dishwashers — No Bus Boys — The McDonald’s System is Self-Service!” Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“But this isn’t math. This is the Dewey decimal system and there’s always three numbers to the left of the decimal point.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In major cities across the United States, the majority of young black men are under the control of the criminal justice system or saddled with criminal records. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, we ought not be misled by those who insist that violent crime has driven the rise of this unprecedented system of racial and social control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Electricity—I remembered Greg mentioning something about the Yellows rigging the system to work, but did they have running water, too? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I learned the best system for saying bye to people is to just keep walking and not think about it that much. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They also had a sophisticated system of astronomy; like the Greeks, they tried to calculate the distance to the sun. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Or he’d organize by colors or dents—he would have a system. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Court’s blind eye to race discrimination in the criminal justice system has been especially problematic in policing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We find them throughout the inner solar system—from Mercury, closest to the Sun, to cloud-covered Venus to Mars and its tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father dangled above him, half his body sucked into the hydrofoil’s gear system. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Fiction books are usually put on the shelf in alphabetical order by the author’s last name. Nonfiction titles are classified according to the Dewey decimal system.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They tried out the piano and examined the public address system, a battery of six microphones that would broadcast the event to those present at the Memorial and also to the national radio audience. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She shows him the transmitter in the attic: its double battery, its old-fashioned electrophone, the hand-machined antenna that can be raised and lowered along the chimney by an ingenious system of levers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My sister spent the next ten minutes denouncing the Greek system of sororities and fraternities. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll start with a practice round, so you can familiarize yourself with our button system. Everyone ready? Which of the following is a mammal? A. Cat B. Bird C. Turtle D. Spider.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They also observe systems in which there is only one visible star that is orbiting around some unseen companion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The difference in the speed of clocks at different heights above the earth is now of considerable practical importance, with the advent of very accurate navigation systems based on signals from satellites. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to detecting cheaters, the algorithm could also identify the best teachers in the school system. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Nailer couldn’t help inanely calculating scavenge value of the lighting systems as he made his way down the corridor. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shapley had in 1915 the courage to propose that the solar system was in the outskirts and not near the core of our galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After barely nibbling it, she thought her respiratory system was going to implode. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Virtually all of it–99.9 percent of the mass of the solar system–went to make the Sun. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the Greeks and Romans hated zero so much that they clung to their own Egyptian-like notation rather than convert to the Babylonian system, even though the Babylonian system was easier to use. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Is it some kind of hydraulic suspension system?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The court system, however, was perhaps the only place in South Africa where an African could possibly receive a fair hearing and where the rule of law might still apply. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment, he had NT 5, NT 4, Work Station, Windows 98, and he and Eric had begun fooling around with Linux, the complex, open-source software system rapidly spreading across the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short, the inclusion of some whites in the system of control is essential to preserving the image of a colorblind criminal justice system and maintaining our self-image as fair and unbiased people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The nondecreasing behavior of a black hole’s area was very reminiscent of the behavior of a physical quantity called entropy, which measures the degree of disorder of a system. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was her last to reach him before the post delivery system broke down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It happened early on, when my system hadn’t learned yet to live with hunger and my imagination was still wildly searching for solutions. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in the last fifty years we have built a food system that strips many of those healthy compounds out of our foods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Earthling, is your audio intake system damaged? Can you hear me, Earthling?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in my life 1 have met the system face-to-face, fully determined to function within its context as an observer and critic in disguise, so to speak. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harder still to believe that it contains the origins of the solar system. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

One of the educational system’s pervasive responses to Littleton was to lecture oddballs and geeks about the importance of not slaughtering others. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t dream of messing with your system, Mom.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He detected no respiratory infection but prescribed shots of liver and placenta extract, a novel therapy for weakened immune systems. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To the extent that major changes are achieved without a complete shift, the system will rebound. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A week later Bobby was back at the Marshall to play in the weekly speed tournament—christened the “Tuesday Night Rapid Transit” in homage to the New York City rapid transit subway system. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ditch systems were similar to those still used today in the highlands to drain swampy areas for use as gardens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You said it was the littlest planet in the solar system!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His motivation was simple: Venus was a problem for both the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems because, according to both theories, its distance from the Earth varied greatly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But that’s all we know about him. We tried to keep track of him, but it’s a...complicated system.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A way that I could take revenge on the Nazi system—a missing girl, like a missing pack of cigarettes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There also remains a persistent tendency in the civil rights community to treat the criminal justice system as just another institution infected with lingering racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After the training camp, his coach said that he was second string and that when he starts learning the system, he will be first string. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

We may think we know how the criminal justice system works. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

While young minority men with little schooling have always had relatively high rates of incarceration, “before the 1980s the penal system was not a dominant presence in the disadvantaged neighborhoods.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The government's November 1954 draft syllabus was a retreat from the original notion of modeling the school system on tribal foundations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their veins and arteries have been injected with colored rubber, blue for the veins, purple for the arteries, so we can see that their blood systems are connected. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The jury system allowed a significant role to circumstantial evidence, as long as it was introduced in testimony. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That was a better system, he thought, more sure. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, he hastened to add, “They were victims of a spiritual and intellectual blindness. They knew not what they did. The whole system of slavery was largely perpetuated through spiritually ignorant persons.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The inconvenience of this system in record-keeping is palliated by various devices, for instance reference to well-known events, reigns of kings, dynasties, local lords, etc. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once I did, the system asked me if, in addition to resurrecting their avatars, I wanted to restore all of their lost items, too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The antebellum plantation system had never taken root in West Virginia the way it had farther east and south. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And what else is out there, beyond the solar system? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

One of the things which makes this so infuriating is that the system favors shallow people. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solar system will then be filled with an eerie radiance, the ghost of the Sun, outward bound. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Elizebeth was all business as she explained that it meant she was an expert in breaking secret code and cipher systems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was a white Afrikaner, a creature of the South African system and mind-set. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Filled with gears and pulleys and wires and an elaborate computer system.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time the Maya found themselves simultaneously maintaining existing systems and pushing out to cover past mistakes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In this age of electricity and modem heating systems, there is no need at all to employ the sorts of numbers necessary even a generation ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Programming, the installation of software, getting computers to speak properly to one another, all require very particular languages, protocols, and conventions—in sharp contrast to the emotional, visceral, manipulative drama of the political system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I represent the State of New York and I am part of that system, as are the judge and all the participants in this trial. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The canon of black autobiography sensibly includes scores of books about resistance to the American system. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Specifically it is a measure of randomness or disorder in a system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet, the Bantu Authorities Act would replace it with an even more repressive system: a feudalistic order resting on hereditary and tribal distinctions as decided by the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Joel knows if he added a lot more chickens to the farm it would throw the system off balance. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Chapter Eleven tapped into the pneumatic system in the basement and spent hours sending a Ping-Pong ball around the house through a network of vacuum cleaner hoses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Brahe at first thought that he had obtained a reliable figure for the parallax of Mars which proved the Ptolemaic system was mistaken, although he later realized that there were problems with it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Behind Finn, the public address system crackled, and then he heard his mother’s voice boom out throughout the entire auditorium: “I killed everyone who disagreed with me...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Huge enough to have its own solar system. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, this can be a little confusing, particularly when different systems use the same symbol to refer to different chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the beginning of the seventeenth century, another astrologer-monk, Johannes Kepler, refined Copernicus’s theory, making it even more accurate than the Ptolemaic system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Elinor told her before setting to work on the alarm system. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mathematical theories were not explanations, they were conceptual systems for making predictions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She says we don’t want to create a class system in our cell, the haves and have nots. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erwin’s beneficence, however, did not silence the rising critics of a system that traded informal “favors” for complete submission to the owner’s authority. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I did the ordering and the inventory and he upgraded the accounting system, brought in new electric cash registers, streamlined the vendors—modernized it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I beat the cough out of my system, the best I can, at least, before pushing the man aside with more strength than I’d have bet I had. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I will ensure the Collective has nanomeds to keep their bodies functioning, so they can breathe in your clean air, which is of course irrelevant without a healthy pulmonary system.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Consumers in the U.S. have already made big changes in the food system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Whatever would they do with such a child when he entered the childcare system? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Water from the system—the first water system in the United States—was sweeter tasting and had no offensive odor. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They were all built by the same contractor at the height of apartheid—separate nodes in the central nervous system of a police state. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We know that Sequoyah received paper and other writing materials, the idea of a writing system, the idea of using separate marks, and the forms of several dozen marks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The fate of the inner solar system as the Sun becomes a red giant is grim enough. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomás is also eyeing the mobile radio system on the dashboard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The KGB's Fifth Directorate policed anyone who dared criticize the system. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In 2004 two U.S. anthropologists and a Venezuelan medical researcher proposed that Native American susceptibility to infectious disease might have a second cause: helper-T cells, which like HLAs help the immune system recognize foreign objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And yet it occurred to Penelope that the children should not be kept indoors too much at first; it might prove a shock to their systems and cause them to catch cold. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Southern whites, Woodward explains, strongly believed that a new system of racial control was clearly required, but it was not immediately obvious what form it should take. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It literally means “apartness” and it represented the codification in one oppressive system of all the laws and regulations that had kept Africans in an inferior position to whites for centuries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Uranus it will plunge on past Neptune, leaving the solar system, becoming an interstellar spacecraft, fated to roam forever the great ocean between the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most ardent proponents of racial hierarchy have consistently succeeded in implementing new racial caste systems by triggering a collapse of resistance across the political spectrum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What matters most is who gets swept into this system of control and then ushered into an undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

However, as Mozelle and Onzelle discovered, focusing on the status of the victim became one more way for the criminal justice system to disfavor some people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Though Copernicus’s system didn’t agree with the data completely—the circular orbits were wrong, though the heliocentric idea was correct—it was much simpler than the Ptolemaic system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The intended restricted uses of early writing provided a positive disincentive for devising less ambiguous writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The reality is that, just a few decades after the collapse of one caste system, we constructed another. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Morning announcements were postponed, replaced by stern instructions over the P.A. system—that all students were to line up outside their first-period classes—which no one heard. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I explained how I’d seen Jesse install operating systems, play online games from chess to Quake, use astonishing ingenuity to gather archived information off the Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After realizing that the hospital system could be better about hiring minority- and women-owned businesses for its contracted work, I helped set up the Office of Business Diversity as well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There is no monetary system in place, so rice is used as currency. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, writing the number 87 in the Egyptian system would require 15 symbols: eight heels and seven vertical marks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He has some bitterness about the continuing class system within the black community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A van from a company that installs security systems blocks his parents’ driveway, and so he parks on the street, by the mailbox on the edge of the lawn. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To save fuel, we had turned off our control system, which meant that we were slowly tumbling. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In most of the states formed over the Maya area of Mesoamerica and the Andes, irrigation systems always remained small-scale ones that local communities could build and maintain themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know if “the system” truly existed, but I had heard so many black people talk about “it” that emotionally “it” existed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prior drug wars were ancillary to the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And so ani­mals have a full system of cautionary signals designed to avoid a showdown, and they are quick to back down when they feel they can. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His system worked, and since he knew no other, Joe had no basis of comparison with other systems. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The system presumed that all species had already been fixed and would not change. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave Elizebeth a few more messages in what turned out to be yet another system. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize how much Cara had already cleaved to the idea of being an Allegiant, loyal to the faction system, loyal to our founders. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

All of this may seem very arbitrary, but it's important to remember that medieval mode theory, just like our modern music theory, was not trying to invent a logical system of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

After 18 May the Ptolemaic system, which had survived for more than 1,400 years, was fatally wounded. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Our brains and nervous systems are the same because, according to recent theory, we are all descended from one woman in Africa a quarter-million years ago. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to respect one another’s curtains, but it was an imperfect system, especially where Minya was concerned. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The piping systems are all buried except one, which runs along the ground to send water to the power plant, near the fence. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

This is the case even when the television flashes to a commercial, Dr. Anderson explains, suggesting that the attention systems lock on even when the narrative isn’t engaging the top-down systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He said that the violence of the system needed to be answered with the violence of revolution. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many African Americans today believe that uplift ideology worked in the past and ought to work again—forgetting that ultimately it took a major movement to end the last caste system, not simply good behavior. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is even possible that the material outgassed from Io contributes, after many collisions and condensations, to the ring system of Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The system wouldn’t let me, because class was still in session. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Anatole has been explaining to me the native system of government. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Last year she developed a system for the Clarion County Hospital. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew about labs, knew we would be studying cells and life systems this year, and that by midyear, we would dissect an earthworm. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The public address system blared a slow number, and counting systematically to herself, Jean Louise danced through it with only one mistake. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The new laundry maid, Nivea, was using them up inefficiently, without a system. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Blue walls covered with superhero and comic book posters, a solar system slowly revolved from the ceiling, a stuffed boa constrictor stretched across the foot of his bed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His migraine was not helped by the pungent cigar feeding toxins into his system. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

What if my parents’ God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Did writing systems spread by being copied, or did existing systems merely inspire neighboring peoples to invent their own systems? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath as the system logged me in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some radical group was holding a community meeting about police brutality, the new three strikes law in California, and the expansion of America’s prison system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In this way the Babylonian system was not so different from the system we use today. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But the fact that only a few of the lunar craters have extensive ray systems also reminds us that, even on the Moon, some erosion occurs.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whistles blew, both benches emptied, coaches sprinted to the floor, Mr. Dacus wrestled Jim Don Cooper to the court, and the man on the P.A. system pleaded for the fans to remain in their seats. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a boy, the solar system was thought to contain thirty moons. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After all, she designed the system, so of course she would describe it in the best possible light. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The system serves to redefine the terms of the relationship of poor people of color and their communities to mainstream, white society, ensuring their subordinate and marginal status. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy’s model provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth, however, is that rates and patterns of drug crime do not explain the glaring racial disparities in our criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But then I realize that writing papers for Mr. Nolan is just another American system I need to game, as Pri would say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They have been recovered from most of the major five systems and even from streams of groundwater flowing unseen through the earth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And for students there are sharks with the blood drained out and yellow and blue color substituted in veins and arteries, so that you may follow the systems with a scalpel. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Covering more than fifty encryption systems, the book testifies to the doggedness and ingenuity of Elizebeth and her team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A number of modern-day nations, like Israel and Saudi Arabia, still use a modified lunar calendar, but 6,000 years ago the Egyptians came up with a better system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He is mildly surprised that there is no discernible filing system. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mollie welcomed the verdict, but, as White knew, there were some things that no successful investigation, no system of justice, could restore. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Pa let us get it all out of our systems and then he said, “You had your fun. I need you to listen. Really listen.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It is a familiar form of black complicity with racialized systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Only after years of working on criminal justice reform did my own focus finally shift, and then the rigid caste system slowly came into view. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Do we need a new system of research management, with all the targets in clear display, arranged to be aimed at? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As of June 2001, there were nearly twenty thousand more black men in the Illinois state prison system than enrolled in the state’s public universities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many icebergs are so large that they create their own weather systems. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And now the OIC was on the PA system, telling all gallery officers that inmates were on the go-back, and to open their end gates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My goodness. Somebody needs to learn resilience. It’s a miracle you’ve gotten this far in the pageant system, Miss New Hampshire. I myself slept just fine.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mondrian has laid out his colored “tiles” along a grid system that appropriately resembles a city map. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pretty sure that the Thrift Market or Holman’s would not approve of this new monetary system. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

People could write new applications that allowed selected systems to work together, but in general this was limited to planned exchanges between PCs within the network of a single company. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bigger the crime they claim, the more cred they got in the system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But isn’t this system still doing what it’s supposed to do? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Overall, however, the United States was slow to adopt this type of system, so Elizebeth did Donovan a big favor by setting him up with one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris said they knew winter was coming soon, and they had to get all the noise out of their systems. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The avian throngs Audubon saw were “outbreak populations—always a symptom of an extraordinarily disrupted ecological system.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, the election of Barack Obama to the presidency creates an extraordinary opportunity for those seeking to end the system of mass incarceration in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She said people should get things like that out of their systems when they were young. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its hydrofoils were retracted, but with the carbon- polymer hull shattered, Nailer could see into its workings: the huge gears that extended the foils, the complex hydraulics and precision electronic systems. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t the first trip through the criminal justice system for either of them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Some stars may be surrounded by millions of lifeless and rocky worldlets, planetary systems frozen at some early stage in their evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were folded into purses and knapsacks, but here the system tended to break down. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lots... of programs use the Internet: electronic mail, for example, was around long before the global hypertext system I invented and called the World Wide Web.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It hit me that this system was much older and stronger than the other. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many such systems used in tournaments, and they’re as complicated as abstract mathematical theorems. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

How does the design of the system help to ensure the creation of a massive undercaste? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hawaiian labor corvees built elaborate irrigation systems for taro fields yielding up to 24 tons per acre, the highest crop yields in all of Polynesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Screw the system, man. You’re beautiful. I’m beautiful. This table is beautiful.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The root system of the entire field weakens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The captain saw him straining, grinned, and took him up to the con where a scope and photograph system shot distance pictures of the horizon and then magnified them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Communication with one’s family is a human right; it should not be restricted by the artificial gradations of a prison system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t the focus be on improving ourselves, rather than challenging a biased system? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In this country, for example, we have a multiparty system at present, but so far as the non-Europeans are concerned this is the most vicious despotism that you could think of. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind his desk, a bay window overlooked the cattle carcasses swinging down the conveyer system linked to the killing floor above. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In health class they had done a unit on body systems, bones, nerves, and organs. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

"If I were spending a month alone," Hannah said yesterday, "I would start a meditation practice. It's clinically proven to lower blood pressure and boost brain activity. It even helps your immune system." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He called his system ‘The Well-Tempered Keyboard’, landmarked for ever in history by his composing two companion pieces, a prelude and a fugue, for every one of the newly adapted key-families. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

All racial caste systems, not just mass incarceration, have been supported by racial indifference. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The only people allowed inside the club tonight are the official Warcross players, the employees of Henka Games, and a smattering of Warcross fans who were picked by a lottery system to attend. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The trauma of having found employment had affected his valve negatively, and he was waiting until the warm water in which he wallowed like a pink hippopotamus had a calming effect upon his system. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the PA system crackles, and we hear the principal’s voice over the loudspeaker. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her country’s new leaders were now attempting to improve life with an untried system of government called communism, in which property, goods, and services are owned by the community and shared according to need. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He stressed the importance and vitality of the tribal system and traditional leadership, and did not want to reject a system that enshrined those things. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit themselves to dismantling this new racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the flying machine and the control system sound funny, you have to keep in mind that these machines were among the first ever built. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s always a shock to the system to reenter it; just to read a chapter she finds she has to slow down her breathing and go into a trance, like a hibernating bear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We’d learned so much in four years, putting the right people into place around us, building systems that generally worked. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Please do,” Ignatius replied, his lips quivering, and prepared another hot dog to quiet his trembling nervous system. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The system of extended-family clans, of Hearths and Domains, though still vaguely discernible in the Commensal structure, was “nationalized” several hundred years ago in Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the Aristotelian philosophy of nature could not be adapted to incorporate this peculiar anomaly; if there could be such a thing as a new star, then the whole system was founded on false premises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was walking back toward the stairs, quietly inhaling the smell of the thirty-two freshly copied diagrams of the New York City water system, when Marcus came out of the stairwell reading a book. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The drawback of the system was that the peasants had no control over where their strips would be. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

There must be many different environments suitable for life in a given planetary system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the system isn’t set up that way.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

However, the radiation produced in a nuclear war, among its many other effects, debilitates the body’s immunological system, causing a deterioration of our ability to resist disease. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole system of capitalistic democracy is—rotten and corrupt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Considering the design of this new system of control, it is astonishing that so many people labeled criminals still manage to care for and feed their children, hold together marriages, obtain employment, and start businesses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The most interesting of the moons of Saturn seems to be Titan, the largest moon in the solar system and the only one with a substantial atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As tiring as it was, he’d loved his job for what it taught him about Chicago’s complex political system and for proving that his organizing instincts could work on a larger scale. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It is really a triple system, two stars revolving around each other, and a third, Proxima Centauri, orbiting the pair at a discreet distance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This alone makes it extremely anomalous; it means that our planetary system consists of four rocky inner planets, four gassy outer giants, and a tiny, solitary iceball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rader pointed out that aside from any non-sanctioned matches, the official match for the World Championship would be in 1975, and it would consist of Bobby against whoever qualified through the Candidates system. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And in their final report to the government, Tocqueville and Beaumont wrote, One cannot see the prison of Sing-Sing and the system of labour which is there established without being struck by astonishment and fear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they thought I’d gotten all the crazy out of my system for now. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

One of the ways the Soviet government successfully put this into practice was through a school system that integrated boys’ and girls’ education. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Gonzales talked about how the system is supposed to work: police officers investigate, make arrests, and then hand the process over to the judicial system. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The new law requires the public school system to abandon any programs that involved bilingual students. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She pushed her way through the door, letting go of any worry about security systems or alarms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I waited to die, for the bees to cover every exposed inch of me in stings that would shut down my nervous system. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The suitcases, the queues, the wailing babies, the soldiers pouring back into the cities with eternity in their eyes—in what system is order increasing? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was even hinted that, if I kept my grades high, it would be possible for me to teach in the city school system. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the very nature of numbers—they can be added together to create new ones—the number system didn’t stop at three. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Any living musicians who did not fully immerse themselves in this system were ‘USELESS’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The drugs from the previous nights, before we were brought to the city, had begun to subside in my system. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The languages and genes of those homeland inhabitants, as well as their livestock, crops, technologies, and writing systems, became dominant in the ancient and modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The significance of this cannot be overstated, for the failure to acknowledge the humanity and dignity of all persons has lurked at the root of every racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It turns out that, with respect to the stars, Venus turns once every 243 Earth days, but backward, in the opposite direction from all other planets in the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another common response of ours is to mobilize our immune system. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the Tunguska Event and Meteor Crater, Arizona, also remind us, not all impact catastrophes occurred in the early history of the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a system, you know. Just give them here, you’re mucking everything up!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I rest my head on his shoulder and tell him about going to the museum and Ahnighito and all the things that had to go right for our solar system, galaxy, and universe to form. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The properties of historical systems that complicate attempts at prediction can be described in several alternative ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

TB programs in developing nations are generally underfunded, resulting in weak delivery systems for treatment and prevention. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And technically, I also got an Abnegation result—according to the system. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At issue, he said, was local control and the right of a school system to determine in good faith the grade of a student without interference from anyone else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, his system precisely anticipated one put forward by Tycho Brahe some eighteen centuries later. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Chances are his train was late, because in 1984 there was a fire somewhere on the New York system every day and a derailment every other week. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The institution of a legal, government-sanctioned racial caste system was overturned in 1994 with the first democratic elections, but its effects still haunted the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Once again, the answer lies in the system’s design. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Groves signed off on the new system in March, launching another round of frenetic experimentation in Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then came the things I could disassemble, like the crew seats, several of the backup systems, and the control panels. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I shuffled over to the toilet, a large flat-screen monitor mounted on the wall switched on, and the smiling face of Max, my system agent software, appeared on the screen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Double Red. Why do we go from A-22 to Double Red? What kind of system is that?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The planets are the old-timers in the inner solar system; the comets are the newcomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Z and her army of associates had only a few days left to smooth out any kinks in the library’s complex operating system. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Foreigners who traveled to the United States often experienced the caste system firsthand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But the victory in court, instead of inspiring faith in the system, seemed to inspire the exact opposite. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This system of government worked as long as the king was not challenged on important matters. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In Chicago, like the rest of the country, the War on Drugs is an engine of mass incarceration, as well as a major cause of gross racial disparities throughout the system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some aspects of Islamic law are observed in Iran's legal system, but today the country mostly operates under civil law, ratified by the parliament. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Spaulding, like the majority of the black elite in Durham—and throughout the nation—didn’t challenge the system of white domination so much as attempt to work within it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We have got to use our legal system to protect our God-given freedoms. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Television turns out to be powerful because it so effectively plays the top-down and bottom-up attention systems against each other. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had not, to my knowledge, been accused of committing a crime, and yet I was now involved in a system of tests and appointments. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some alt rock was blaring from her paint-covered Bose docking system. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But “standard” by then included some remarkable safety technology, like an antilock braking system, which allowed for swifter stoppage time and had first been developed in the 1960s. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But we have a reasonable doubt, and this is a safeguard that has enormous value in our system. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single canal system could carry enough water to irrigate an estimated ten thousand acres. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ghohg had installed his own magical early-warning system: long, monstrous nerves that snaked through the hills and would jolt when a distant guard stomped on the other end. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Any wonder, then, that many youth embrace their stigmatized identity as a means of survival in this new caste system? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon the road behind him was dotted with spectators following him to the useless gates holding nothing from a broken system, torn down by the words of a dreaming old lady. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As the warren grew, so Woundwort developed his system to keep it under control. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every individual person's immune system responded robustly to the vaccine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

From my reading of Marxist literature and from conversations with Marxists, I have gained the impression that Communists regard the parliamentary system of the West as undemocratic and reactionary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the Soviet one-time pad system had a weakness. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the porch with Joel, watching his customers buzz-ing about, I could see part of that new food system taking shape. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“This is not a system that needs tinkering around the edges, this is a system that is broken almost everywhere you look,” a panel of state-approved correctional experts concluded in 2006. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then, he put his arm on my shoulder and told me to get it out of my system before Dad came home. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The head functions like an internal GPS system, and the position relative to the head and the tail gives each segment a unique “address” in the embryo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And there are monuments from before the birth of Christ that do not bear zeroes themselves but are inscribed with dates in a calendrical system based on the existence of zero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, the PA system crackled to life. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He tells Pa that he finds the whole system of religion loathsome. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like the earlier system, Jim Crow seemed “natural,” and it became difficult to remember that alternative paths were not only available at one time, but nearly embraced. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although the organization included racial justice among its core priorities, reform of the criminal justice system was not a major part of its racial justice work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To put the matter starkly: the current system of control permanently locks a huge percentage of the African American community out of the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Certainly, the current system can seem rigged to produce that result. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Yet it has been changes in our laws—particularly the dramatic increases in the length of prison sentences—that has been responsible for the growth of our prison system, not increases in crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If something akin to a racial caste system truly exists, why has the civil rights community been so slow to acknowledge it? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Water, sewer systems, and other public services that supported the white areas of town frequently did not extend to the black areas. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It had never developed, however, into a comprehensive system—operating instead largely as a matter of custom, enforced with varying degrees of consistency. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Say what you like, trial by jury is a sound system.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was there so the scrivs would have easy access to the ventilation system. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was being used as the outlet for some sort of air-conditioning system. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They could travel from one culture to the next on unwashed hands or used pipettes; they could ride from lab to lab on researchers’ coats and shoes, or through ventilation systems. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Never did I seriously consider the possibility that a new racial caste system was operating in this country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

These foreign holdings or “cleruchies” not only put underused land back into taxable cultivation, but also afforded the king what was essentially a countrywide system of garrisons. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But its effect on the nascent science was profound: it locked a system of thinking into place. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But most of all, she was curious about the world and open to other people's belief systems. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This primitive warning system that is meant to serve us, can, instead, enslave. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is much more like a factory, where masses of people must do every step right, on time, together, or the whole system collapses. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was fond of Cuba, not, I thought, for its political system or ideology, but mainly because of its remarkable health statistics. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This system worked pretty well for almost forty years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

To best illustrate a polyrhythm, the following system, known as the T.U.B.S. or Tiny Unit Box System, was developed as a way for participants to visualize the inner workings of a polyrhythm. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to worry them. They have to believe I can take care of them, otherwise our system wouldn’t work.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Determined to apply economic pressure peacefully, black protesters let the nearly empty buses rumble on by like green ghosts, ignoring the doors that snapped open invitingly at the corners, and devised their own transportation system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It’s like the system is set up so you don’t succeed. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are exactly opposite in effect. Atropine speeds the nervous system, rapid heartbeat and so forth. Amatoxins slow it down.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The incredible thing is that, for the first few hundred years of the first millennium ad, before a universal notation system emerged, all of the chant that monks and nuns sang was memorised. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The system verified that I was on the chat room’s access list and allowed me to enter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On welcoming me aboard he told me that I was first to work in the bookkeeping section, sorting and filing checks according to some intricate accounting system. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The punishment used for small children was a regulated system of smacks with the discipline wand: a thin, flexible weapon that stung painfully when it was wielded. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s wonderful to see that you’ve done well since your family abandoned the lifestyle and value system they believed in.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There’s always pot at Aaron’s house; he has a room with an entirely separate ventilation system and lockable door that his parents could rent out as another apartment. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

With felonies — serious crimes — on the subway system at an all-time high, Bratton decided to crack down on fare- beating. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than three thousand of those children qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a common measure of poverty within a school system. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I certainly hope it isn’t snowing up north. My system simply will not function under those conditions. And please watch out for Greyhound Scenicruisers along the way. They’ll demolish a toy like this.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when released from the system’s formal control, the stigma of criminality lingers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The concept of a World Wide Web—a system for creating, organizing, and linking documents so they could be easily browsed over the Internet—was developed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

An inflatable solar system hung from the ceiling, with the sun and eight planets scaled to size, along with various starship Enterprise models. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of such locations in our solar system. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was a system that Indians were abandoning in ever-rising numbers at the time when Europeans came. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“So you spend years developing the perfect organizational system, which even has a convenient place for your historical-fictional-travelogue-memoir. You and the scrivs spend decades slowly identifying, sorting and reordering tens of thousands of books.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There, cut off from all communication, I was truly alone, the only person in the solar system who could not even see the planet of his birth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned about Margaret Thatcher and the Thirty-Eighth Parallel and the Cultural Revolution; I learned about parliamentary politics and electoral systems around the world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the past, the criminal justice system, as punitive as it may have been during various wars on crime and drugs, affected only a relatively small percentage of the population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She’d also had three cups of tea, and thus nine cubes of sugar, which meant she had enough fuel to power an electro-plasma system. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique is thirteen miles from the heart of Mexico’s rail system. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like many other amateur code breakers, he challenged her to break some messages in a new system that he himself had devised. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Of course he won the video game. But he doesn’t know diddly about the Dewey decimal system. That’s why I beat him in the book reshelving game.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Guards could win admission to college if they caught an inmate trying to escape—an incentive system that ambitious guards seized upon. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We’re in physics class, and the assignment is to set up a pulley system. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The ramp retracted, and there was a sharp hum as the ship’s security system activated. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we despised the classification system, most of the men had by that time risen to at least C level, where they were permitted to study. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the water that was still in the sewer system when the water was turned off. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Although we criticized it, we could not ignore it: the classification system was an inflexible feature of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, as the systems of control have evolved, they have become perfected, arguably more resilient to challenge, and thus capable of enduring for generations to come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the most efficient system, but Mr. Archie and his daughter, Anna, were always there to help you find what you needed. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was aware of it—everybody in town was—but up until the sixth grade Permian was off-limits to him because the school system was segregated. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took an Italian monk, immortalised as Guido of Arezzo, to crack the code in around ad iooo and give Western music its unique system of notation, still in use today. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Seashells are lined along every available surface, shells on the sills and on the dresser and jars full of pebbles lined up on the floor, all arranged by some indiscernible system, and here, here! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I guess that’s why we have police and lawyers. There’s a whole system in place. Do bad things, go to jail. Do really bad things, kill people, and you get a death sentence.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My grandmother supervised his menu religiously, feeling guilty perhaps about earlier things she had run through his system. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He theorized that the organization of the central nervous system and neural networks were involved with and impacted attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This pattern, dating back to slavery, has birthed yet another racial caste system in the United States: mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Under this system, Fischer emerged a half point higher than Bisguier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Here, in short, was a man with an authority problem, with a strong sense that the system wasn’t working, who had been the recent target of humiliation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my experience, people who have been incarcerated rarely have difficulty identifying the parallels between these systems of social control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I’d set up a bill-paying system and gotten everything entered and paid, Auntie Buzz had turned a nice profit in the past quarter. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that my system was so clean that the joint had already taken effect. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The group encouraged researchers to use protective measures, like working under hoods with suction that pulled air and potential contaminants into a filtration system. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Water makes an ideal solvent system for organic chemistry to work in and stays liquid over a wide range of temperatures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The graffiti was symbolic of the collapse of the system,” he says. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to flaunt their electrical system and their resources. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Restricting signs to those for single consonants was only the first of three crucial innovations that distinguished alphabets from other writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t a security system need electricity, too? she told herself. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You triggered the alarm system,” Joe said, shaking his head like he wasn’t sure why he was explaining himself. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For some, the characterization of mass incarceration as a “racial caste system” may seem like a gross exaggeration, if not hyperbole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was kill or be killed in my house, and Mommy understood that, in fact created the system. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is a continuous gradation from triple systems through loose clusters of a few dozen stars to the great globular clusters, resplendent with a million suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was air-conditioned, through a system that blew air over ice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“What system is in place so that no part of the government becomes too powerful?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ve often thought the belief systems of the witch clans would reward investigation,” said Hallgrimsson, “but my own studies led me elsewhere.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, I believe that the similarities between these systems of control overwhelm the differences and that mass incarceration, like its predecessors, has been largely immunized from legal challenge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She blabbed hysterically about Billy and the airplane crash, and then she put her car in gear and crossed the median divider, leaving her exhaust system behind. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A “grand canonical ensemble” is, oddly enough, the proper term for a quantitative model system in thermodynamics, borrowed from music by way of mathematics. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because numbers are used in music to identify everything from beats to intervals to harmonics to what fingering to use, this naming system is sometimes less confusing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That’s because television plays to our attention systems in extraordinary ways, using light, sound, and story. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, the Mayans had a number system—and a calendar—that made more sense than ours does. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

One of the things I had to learn was the guidance and navigation system. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the memory interacts with the system to be remembered, it will definitely be in one state or the other, according to the state of the system. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, that procession of terrifying figures was destroying Barrabas’s nervous system. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

See if you can reach the remote system. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But the famous punk-protector system of popular lore seems to be outdated or exaggerated. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way the system works in South Africa is that you’re arrested and held in a cell at the police station until your bail hearing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It is not realistic to rely on a food system that poisons the planet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Challenging these forms of racism is certainly necessary, as we must always remain vigilant, but it will do little to shake the foundations of the current system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The noun system of English provides a writer with ways to distinguish entities the reader is being introduced to for the first time from the entities he already knows about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The bus boycott was a way of expressing anger at the system at last. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Rather than a system, Schulwerk combines instruments, singing, movement, and speech to develop children’s innate musical abilities. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They might have been a solar system of their own, with nothing rise in space, as they went round and round among the dunes and coarse grass of the estuary. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 36 BCE they had developed the concept of zero and sophisticated calendar systems. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The system took care of the young criminals on its own. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

However, detailed archaeological studies have shown that complex irrigation systems did not accompany the rise of centralized bureaucracies but followed after a considerable lag. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The public-address system blared the usual Monday- morning announcements about bake sales and soccer practice. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It seemed obvious to him that the Permian system was prejudiced against him—it had rules for blacks and then rules for everybody else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we compare our system of knowledge with theirs then theirs is evidently the poorer one by far. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Since some 15,000 people were jammed into an area meant to house 5,000, at most, the sanitation system was deplorably inadequate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Hamilton did not design his system, as his critics frequently claimed, primarily to enrich the commercial elite. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the Yorktown’s computer system tried to divide by zero, 80,000 horsepower instantly became worthless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Apartheid was a police state, a system of surveillance and laws designed to keep black people under total control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were searching the cosmic radio background—that is, radio sources far beyond our solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside Vogel's bomb, the full current of the ship's internal lighting system flowed through a thin, exposed wire. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about how the poison had been out of her system for the past six weeks and how much hope we both had. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But there’ll always be some people who will do extremely well, and they will loudly swear to the efficacy of whatever system they’ve used. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the whole, they preferred systems that were simple to memorize. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then he reached up and pulled back the grille of the air?conditioning system and reached far back inside to the right and moved still another sliding sheet of metal and took out a book. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not a system that allows for deviating. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a pulley system,” I say, “for the trays. I’ll go up and drop it down.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Once again, complicity with the prevailing system of control may seem like the only option. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But at the time, even the existence of the recording system was secret. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But if people stopped buying that sugar, the whole slave system would collapse. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

How the players chose to play those chords could alter from performance to performance; it is a rather non-prescriptive, jazz-like system in that respect. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This was before his father’s murder by the Klan, his mother’s emotional breakdown, and the subsequent scattering of his siblings and himself into an inadequate and inattentive foster care system. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We tried hard to build a cooperative community and a local food system, but at the end of the day it wasn’t successful. This is just lunch for most people. Just lunch.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His central theme was that no new African nation, trying to decolonize itself, needed any political system that would permit division and bickering. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The microfloras of animal intestinal tracts are part of the nutritional system. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After supper Gilly did her homework, knowing it was useless, that Miss Harris would never see the neat figures, row on row, that proved that Gilly Hopkins had met and mastered the metric system. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He knew the Copernican system could work only if the cosmos was much bigger than the Ptolemaics had imagined, but he did not correct his father’s figures for the dimensions of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“If I don’t remind her, the house system will,” he says. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is the largest road system in the world in the control of a single body. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

An “interracial racial caste system” may seem like an oxymoron. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For this, you need centralized authority, elaborately detailed time schedules, and some sort of reward system based on speed and perfection. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary imposition of the death penalty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

From bacteria to elephants—from red-eyed flies to blue-blooded princes—biological information flowed through living systems in a systematic, archetypal manner: DNA provided instructions to build RNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sails themselves were not canvas at all, but solar sheets, designed to feed electricity into the system and add to the power available already from roof skin solar cells. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

You, the jury, are part of this system of laws. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where could Western music go once - as it seemed at the end of the nineteenth century - all possibilities of the existing system of twelve notes and key-families had reached saturation point? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

None of the crucial developments preceding political centralization in those same parts of the world were associated with river valleys or with complex irrigation systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You misunderstand. This is not a punishment. Curiosity is human; I merely allowed you to get it out of your system. I have to say, it took you long enough.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Shooters are scored according to a point system that, at day's end, rewards the most accurate of all with the coveted Sharpshooter's trophy. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because nothing like the full-blooded machinery of a modern political party system existed, Adams conveyed his tentative scheme for a bipartisan initiative informally through letters and conversations sure to be picked up by the press. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“At least with the FSEB’s current point system in place, right?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But this is unlikely to be a mere coincidence; more likely, the shock wave produced by the supernova compressed interstellar gas and dust and triggered the condensation of the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can be engaged by the arc of the water in a sprinkler system. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After all, Cade explained, it was exactly what the school system had been trying to do to us for our entire lives: make us all the same. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And Khushal and I came up with a system to figure out where the fighting was. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We need a three- party system in this country, and I think that day by day the fascists are growing in strength. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All incoming hovercrafts have to be cleared by the security system,” she said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The case slowly ground its way through the legal system, and everything went against us. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And until the mess hall system itself could be changed, not much could really be done. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The contractor system was abolished in 1884, due in part to these perennial abuses but also because of the opposition of unions. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, Jesse spends more time online now; the things that draw him there—games, weblogs, chat and messaging systems, open source operating programs—have become far more advanced and compelling. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet its public health system allowed all Cubans virtually free medical care. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He paused, then said, “We all came here together on the same ship from Mars. Not Resch; he stayed behind another week, receiving the synthetic memory system.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Agenas have a system for keeping themselves pointed in one direction. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their spare time, they drew maps of new bus, subway, and streetcar lines, or read up on historical public transit systems. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It touched on so much of what he faced: crime, rehabilitation, the role of the system for good and sometimes ill. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They are part of an international movement to change the global food system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Since I have access to the wireless code, I decide to take a look at the Jamison system. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The yellowish walls are lined with dark-green lockers, and there’s an auditorium and a P.A. system. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The system that kept the black race at the bottom of American society was so deeply rooted in the nation’s history that it was impervious to the country’s ideals of equality. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

If he were lucky, he might get to do some programming, set up some systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have a good system,” I say. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

To the gurgling beat of my greedy throat, pure, delicious, beautiful, crystalline water flowed into my system. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The clear majority of those subject to harsh mandatory minimum sentences in the federal system are people convicted of drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He introduced a voucher system, which at first functioned as a form of credit, but gradually became a substitute for legal tender. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The division of the liberal arts is not accidental; it articulates a coherent system of thought. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, ladies,” she says, and there is an instant and earsplitting feedback whine from the PA system. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

These systems were modeled on the theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor, an industrial engineer, who argued that companies should be run “scientifically,” with each worker’s task minutely analyzed and quantified. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then he pulled himself together and answered Sam Adams’s remarks about the spy system. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who would have believed that our entire educational system was wrong after all? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

City officials asked a state court to ban the car pool, claiming it was an unlicensed transportation system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get out until I’ve deactivated the weapons system,” said the General. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Part of his purpose was to prove that the Ptolemaic system was an accurate representation of how the heavens really work and not just a mathematical model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I asked him why then was he part of the “homeland lie” he told me that the best way to destroy the system was from within. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sequoyah’s example can serve as a model for how idea diffusion probably led to many writing systems of ancient times as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Stephen Williams, a survivor of that system, told an interviewer: “Man, man, folks what didn’t go through slavery ain’t got no idea what it was.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shame and stigma are not limited to the individual; they extend to family members and friends—even whole communities are stigmatized by the presence of those caught and thus tainted by the system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Don't ask for any change,” Heidi says, thinking I’m not old enough to understand tipping systems. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Racial discrimination, the Court seemed to suggest, was something that simply must be tolerated in the criminal justice system, provided no one admits to racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Mesoamerican societies during that time created more than a dozen systems of writing, some of which are known only from a single brief text. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be in the system that I was walking away from, but I didn’t know how to get in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

If not for the adrenaline flooding my system, the pain would’ve been totally debilitating. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The American system of higher learning seems to have become a great equalizer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

That means they don’t put down a deep root system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

These days, our education system is more often compared with schooling in Asia—unfavorably. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The reasons and justifications change over time, as each new caste system reflects and adapts to changes in the social, political, and economic context. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was an intricate system of weights and counterweights. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

You have a bad bruise on your arm now, but the pain of that is also numbed, like every other part of your nervous system. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Little would change under such a system, but student leaders thought this was the best deal they could get, and they were probably right. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They floated aimlessly, until one by one they were slowly sucked into the intake screen of our air-conditioning system. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander tracked the progress of 650 first graders from the Baltimore public school system, looking at how they scored on a widely used math- and reading-skills exam called the California Achievement Test. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The most secure system was based on a one-time pad. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The men gathered around Farmer, airing their grievances about the Soviet justice system, which they accused of giving longer sentences to anyone who had HIV or AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I memorize the circulatory system of the cat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime around the fifth century AD, Indian mathematicians changed their style of numbering; they moved from a Greek-like system to a Babylonian-style one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then he got on the PA system and announced that V-Rec was over. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can educators and educational systems meet these needs? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

That means a migrant has crawled on top of a car, been hit by electricity, and short-circuited the system. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Cooperation with the Jim Crow system often seemed far more likely to increase or maintain one’s security than any alternative. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By the mid-1670s, scalp hunting had become part of an organized system throughout the colonies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, Europe received its crops, livestock, technology, and writing systems from the Fertile Crescent, which then gradually eliminated itself as a major center of power and innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler admitted that his system of education was harsh, but it was central to his goal. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Given a writing system that works well for one language, how do you devise a system for a different language? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that all racial caste systems are necessarily predicated on a desire to harm other racial groups, and that racial hostility is the essence of racism, is fundamentally misguided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I do think about politics as a career, but I don’t entirely trust the system. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took a long time, but eventually he traded the laptop until he got a fancy sound system. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Discarded on the floor is the Ptolemaic system, which became indefensible when Galileo discovered the phases of Venus, and Ptolemy himself lies slumped in the background. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Both exhibit regularities, implying that they are not implacable forces but natural systems that can be understood and controlled. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Infection and colitis ulcers had so compromised his system that they were amazed he had been able to play tennis just a few months earlier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To his mind, of course, the fault lay not with his system but with me, for being so thickheaded. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The system described how to categorize living things on the earth, but did not ascribe an underlying logic to its organization. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As he said, even by demon reckoning it took two figures to write my age, for I was eleven by our system of counting and ten by theirs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you know the system hasn’t been changed?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The current system of control depends on black exceptionalism; it is not disproved or undermined by it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Other star systems are accessible to the human species, but only after great effort. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a positional notation system, arithmetic is tedious and hard, as schoolchildren learn when teachers force them to multiply or subtract with Roman numerals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is precisely because our criminal justice system provides a vehicle for the expression of conscious and unconscious antiblack sentiment that the prison label is experienced as a racial stigma. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Unlike the Egyptians, though, the Mayans had a zero in their counting system, so they did the obvious thing: they started numbering days with the number zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Who would control Europe, they asked, and whose system—democracy or communism—should dominate the world? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When every planet in your solar system has exploded? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

With my rustic security system in place, I change out of my wet bikini, dry off, and pull on a T-shirt and yoga pants. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Now I was going to be the food system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But while Beetee thinks he might be able to override certain computer systems, and there’s some discussion of putting the handful of internal spies to use, no one has any really innovative thoughts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Conferences, strategy sessions, and debates regarding how best to build a movement to dismantle the new caste system would be occurring on a regular basis. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I draw tulips and trees, putting a line for the ground and including the root systems in every case. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to destroy America's infrastructure by blowing up factories, power plants, water supply systems, and bridges. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She was in shock, so she felt no pain, but pretty soon the adrenaline pumping through her system would dissipate, and she’d fade, and be gone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had them organized in crates by what systems they were for, some going back to the really, really old games. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If it is centrally organized, the system must be designed primarily for the elicitation of disbelief and the celebration of surprise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might “build on public panic to further destabilize the system by disseminating rumors” and therefore “increase media coverage” and “stress the public health system.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Streams fill and merge to join the Nile River system that drains into the Mediterranean Sea more than 4,000 miles to the north. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe how detailed all of the shark’s different systems were and that I had my hand inside the body of a great white. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

While I would not have considered fighting the political system of the white man, I was quite prepared to rebel against the social system of my own people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a complicated logistics system, infected prisoners were sent to Moscow from as far away as Siberia—with stops, it could be a month-long journey—and there was no way to maintain treatment en route. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“The system is not run by a bunch of racists,” the apologist would explain. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit had delivered what many of them thought was the greatest performance in racing history, and had lost simply because of a fluke in the weight system, and a foul from another horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

However primitive my digestive system may be, it seems to appreciate Lily’s effort, even if the wine is tasteless. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She found it difficult to speak with the poison in her system. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four of my teammates died not so much because Rob Hall’s systems were faulty—indeed, nobody’s were better—but because on Everest it is the nature of systems to break down with a vengeance. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty years ago, the prevailing concept in the American criminal justice system was that everyone in the community is the victim when an offender commits a violent crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the time we reach her room, the silence feels rabid, like any second it'll attack and fry my central nervous system and I won’t be able to speak. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Shannon had managed to get us a Wii game system—I don’t know how. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

To make it worse, something went wrong with the Glow-worm’s lighting system, and the room was in pitchy darkness. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard on the news that it was Rosa Parks, I had several feelings: I was glad an adult had finally stood up to the system, but I felt left out. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The earth’s immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In private, though, Maestlin also explained the Copernican system to a select group of promising pupils, including Kepler. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Malpighi seems to have stimulated Borelli’s interest in living things, while Borelli seems to have stimulated Malpighi to investigate the way living systems work and encouraged his efforts at dissection. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were at a house where two months earlier they’d installed a sprinkler system. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners, meanwhile, began to share information, allowing White to uncover what was described as a system of “gilded favoritism and millionaire immunity.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had come to Hong Kong with a stack of flash drives containing classified NSA documents—documents that detailed a vast system of surveillance the American public had no idea existed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s the reproductive system of a frog. A male frog,” I added. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy straightened his newspaper and realized again that, were his digestive system able to take it, he should have given his time to supervising Levy Pants. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fd turned to the back section, turned past the Z words, past the phases of the moon and the metric system, and finally to the Given Names. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mutual is a case study of this color-caste system at work. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In some cases, the medical system may intensify the outbreak, like a lens that focuses sunlight on a heap of tinder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat burns out of the day; the painkillers burn out of my system. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the system is primarily concerned with the perpetual control and marginalization of the dispossessed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a pause of a few seconds and then we heard, echoing through the cavern of B-block, the voice of Chilmark bellowing over the PA system. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How many backup communications systems does an Ares mission have?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the disease has gone to his nervous system. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

An entire wall of gears and hydraulic systems loomed beside him, the floor of the ship that had now become a wall. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His defeat of the system, after seventy-two hours, had much to do with the fact that he wouldn’t eat anything from the food trays that were brought to him three times a day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We will need to learn more about the cycling of life in the rest of the system, and about our connection to the process. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prisons are big business and have become deeply entrenched in America’s economic and political system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When they came up with a more efficient system that transported the coal directly from the mines to the trains, the Hob gradually took over the space. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lee is a traditionalist, like many in Levittown, and no fan of charter schools or anything else that scrapes money away from school systems. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The astronomical system it described was far from being Ptolemy’s own idea, although he seems to have tweaked and developed the ideas of the Ancient Greeks. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because he was a blacksmith, Sequoyah began by devising an accounting system to help him keep track of his customers’ debts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few astronomers, notably Gerard Kuiper, the Dutch-born astronomer for whom the Kuiper belt of comets is named, took any interest in the solar system at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Now that is bad. Would have been better if you had a tussle in the front yard. Get it outta your system.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A very general system of chemical communication between living things of all kinds, plant and animal, has been termed “allelochemics” by Whittaker. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke wondered if his parents could set up the same kind of system. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

One such place is the Fertile Crescent, where the mountains of western Iran and the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth, bracket the Tigris and Euphrates river systems. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Is that so? I don’t understand the modern educational system at all.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

So the solar system is really quite enormous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All signs of fatigue catapulted out of Thomas’s system. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was a war going on in Afghanistan, a new color-coded threat advisory system being used in the United States, and Osama bin Laden was apparently hiding somewhere in a cave. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The creaking and rumbling came from huge gears and pulley systems that raised and lowered sections of the floor for no apparent reason. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They bring us stories like Patrick the magician, engaging the top- down systems that want to find answers, complete tasks, follow narratives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Your immune system hasn’t been exposed to a lifetime of common viruses and bacterial infections. It hasn’t had time to get experience with fighting these infections. It hasn’t had time to get strong.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The antiunion coalfields of West Virginia came close to the feudal systems of the Middle Ages, where the lower classes worked for landowners and remained indebted to them for life. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But many other pillars of the old system—the polite rejections of women or blacks, the spots reserved for graduates of Choate and Exeter—have crumbled. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The rest of you can watch his progress on the video screens and cheer him on over the intercom system. You are a cheerleader, aren’t you, Haley?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In 1474 the republic of Venice formalized its own patent system by requiring that those wanting to claim a monopoly first register their new inventions with the state. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So I sought out a school conducted on a more indulgent system, and near enough to permit of my visiting her often, and bringing her home sometimes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

If enough people did that together, the corrections system would come tumbling down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The periodic passage of the solar system through spiral arms may conceivably have had important consequences for us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as fog didn’t stop them from flying and an official reprimand didn’t stop them from using their own maintenance system, exhaustion and anxiety attacks didn’t stop them from fighting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Because of Hale’s power, a federal prosecutor warned that it was “not only useless but positively dangerous” to try him in the state legal system. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“My entire nervous system is on the brink of revolt against me for subjecting it to such trauma. Ignore me if I suddenly go into a state of shock.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pacific Northwest Indian artists carved beautiful masks, boxes, bas-reliefs, and totem poles within the dictates of an elaborate aesthetic system based on an ovoid shape that has no name in European languages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Leave the solar system and start looking for an extrasolar Earthlike planet.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Now, on the surface of Jupiter, which is the largest planet in our solar system, I would weigh 436 pounds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead. Get it out of your system.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vast numbers of people are swept into the criminal justice system by the police, who conduct drug operations primarily in poor communities of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This simple design has helped to produce one of the most extraordinary systems of racialized social control the world has ever seen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

From En-gland and Europe, the United States had inherited a system of mainly corporal punishment for crimes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Hang landed inside these walls because of a system that failed him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose a system starts out in one of the small number of ordered states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all alphabetic writing systems, English uses many logograms, such as numerals, $, %, and + : that is, arbitrary signs, not made up of phonetic elements, representing whole words. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But my very educated mother just showed us nine planets! That’s how Mommy said people remember the planets in our solar system.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Too, I wanted no more sunlight until I had the medication sufficiently out of my system to allow me to lighten. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

You also quickly realize that none of the maps you have ever seen of the solar system were remotely drawn to scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In Dr. Posner’s book, Attention in a Social World, he writes that “it is now possible to view attention much more concretely as an organ system, with its own functional anatomy.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s part of the security system. It makes the wall look solid from a distance, but once you get beyond the projectors”—he pointed at the cameras in the trees—“the hologram goes away.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was obvious to any outsider that Cange needed some kind of community health system, but the place was so desolate that it was hard to know where to start. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

To his right, also on the wing, was an engine which powered the two propellers by a gear-and-sprocket system like the one on a bicycle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. But I didn’t know that the jelly beans were a knowledge delivery system.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine now that instead of running a day-care center in Haifa, you are running the Chicago Public Schools, a system that educates 400,000 students each year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Gunn drew up a new management structure and a precise set of goals and timetables aimed at cleaning the system line by line, train by train. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

General William Tecumseh Sherman, in charge of the army, called for order and trust that the legal system would deal with Guiteau. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Moreover, our solar system could not have come into existence by chance but required the deliberate organization of its component parts in order to create a stable system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No caste system in the United States has ever governed all black people; there have always been “free blacks” and black success stories, even during slavery and Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Looking through Dickie Winkleman's old files before the whole system had gone electronic, Dell found that Dickie had put kids in categories. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He insisted that blindness and indifference to racial groups is actually more important than racial hostility to the creation and maintenance of racialized systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was far less pretense in the New York City school system than there is today. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But our faces are also governed by a separate, involuntary system that makes expressions that we have no conscious control over. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Politicians would sometimes say provocative things—such as that his exoneration just proved the system works—which irritated and angered me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

An odd strangling sound comes over the PA system: she is clearing her throat. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the reasons we’re so swept up, researchers began to understand, is because personal communications devices are unprecedented at capturing both our top-down and bottom- up attention systems, even without our awareness. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He had a system for predicting how a horse would do, based on what horse was on either side of him, based on their emotional relationship,” Ekman remembers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe adults thought a teenager’s testimony wouldn’t hold up in the legal system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Although prosecutors, as a group, have the greatest power in the criminal justice system, police have the greatest discretion—discretion that is amplified in drug-law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once a semblance of silence had descended, I got on the public comm channel, which had the same effect as turning on a giant PA system. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

An estimated 170,000 people a day were entering the system, by one route or another, without paying a token. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, Badenhorst was not evil; his inhumanity had been foisted upon him by an inhuman system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dante kept telling the story about the man on the bus and the aliens in Roswell and how some had escaped to El Paso and were planning on taking over the transportation system. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The alarm system has eyes and fingers all over the house. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running system agent software was a little like having a virtual personal assistant—one that also functioned as a voice-activated interface with your computer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This grand Indian irrigation system near Pisco, a coastal town south of Lima, fell to developers’ bulldozers—the photograph dates from 1931. back from the coasts, which were now lined with farms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Home was a misfit operation, lost over the years in a larger system. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Out of habit, she gazed up toward the ceiling, as if she might see her father there on his ladder, tinkering with the sprinkler system, the temperature gauges, and the lights. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a poison in my system and I needed to purge it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A week or two before, Josh Preston had passed out on the playground because, as Mrs. Port explained, he didn’t have enough sugar in his system—something stupid like that. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Throughout our history, there have been African Americans who, for a variety of reasons, have defended or been complicit with the prevailing system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The fungus cells reach far underground and so act as a second root system for the plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With many different islands, there was a variety of political systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the manure smell is okay with me, because it’s unlike anything I’ve experienced before—different than the smell of Bellmont’s sewer system. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, much has changed in my thinking about the criminal justice system since I passed that bright orange poster stapled to a telephone pole ten years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were all stuck in a caste system as hard and unyielding as the red Georgia clay, and they each had a decision before them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The android autonomic nervous system isn’t as flexible at cutting in and out as ours. But as you say, this wouldn’t work for more than five or six seconds.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

With extraordinary bravery, civil rights leaders, activists, and progressive clergy launched boycotts, marches, and sit-ins protesting the Jim Crow system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At first the Greek system of numbers was quite similar to the Egyptians’. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the fact that there is no danger of conquest makes possible the denial of reality which is the special feature of Ingsoc and its rival systems of thought. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

North Korea called itself the Worker’s Paradise, but even as it professed allegiance to communist ideals of equality, it invented one of the world’s most rigidly stratified caste systems. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But surely minority officers’ allegiance to the system was constantly tested in ways that white officers’ was not. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was building up in me a dream which the entire educational system of the South had been rigged to stifle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor whites suddenly had a direct, personal stake in the existence of a race-based system of slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Smith had them all on a password system, and anyone who came near was aggressively questioned. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The killer had secretly created and then marketed soft-ware from within the Minnesota state prison system while participating in a vocational course that allowed him access to the Internet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandoval, decided in 2001, the Supreme Court eliminated the last remaining avenue available for challenging racial bias in the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If he’d been thinking straight, he would’ve switched the ship’s detection system from radar to sonar as soon as they left Charleston Harbor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Prior to 1863 there wasn’t an underground system in London at all.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Art had a system that he had worked out over the many years he had been farming, and while it was relatively simple, it still demanded a staggering amount of stamina. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By this time we had developed a sort of system of communication, a simple enough thing, just passing spoken messages from one cage to the next, like passing notes in school. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some doctors thought the heart and blood-supply system would become confused by the lack of gravity and would not function properly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowden himself had been a part of this system of domestic spying. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Zero times anything must be zero; it’s a property of our number system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the public's disdain for the spoils system, he called for a law regulating civil service jobs within the government. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chapter 4 considers how the caste system operates once people are released from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The great debate over whether black men have been targeted by the criminal justice system or unfairly treated in the War on Drugs often overlooks the obvious. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The only way to prove this, though, would be to gain access to the prosecutors’ records and find out just how many white defendants were transferred to the state system and why. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When a departing Hollywood film crew forgot to pack its loudspeaker equipment, racetrackers appropriated the gear, fiddled with it, and soon fashioned the first race-calling public address system. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the newspapers had praised them as the pioneers of the Cultural Revolution, every high school and college had organized Red Guards to rebel against the old system. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors were oodles of help, but I developed my own system for figuring out what was real and what wasn’t. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By then, however, William Harvey, who studied under Fabricius in Padua from some time in the late 1590s to 1602, was well on the way to explaining how the blood circulation system really worked. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And if the mood strikes, the prosecutor can transfer drug defendants to the federal system, where the penalties are far more severe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Artemis depressed the master switch on the computerized surveillance system. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He slapped another button and braked the system. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light- years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Garfield’s assassination by a disgruntled job seeker spurred the public into demanding an end to the spoils system of hiring government employees. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ten pizza-slice video screens scrolled constantly changing images associated with each category in the library cataloging system. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The deep bass of an expensive car-stereo system approaches from behind. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They get qualified substitutes, and the school system saves money, since they’re paying us regardless.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was J. S. Bach who presented, in around 1722, the most conclusive evidence that an Equal Temperament system could work. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At that moment, something went wrong with the sound system. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racial animus is a predictable and recurring feature of racial caste systems, but it is not necessary for the system to function if there is widespread racial indifference. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I want to be able to use the system to talk like ordinary kids. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The number system in English is highly irregular. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absolutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system–ever. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That and the public school system, which forced her hand. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the OIC announced the return over the PA system, my first job was to clear the galleries of other inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He included the new system in Liber Abaci, finally introducing Europe to zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I believe these animals do not have enough of a nervous system to suffer pain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the vibration problem has been overcome by the exclusive Vibro-Dynamic-Lateral-Anti-Inertial Dampening system.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mathematics wasn’t used for anything impractical, except their system of astrology. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Bernabe likened the painted cattleguard to the sort of stickers—“Protected by Acme Burglar Alarm System”—store owners who could not afford burglar alarm systems put on prominent display in their business windows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The system worked with the same magnetic levitation technology used in Germany and Japan to propel bullet trains with magnets instead of wheels. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The cooling system was so loaded with antifreeze that it could have withstood polar weather. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gatlinburg is a shock to the system from whichever angle you survey it, but never more so than when you descend upon it from a spell of moist, grubby isolation in the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It may be a great storm system a million years old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people till and sow the land, anthropologists say, they set up systems to protect their investment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately the director of the school does not have any system in the method of teaching here, I am very much afraid. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A bit of common sense is overdue in public discussions about racial bias in the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Over the years Abbey and I developed a pretty good system: She keeps an eye on Mom, and I keep an eye on Dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s, scientists were just beginning to understand living systems in chemical terms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Companies installed systems piecemeal or found that one computer-software system was good for the accounting department and another system was best for inventory management and a third was best for e-mail. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If they want to help the black community, why don’t they make some changes to the system first instead?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That every atom in us originally came from a shining light at the heart of the solar system. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

After being laid off from his job at a marketing company in 2003, he now works in an insurance company’s software and systems department. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“If you’re worried, we can always ask the police to beef up the patrol around my house. And we have an alarm system since my dad is totally anxious about how quiet it is here.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Wittingly or unwittingly, they found themselves complicit in the emergence of a penal system unprecedented in world history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But my brother and I had also learned a long time ago how to game the system; when I wanted to go out somewhere, and I knew my parents wouldn’t approve, he’d vouch for me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Annabeth held him as he trembled, the magical fire coursing through his system. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Since the SS recruited Hitler Youth as young as seventeen, former Hitler Youth became part of the inhuman concentration-camp system and the business of genocide. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even though the two families lived inside it, the house was smaller than most of the homes in west Austin where Armpit planted shrubs and installed irrigation systems. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He discredited both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the very book that had been so much a part of his belief system. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener’s helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am supposed to love this system that has been detrimental to the lives of my people. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But our involuntary expressive system is in many ways even more important: it is the way we have been equipped by evolution to signal our authentic feelings. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I thought about calling the practice, bringing forward my next appointment, but I don’t think even their automated system works in the middle of the night, so I went back to bed. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship’s speaker system buzzed with announcements, calls for lost and found children, and misplaced belongings. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had just been assigned by the relief system to sweep the streets for thirteen dollars a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In ghetto communities, nearly everyone is either directly or indirectly subject to the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What was the point of a legal system if it didn’t work a lot of the time? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The laptop served as my portable research library, video arcade, and home theater system. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She also told him what the problem with his system was. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the Babylonian system—with zero in it—it’s easy to write fractions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was clear to the doctors that Ernest’s chronic colitis had severely compromised his digestive system. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A seemingly colorblind system has emerged that locks millions of African Americans into a permanent undercaste, and it appears that those who are trapped within it could have avoided it simply by not committing crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In this system, the students at the best colleges may be diverse—male and female and of various colors, religions, and hometowns—but they tend to share an upper-middle- class upbringing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The school didn’t have its students learn programming by the laborious computer-card system, like virtually everyone else was doing in the 1960s. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Time and again, the most ardent proponents of racial hierarchy have succeeded in creating new caste systems by triggering a collapse of resistance across the political spectrum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally dismantled the Jim Crow system of discrimination in public accommodations, employment, voting, education, and federally financed activities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although some white guardians and administrators tried to act in the best interests of the tribe, countless others used the system to swindle the very people they were ostensibly protecting. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system no longer exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Here is a system designed to eliminate pleasure for everyone involved. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Once the battery runs down, the electronics get too cold to operate, and the whole system dies. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if his eyes had a fighter pilot’s head-up guidance system projected in front of them. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Its caste system was, to him, the just rule of a perfect world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Your top-down system is heavily invested, and it gets reinforced by the bottom-up pings alerting you to what are, in a sense, plot updates. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If the same system is installed downstairs, then each room’s desktop isn’t nearly as secure as she thinks it is. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have never heard it compared to other industrial complexes—like this whole system that is set up to teach women how to act, how to think, what to wear...whoa! Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed like there was faulty wiring in the system, because now she was reverting to anger. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“The old system was keeping up with the Joneses,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s people like you, Ron,” Hermione began hotly, “who prop up rotten and unjust systems, just because they’re too lazy to —” Another loud bang echoed from the edge of the wood. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Totalitarian systems depend on a monopoly of information and force, and too much information started to slip through the Iron Curtain, thanks to the spread of fax machines, telephones, and, eventually, the personal computer. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The most visible sign of the failed system is the astonishingly large caseloads public defenders routinely carry, making it impossible for them to provide meaningful representation to their clients. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before they made it off the dance floor, the room filled with a thundering beat that threatened to blow the rickety old sound system to pieces. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was a weakness in the system, and it helped Elizebeth break the cipher layer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In this system of control, like the one that prevailed during Jim Crow, one’s “debt to society” often reflects the cost of imprisonment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The government says the levels are low enough that our systems can “tolerate” them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As much as I hated the system at that time, looking back I realized that they saved me from myself, and saved my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted South Africa to see that I loved even my enemies while I hated the system that turned us against one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Highly visible examples of black success are critical to the maintenance of a racial caste system in the era of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We’ve got this down to a system, Natalie and I. In some ways she is very predictable, more like a clock than a human being. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early radio system used by aviators to find their way when they couldn’t see the ground was called “radio direction finding.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He ran on a platform of improving the school system, fighting illiteracy, and trying to find innovative solutions to the metastasizing drug trade that was poisoning life in major areas of the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an order to set up a military tribunal system to try the men accused of helping the hijackers. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A marriage was a system like any other, and she knew how to work it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Like the Moon, they all bear witness to an age of impact catastrophism in the early history of the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those schoolroom maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The school was only blocks from our house, and it was here that I first committed the crime of questioning the system. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I asked when the store’s sound system crackled to life. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In some cases, clients had already been in prison for decades and had very few, if any, support systems to help them re-enter society. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I know all about that—it’s like finding out that the factions are an artificial system, designed by scientists to keep us under control for as long as possible. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Next port of call, two years hence: the Saturn system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a giant public health problem, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The meteoriticist Jack Hartung has pointed out that a very recent, very fresh-looking small crater with a prominent ray system lies exactly in the region of the Moon referred to by the Canterbury monks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My system goes back to the inception of the circus,” Marco says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From these special points, then, human voices would carry, echoing and ricocheting, throughout the whole subterranean system. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The crackle of the intercom system intervened before I could come up with anything. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We must cooperate in order that the system operate efficiently. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It is now known that a limulus clotting system, perhaps ancestral to ours, is centrally involved in the reaction. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t just say it; I broadcast it over the PA system to the entire school. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

At a later time, it is more probable that the system will be in a disordered state than in an ordered one because there are more disordered states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That said, no effort is made here to describe, in any detail, what should or should not be done in the months and years ahead to challenge the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I found this one of the most inhumane restrictions of the prison system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then an idea for my report came to me: I would explore the solar system. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In a few cases, we also know something about the individuals who designed writing systems by blueprint copying in the remote past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I usually have to worry only about myself, but when you work in a system, you are responsible for everyone's safety. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If the Baconian system can be summed up in a sentence, it is that science must be built on the foundations provided by facts—a lesson that Boyle very much took to heart. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was like, Nothing’s ever going to happen in a two- party system. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

J. S. Bach wrote his famous "Well-Tempered Klavier" in part as a plea and advertisement to switch to a well temperament system. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“To make a choice, you need frontal lobes active and you need enough competitors in other parts of the brain so that you can engage systems to make a decision.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It means the destroying of an old system, and its replacement with a new system. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another major difference among agricultural systems involved the main sources of calories and carbohydrates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now she started on state-of-the-art systems for Donovan and his spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

More than 5,000 years ago, before the time of the pyramids, the ancient Egyptians designed a system for transcribing their decimal system, where pictures stood for numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They may not be remembered individually like Fannie, but throughout history many ordinary people had the courage to risk their lives to fight a system they believed was unjust. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“They went' in and out of production, which suggests to me that we are looking at a long-term but dynamic system.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On any planet, no matter what its biology or social system, an exponential increase in population will swallow every resource. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From below came the gurgle of running water passing through the Stockyards’ sewer system. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some people feel that using such intervals in medieval music is not only more authentic, but sounds better too, since the music was composed for this tuning system. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t agree with his digestive system very well, though. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The subway wasn't running, due to an electrical fire that had knocked out half the system. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The justice system employed almost 2.4 million people in 2003—58 percent of them at the local level and 31 percent at the state level. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Figuring out the transit system and its schedules was the land of problem-solving exercise he relished. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, cosmetic diversity, which focuses on providing opportunities to individual members of under-represented groups, both diminishes the possibility that unfair rules will be challenged and legitimates the entire system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’s built a complex farm system around this simple idea. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Black people’s dogs are more for protection, a poor-man’s alarm system. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This theory, like Huygens’s theory of oscillating systems, grew out of a piece of practical work connected with astronomy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If you’re going to stay here, you have to get something in your system. If you don’t, it’s back to class.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

This is merely another way of saying what we have known for decades: the development of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems will, sooner or later, lead to global disaster. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basically, the Sheep are the defenseless majority who are completely unwilling to acknowledge the inevitability of real danger, and trust the system to take care of them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The resulting volume of garbage overwhelmed its disposal system, which consisted of janitors bumping large barrels of fetid garbage down the same three flights of stairs used by customers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For about ten days we had a sort of system. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

If there is one thing she hates most about being in the foster care system, it’s this dependence on people you barely know, your vulnerability to their whims. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He kept a close eye on his handpicked SIS unit as they fought to crack German, Italian, and Japanese systems, but for the most part he let them get on with the job by themselves. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Behind him he heard the lawn-sprinkling system jump up, filling the dark air with rain that fell gently and then with a steady pour all about, washing on the sidewalks, and draining into the alley. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a pretty great system, from the baby’s point of view. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Pilots were at the top of that ranking system. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Devised by French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon, the system required police to make a precise survey of the dimensions and physical peculiarities of suspects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As with language, the system is governed by genes, and there are genetic differences between species and between inbred animals of the same species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liquid ammonia would make an even better solvent system, because ammonia is very abundant in the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always called the grading system new wave, and said things like, Charter don't mean smarter. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

You met him at the door and started fighting with him because he’d been drinking gin, and you said gin made him wild because it did something to his system. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Justice is trying to work with the police. With lawyers. Trying to change the system.” she said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“In the late sixties, early seventies, I don’t think there was anyplace else that was exactly like Michigan,” Mike Alexander, one of the pioneers of Michigan’s computing system, said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But the coincidence rests on a cheat—using dates from two different calendar systems. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each time, when the system saw that I’d drifted off, it sounded a warning klaxon in my ears, jolting me back awake. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s passed to me, wrapped up in a concise delivery system, but I pass it on. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The two-bottle system, supplied by Jay, gave Washington the secure form of writing that he wanted. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My short time on death row revealed that there was something missing in the way we treat people in our judicial system, that maybe we judge some people unfairly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But my father, respecting my grandmother’s last wishes, left Gerald alone to the justice system, which ended up sending him to prison for eighteen months. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A natural-born engineer, Rob loved infrastructure, electronics, and gadgets of all kinds; he spent his spare time endlessly tinkering with the solar electrical system or reading back issues of Popular Science. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Influential criminologists predicted a coming wave of "superpredators" with whom the juvenile justice system would be unable to cope. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t understand why you can't work within the system,” she is telling us minutes later. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Are there some things that can so overtake our attention systems as to be addicting? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was our system of staying in touch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Widespread preoccupation with litigation, however, is not the only—or even the main—reason civil rights groups have shied away from challenging the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, bud. With the high-pressure system, chances of snow are pretty low. There won’t be any clouds.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The mettle that it takes to look away from the horror of our prison system, from police forces transformed into armies, from the long war against the black body, is not forged overnight. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mulch stood for a moment, calculating the system’s blind spot. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The weather systems, with winds of up to 200 miles per hour that howl up from Antarctica, are one reason it is so treacherous. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It stands to reason that an immoral and unjust legal system would breed contempt for its laws and regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty-five years ago two men came to Atlanta to teach in the university system. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and William had been instructed to build new secure code systems for the Army. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In chemistry and physics the acid test of one’s understanding of a system is whether one can successfully predict its future behavior. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She has accepted the loss of her limbs but blames an out-of-control medical system for the outcome. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war without much regard for their guilt or innocence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To safeguard our society, a system of laws has been created. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally came the moment for “beam hunting,” or the tuning of the system. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Something about this reflected his relentless need to beat all systems, whatever they were. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are important differences, to be sure, among mass incarceration, Jim Crow, and slavery—the three major racialized systems of control adopted in the United States to date. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I have not been able to find out. The system is rather elaborate.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the political failure to find solutions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Looking around the circle, from one system to the next, I saw that the computers seemed to be arranged roughly by year of origin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The software industry did the first by creating and popularizing a protocol known as SMTP—simple mail transfer protocol—which enabled the exchange of e-mail messages between heterogeneous computer systems. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In subsequent chapters, we will consider how the system specifically targets people of color and then relegates them to a second-class status analogous to Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The centaur did not like to be told that any part of his system was out of date. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But many of my mentors told me that if I really wanted to understand the changes going on in American and international policy, I needed to understand the global economic system. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And to begin the work of restructuring American schools—barely changed in generations despite the ongoing Information Revolution—and their frequently warped structures, procedures, and value systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book focuses on the experience of African American men in the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As long as we do not interfere with the system or a rule or a regulation. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had never been active in abolitionist circles up north but observing the monstrous system firsthand gave him thoughts he did not recognize. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Aristarchus was the first person to hold that the Sun rather than the Earth is at the center of the planetary system, that all the planets go around the Sun rather than the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero wavelength equals infinite energy; zero and infinity conspired to break a nice, neat system of laws. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Kennedy kept Eisenhower’s system, flicking a switch under his desk to activate mics concealed around the room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Which scientists think is the neurotransmitter related to depression...If you have a lack of this chemical in your system, you can start to get depressed.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

One last twist of the sphere, and Leo sent a massive jolt through the system. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Listening to Ms. Freedman, the seventh-grade science teacher, describe the spring unit on the solar system reminded me that I was really going to be there for the entire school year. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Alarmed, many of those countries began creating new systems that were much harder to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race-mixing becomes a crime worse than treason. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Most people got around on boats that traveled the canal system, winding through the different neighborhoods, out to the main flow of the river, and back into the city again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I know. Trust me, we teachers hate them, too. But it’s how the system is set up. With less funding, we’ve had to turn to alternative ways to get through the year.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t use the automated landing system because it wasn’t set up to handle a plane with that much weight. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The large television system and all those French love songs and rara records, with the talking drums and conch shell sounds in them. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

To borrow the base system from Alaska, I hadn’t hit more than five singles in my entire life, so I tried to chalk it up to inexperience. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the National party refused to end apartheid; instead, each year the system was fortified by the promulgation of laws to entrench white rule and privilege. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He acknowledged their place in the system, erecting their big houses on a foundation of numbers, but he didn’t respect them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Subject to a separate legal system for Greeks only, the settlers were beyond the reach of native courts. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In a situation like this, where I don’t even know how to name the various kinds of rooms, The Maids’ special system turns out to be a lifesaver. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo leaned so close his lips touched my ears and ten thousand volts sang through my nervous system. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The place was miles back from where we were, but cops can spread the word about what happens in different places mad quick through their system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There is something very massive, very dense, and very small ticking and purring inside M87—from a region smaller than the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No martinet in the system could have put as much spit-and-polish into a surface as those robots had. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

If the computer’s operating system was rewritten, computer scientists realized, the machine’s time could be shared; the computer could be trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We do not expect an advanced technical civilization on any other planet in our solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may seem at first blush that cooperating with the system while urging good behavior is the only option available, but in reality it is not a liberation strategy at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

About three or four of these a year, known as long-period comets, pass through the inner solar system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For the system to succeed—that is, for it to achieve the political goals described in chapter 1—black people must be labeled criminals before they are formally subject to control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This system depends on the prison label, not prison time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My father is an attorney who’s an expert at using the Big Lie to milk the system. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In McCleskey, the Supreme Court demonstrated that it is once again in protection mode—firmly committed to the prevailing system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Indigenous civilizations were based on advanced agriculture and well-developed systems of governance. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bantustan system was nevertheless instituted; the voters had opposed it, but participated in it simply by voting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A compulsively methodical man, he had elaborate systems in place that were supposed to prevent such a catastrophe. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was no running water, sewerage system, streetlights or privacy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It perpetuates the myth that the primary function of the system is to keep our streets safe and our homes secure by rooting out dangerous criminals and punishing them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She headed into the stacks, jingling her ear with her finger, tuning in her internal Dewey decimal system, another sign she was a born librarian. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My father got me a geography coloring book when he found out that the asinine California school system decided they didn’t need to teach geography anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This kind of management system clearly has its risks. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

That response is predictable because most people assume that racism, and racial systems generally, are fundamentally a function of attitudes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The entire world tilted, his head spinning with a rush of blood through his system. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

From today’s perspective, it is difficult to imagine the ethical system that could justify De Soto’s subsequent actions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The criminalization and demonization of black men is one habit America seems unlikely to break without addressing head-on the racial dynamics that have given rise to successive caste systems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

No matter what his or her genetic endowment, no one person’s immune system has enough different HLAs to identify every strain of every virus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now, I knew nothing about D.C., but I didn’t see how their whole subway system could be less than twelve years old. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In short, the chapter explains how the legal rules that structure the system guarantee discriminatory results. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A twelfth planet has been named in the solar system. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“And to dismantling a system of violence in my school,” said Moss playfully, and they clinked glasses and laughed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Not sure if I could navigate the Worcester one-way system, even on a Big Trak.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In their own different ways, all the radicals in the post-Wagner meltdown - Mahler, Debussy, Strauss and Stravinsky - were dismantling the previous system of musical organisation, whereby ideas carefully unfolded, one developing into the next. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Today, professional linguists design writing systems for unwritten languages by the method of blueprint copying. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband might fall deeper into the abyss of this broken judicial system for lack of this piece of paper? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He and others in the system referred to this mass arraignment as a “cattle call.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jupiter and its moons are a kind of miniature solar system and exquisite worlds with much to teach us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As you know,” he says, “those giant grasshoppers could never actually exist. At that size their respiratory systems would collapse.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except they don’t need to because their grades are already beyond an A. I think PPC had to invent a new grading system for them and Maddie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the laws also protect the accused, and that is the wonder and beauty of the American system of justice. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all her systems were up and running again, Roz noticed that she was surrounded by broken branches and piles of snow. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If the cameras look in the ultraviolet, however, we see a graceful, complex swirling weather system in the high atmosphere, where the winds are around 100 meters per second, some 220 miles per hour. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system or annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen," he wrote. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hence it seems likely that some of them were also the founding crops of highland agriculture, especially as the ancient drainage systems preserved are so similar to the modern drainage systems used for growing taro. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways, it was a system barely distinguishable from the slavery it replaced. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The failure of our legal system to eradicate all of the tactics adopted during the Jim Crow era to suppress the black vote has major implications today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As her mother had done with her, she developed a whole system for communicating with the infant that was growing inside her, turning in on herself in a silent, uninterrupted dialogue. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He helped Federal Express develop its package tracking and tracing system, then moved over to McCaw Cellular, the mobile phone company, built that up, and oversaw its merger with AT&T in 1994. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The chick left dollops of violet-streaked droppings all over the place, due, I suppose, to the dye soaking into its fragile system. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s got an armored hull, she’s got missile and torpedo systems that can blow us right out of the water, and we’d hardly have a chance to pray to God before we died.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"But Shanti and I know the system at this school, so Starry asked us to pick her classes." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An important difference between the new Indian number system and the Babylonian style was that Indian numbers were base-10 instead of base-60. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A different system was used at the textile mills, which, with few exceptions, hired only whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many will wonder how a nation that just elected its first black president could possibly have a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Racial bias in our criminal justice system is simply an old problem that has gotten worse, and the social excommunication of “criminals” has a long history; it is not a recent invention. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But Glenn was able to take advantage of the superb state university system of California, where tuition was free to residents. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We need to come up with a better guidance system before launching again,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At that point, the Transit Authority hired William Bratton to head the transit police, and the second stage of the reclamation of the subway system began. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My math tells me that, including my initial 50-liter burst, I should have added 130 liters of water to the system. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall-writing worked so well in teaching us the code that Dad decided to use the same system to teach us astronomy. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d rigged it up myself: a sandbag painted white, a pulley system. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I think the system persists because we’re afraid of what might happen if it didn’t: war. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Though it is not widely known, the prosecutor is the most powerful law enforcement official in the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The system was responsible for children until the day they turned eighteen years old. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Not the least surprising feature of this economic system was that it functioned without money. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He drifted about, with no ties of affection, with no ambitions, like a wandering star in Úrsula's planetary system. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I was too at first. But they worked out a system.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Such are the distances, in fact, that it isn’t possible, in any practical terms, to draw the solar system to scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the early nineteenth century, a group of reformers set out to establish a system of public education in the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I kept expecting to be discovered and locked out of the system, but it never happened. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At first glance the Babylonian system seems perverse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Once it reached the port's retractor mechanism, the automated system clamped on to the boom and pulled it in, aligning and orienting the probe automatically. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

No child of twelve, thirteen, or fourteen can defend him- or herself in the adult criminal justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We’d evolved this system where we called for particular favourite scenes to be played again—like, for instance, the moment the American jumps over the barbed wire on his bike in The Great Escape. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the Egyptians, the Greeks outgrew this primitive way of writing numbers and developed a more sophisticated system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even as they watched, one of the clippers was unfurling its sails, long rippling canvas streams swishing down into place on fast pulley systems. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I argue that nothing short of a major social movement can successfully dismantle the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he and Linda first moved to Milagro he bought a fiber glass fly rod and some salmon eggs, and that had been one way to work the tension from his system. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In place of the old system, Wanner said, have arisen “new ways of transmitting advantage that are beginning to assert themselves.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Slaughtering the so-called bad guys and fighting the system. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nina was twisting her wrist in a roiling motion, sending waves of nausea through the woman’s system. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe in systems when I’m on vacation,” June says, her body folded halfway over Alex’s, trying to slap Nora’s hand out of the way. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

By the prison system wire, I heard that Shorty also was up for parole. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time of Anna’s death, the informal system of citizen policing had been displaced, but vestiges of it remained, especially in places that still seemed to exist on the periphery of geography and history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

An announcer’s voice then came over the public address system, asking the sellout crowd of eleven thousand to rise for the prayer, which everyone eagerly did. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or were guards normal men who became violent once enmeshed in the system? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo’s new mechanical hoist system had lowered the statue onto the hillside with surprising ease. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was his recommendation that Richard serve the totality of that time in the juvenile system. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On July 9,1979, a spacecraft called Voyager 2 encountered the Jupiter system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heaters dumped heat at full blast into the building, and the air-conditioning system would not kick in. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These standards were not peculiar to any one system of law but were generally acknowledged throughout Europe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s her lifelong system for catching up on their days when she’s at her busiest. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"CLCDR checking all stations are manned and systems ready," he broadcast. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of its readers became foes of the whole system of slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scour the lab and see the standard oxygen nozzle inside the contained glovebox system. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It gave me an idea of what a terrible strain Lucy’s system must have undergone that what weakened Arthur only partially restored her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Neither did the early farmers understand that feeding children with more porridge and less breast milk would weaken their immune system, and that permanent settlements would be hotbeds for infectious diseases. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They taped sheets of plastic over the exterior openings of the ventilation system. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he envisioned a prison system that would dispense with them altogether. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the Aristotelian system, which was later refined by the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maize was a high-status food there even though Andean cultures had developed their own agricultural system, with potatoes occupying the central role. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the time the word was meaningless to me, but termination of parental rights—usually abbreviated as TPR in the system—is a huge transition in a child’s life. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A tiny amount of airborne Ebola could nuke a building full of people if it got into the air-conditioning system. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Bio Gel is self-sufficient, I actually do have a primitive digestive system, mostly for “psychological reasons.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

"Folks," he said, "this is going to be the most 'ghetto' spacecraft ever built. There's only one way to finish that fast: no landing system." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sister branch, Stability and Control, developed the systems that would provide a plane with a smooth ride through rough air. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

An oppressive system cannot be reformed, I said, it must be entirely cast aside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Agent Jones! So ... we have to make a PowerPoint presentation to override the system?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But if something, such as HIV, wipes out our immune system, it becomes so uncontrollable that it can cause a deadly form of pneumonia. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system in “disappearing” black men is surprisingly rare. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Gains can be made, yes, but the new caste system will not be overthrown by isolated victories in legislatures or courtrooms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead. Laugh. Get it out of your system, because when she gets in the car I don’t want to hear any whooping and hollering when she asks ol’ Rock Troy to unzip his britches.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was even a train system to facilitate transporting the miners from the Nut to the very center of the main town in District 2. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"So four independent communications systems became one. And that one broke," Morris finished. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again the courthouse doors were closed, for all practical purposes, to claims of racial bias in the administration of the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

From what I could gather, the company had bribed a bunch of state officials in exchange for contracts to build a better sewer overflow system in Indianapolis. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s always going to be someone kicking you down so they can climb higher. It’s just human nature. Why waste your time trying to change the system when you can just game it?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was part of his system of authority. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He and many other scientists believed that cancer was caused by either a virus or an immune system deficiency, so Southam decided to use HeLa to test those theories. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Here, it is possible to see the way in which our devices play so beautifully to our two basic attention systems: top- down and bottom-up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to forget what I’ve learned, so I make mental diagrams of the respiratory system, the process of condensation, meiosis and mitosis. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Challenges to the racial order during these periods are easily marginalized or suppressed, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identity, and ideology seems “natural.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was her way of rebelling against the faction system. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They also switched to new encryption systems without notice. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I always addressed the tough times many Americans were facing, as well as the inequities within our schools and our health-care system. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The alarm system is on, but Mrs. Johnson knows the codes and has a key. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He copied the model of a Erewar German zeppelin, which lifted off by means of a ot-air system and could accommodate one or more passengers endowed with adventurous temperaments. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides dictating career opportunities, the system shaped geographic destiny, with the core class allowed to live in and around Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Rather than prescribe anything to combat the illness that was now wreaking havoc on my system, the doctor told me my body was doing its job and would rid itself of everything on its own. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Thus, even in those areas where complex systems of hydraulic management did emerge, they were a secondary consequence of states that must have formed for other reasons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not only do they drop the egg from three stories up, but they also have a point system for things like bounce factor and aerodynamic design. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She led him down into the hold of the clipper, to where the hydraulic systems of the ship lay exposed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time any human had managed to leave the Afro-Asian ecological system—indeed, the first time any large terrestrial mammal had managed to cross from Afro-Asia to Australia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only androids show up with false memory systems; it’s been found ineffective in humans.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I would indict the prison system as a whole as a racist institution that sought to perpetuate white supremacy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a note from Mother: These herbs will flush the antibiotics from your system. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My appetite vanished and my digestive system, which required abundant oxygen to metabolize food, failed to make use of much of what I forced myself to eat; instead my body began consuming itself for sustenance. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Peckleman wasn’t nearly as good with the Dewey decimal system as he had claimed to be. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

By collective stewardship of the land and a clan-village system of democracy it avoided giving all the political control and decision-making to a single group. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

They also have deep root systems that help them to recover quickly from grazing or prairie fire. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Despite their having no real bodies, the American legal system treats corporations as legal persons, as if they were flesh-and-blood human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His whole system felt the shock, but the dry suit was holding, sealing in at least some of his body warmth. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours into the flight the pilot came on the public address system to announce that we were passing over Liberal, Kansas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the parlour wall, Faber's house, with its sprinkler system pulsing in the night air. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I get that, but I assure you she’ll be protected. If you don’t trust the system, can you at least trust me?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But he took a deep breath and headed downstairs to the vast subway system that snaked beneath the city like hidden rivers. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A system of ropes and pulleys carried the baskets of stone and trench debris up to the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Reducing ways for others to interfere with the political system gave Caesar more control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It shows the fragility of our attention systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But then, during the first orbit, the capsule’s automatic control system began to act up, causing the capsule to pull back and forth like a badly aligned car. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The propulsion experts at NASA’s laboratory in Cleveland took the lead on the craft’s electrical system and the retrofire rockets built into the craft itself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bobby, Bisguier, and about twenty other players and spectators stood around the tournament director’s desk as he applied the tie-breaking system to determine the winner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She needed some caffeine in her system before she called home to tell her parents she’d arrived. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s so I can make sure we rage against the system so that no one ever has to see a Botoxed face ever again.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

This was unfortunate not only because Ptolemaeus’s system was wrong, but because it seemed to endorse a measurement of the earth’s circumference of 18,000 miles—a significant underestimate. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The auditory cortex has areas that process pitch, while other areas of the brain combine biology and culture to stimulate the limbic system to respond emotionally to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I gritted my teeth at the sinking sensation, anger flooding my system as I tried to yank myself away. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Some scientists toyed with the idea that the spiral nebulae were not distant island universes but rather nearby condensing clouds of interstellar gas, perhaps on their way to make solar systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which meant I could talk about anticyclones and minor depressions but not major storm systems or global warming. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only had the steel company decided to sell the houses, the sewage and water systems and the churches were on the block as well. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your brain could not be more clearly in another solar system. Are you gonna tell me or what?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So far as we've worked out it's not the electronics, refrigeration system, instrumentation, or temperature. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was nothing—elementary—compared to the complex system he and Kenzi had. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I believe that your immune system is especially fragile given what I could surmise about the nature of your upbringing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night Alba went to see her uncle in his tunnel of books and proposed that they apply the same system to his father’s weapons as she had to her mother’s provisions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That may seem a meaningless figure, but look at it this way—it is eight times the total mileage of America’s interstate highway system. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"It’s just that the postal system is so unreliable these days, and I'm trying to track down an old friend through a mutual acquaintance. I want to make sure it actually gets there." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The hood was a complete sensory overload for me, but within the chaos there was order, a system, a social hierarchy based on where you lived. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The outrage about Guiteau boosted support for activists who had been working for years to reform the system, and the reformers gained enough votes in Congress to pass a bill. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The entire network kept in touch by radio, using not one code, but twelve—each for a different part of the system. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pick up Daddy’s iPod from the patio table, our DJ for the afternoon that’s hooked up to the sound system. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Novae occur only in binary systems and are powered by hydrogen fusion; supernovae occur in single stars and are powered by silicon fusion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty much,” Sierra said, breathing a sigh of relief now that it was all out of her system and her friend hadn’t called her a raving lunatic. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Relative to the planet, it was the biggest moon in the solar system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I bonk my head on the inside of my sleep cell as a soft voice speaks over the ship’s comm system, jolting me awake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

These routine encounters often serve as the gateway into the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They also had a symbol for five, indicating a mixed quinary-decimal system, but overall the Greek and Egyptian systems of writing numbers were almost identical—for a time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They organized work forces to construct large irrigation systems for agriculture and to enclose large ponds for fish production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It occurs when an overactive immune system begins attacking the cells that create pigment, or color, in the skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I mean, no, not really. Right now I’m just thinking about how meaningless it all was. The faction system, I mean.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once the alarm spread that the British had left Boston, the system of calling up the Minute Men had worked well indeed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our own solar system there are several bodies that may be suitable for life of some sort: the Earth certainly, and perhaps Mars, Titan and Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the coal on according to a system. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Clearly, the purpose of the black codes in general and the vagrancy laws in particular was to establish another system of forced labor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although the men gathered in the room saw the benefits to such a system, it took several more meetings to overcome the mutual distrust caused by years of bitter rivalry. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not keyed in to their value system. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In those situations, teens are more likely to make decisions with the limbic system rather than the prefrontal cortex. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the early 1940s, biochemists had broken cells apart to reveal their chemical constituents and identified various molecules in living systems—but the molecule that carried the code of heredity was still unknown. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But hidden drawers, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

So is our current system of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The economist Kenneth Arrow has proved a very powerful generalization which shows that something like the above situation characterizes every voting system. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given all of these pressures, it is clear that the choice facing Durham was not between continuing Jim Crow and dismantling the system. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our racially biased system of mass incarceration exploits the fact that all people break the law and make mistakes at various points in their lives and with varying degrees of justification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“After careful deliberation, it is my opinion that desegregation is an idea whose hour has arrived,” said Benjamin Lee Smith, the superintendent of the Greensboro public school system. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The roads and mail system here are like our country, broken. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tolkachev had high-level access to the latest designs of all Soviet fighter aircraft and radar systems. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Old systems of exploitation and oppression are passing away, and out of the womb of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Also,” I suggest, “it could be a system overload. Cellular frequencies get jammed in densely populated situations.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The solar neighborhood, the immediate environs of the Sun in space, includes the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The observation excited the attention of the Austrian Erwin Schrödinger, who made some deft refinements and devised a handy system called wave mechanics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Southam removed some of the nodules to verify that they were cancerous, but he left several to see if the patients’ immune systems would reject them or the cancer would spread. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Years later, when the tribe created its first court system, which adjudicated mostly minor crimes, he was elected one of the three judges. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Dell was too afraid to work with prison inmates and so he set his sights on the public school system. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

One thing is for sure: Schoenberg and his fellow-travellers in the redesigning of the Western note system were not courting a mainstream audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Part of the root system dies and begins to decay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Borelli still saw a role for God in setting up the system in the first place—as the designer of the machine, if you like. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

An air raid blackout signal system, details of which can be found elsewhere in this edition, was established. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because the mountains interfered with reception, in 1954 he erected an antenna on a high ridge and provided one of the first cable television systems in the United States as a free service. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The new caste system labels black and brown men as criminals early, often in their teens, making them “damaged goods” from the perspective of traditional civil rights advocates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was on the other side of the clearing, putting up the string of bells that we used as an alarm system, when she yelled. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The school system did nothing for the “humblest” classes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In this they are like hiv, which also destroys the immune system, but unlike the creeping onset of hiv, the attack by Ebola is explosive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The system, known as servi-cha, or service car, was invented in the late 1990s by government and military elites to milk cash from traders who needed to move themselves and their goods around the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The point to remember, of course, is that when considering the universe at large we don’t actually know what is in our own solar system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

This use and restructuring of previous systems for new purposes is very much like the pattern of biological evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Native Australians constructed elaborate systems of canals up to a mile and a half long, in order to enable eels to extend their range from one marsh to another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Challenges to the system will be easily absorbed or deflected, and the accommodations made will serve primarily to legitimate the system, not undermine it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The solution to the problem of poor performance scores had been a new system of grading that would encourage students to stay in school as well as improve their self-esteem. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, the ggeh was his one enduring vanity, a system paternal, how in the beginning people would come right to the house and ask for some money and his blessing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a whole tribe of men who made a living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The numbness, the lack of focus, the artificial sense of peace when the meds first hit your system. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He raged against the system, if only to his own disciples, calling for a day when scythes would have no limits on gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My body hitches and jerks up as if on a pulley system. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had no inclination to go against the belief system that had formed him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men were parts of the same system, serving a nation rising to its destiny. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I can see its worm heart, which isn’t the shape of a heart, its central artery pumping worm blood, its digestive system, which is full of mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He really doesn’t appreciate some inbred royal baby upending his system. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Another type of intensified food-gathering activity that developed was the freshwater eel fisheries of the Murray-Darling river system, where water levels in marshes fluctuate with seasonal rains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Today, no less than fifty years ago, a flawed public consensus lies at the core of the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even nearby civilizations could spend millions of years in such separate or joint colonial ventures without ever stumbling upon our obscure solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it was not the Greek number system that prevented zero’s acceptance—nor was it lack of knowledge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The thing that most worried him about the Ptolemaic system, typified by the puzzle of the Moon, was the business of equants. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

His instinctive genius lay in unearthing patterns—systems of organization—that lay behind the specimens; not in Kingdoms and Orders, but in kingdoms of order that ran through the biological world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “The system set up by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs...insures that there will always be a Russian world champion....The Russians arranged it that way.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Aristotelian system was Greek, but the Judeo-Christian story of creation was Semitic—and Semites didn’t have such a fear of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Or will we think on longer time scales, with concern for our children and our grandchildren, to understand and protect the complex life-support systems of our planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The set was an annual publication, like the World Almanac, and each is full of diagrams of motors, wiring systems, pumps, silos, balers, and so on. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The new system is keeping up with the Gateses.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The music is tinny and crackly—partly because of the cheap sound system—but I still like it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It would be wonderful to understand how the anthill communication system works. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His endocrine system was now going fully haywire. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In Copernicus’ system, the Earth and other planets move in circular orbits about the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The system on the left uses a water-wheel to drive pistons which pump air, which, by driving a second set of pistons, raises and lowers a bucket. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Earths gravity exerted its force on the satellite and had to be accounted for in the trajectory’s system of equations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The government’s intention in creating the homeland system was to keep the Transkei — and other African areas — as reservoirs of cheap labor for white industry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever devised the Quarter Quell system had prepared for centuries of Hunger Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A facially race-neutral system of laws has operated to create a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Because of the circumstance of your upbringing, we’re not sure about the state of your immune system.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thing is, I have three hearts. The perfect backup system.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It relies mostly on our knocking system, but notes are also passed, and brief exchanges sometimes take place in the visitors’ hall on Thursdays. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When apartheid came, colored people defied easy categorization, so the system used them—quite brilliantly—to sow confusion, hatred, and mistrust. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Race plays a major role—indeed, a defining role—in the current system, but not because of what is commonly understood as old-fashioned, hostile bigotry. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was so good, in fact, that it became—and remains—the operating system on which literally millions of computers around the world run. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Her immune system reacted badly to all the shots: they made her sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, there are three folding chairs at a table immediately adjacent to the bathroom, but hardly anyone ever sits in this, the very rectum of the gastroarchitectural system. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This dramatically changed racial climate has led defenders of mass incarceration to insist that our criminal justice system, whatever its past sins, is now largely fair and nondiscriminatory. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Spies tended to be freewheeling by nature, and they used many different systems to communicate. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The book showed how useful Arabic numerals were for doing complex calculations, and the Italian merchants and bankers quickly seized upon the new system, zero included. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

That is nearly half as old as we believe our solar system to be. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Contemporary observations are changing our understanding of planetary systems, and it is important that our nomenclature for objects reflect our current understanding. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A disembodied woman’s voice came over the speaker system. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t have been the only one to figure out how to dodge the sorting system—who to influence, when to lie. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Yet our nation’s public defender system is woefully inadequate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Saints, no. Get me a system for winning at Three Man Bramble or Makker’s Wheel. That I’m curious about.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Yes, my sin—my greater sin...and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran’s oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world’s greatest empire. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Are they part of a global tectonic system, produced perhaps by fracturing of an expanding or contracting planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours before the doctors began the autopsy, embalming fluid was injected into Garfield's circulatory system in order to stop his body from decomposing too fast. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The result was Polaris, a weapons system that marked Livermore’s “coming of age.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In pointing to school systems he thought were skewed in favor of extracurricular activities, Perot took particular aim at Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father moved wife’s entire family from China to California to form support system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘It was a very localized storm system,’ I said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We want to be regarded as human beings in the land of our birth. And the present political system denies us that right.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the earlier system of racialized social control—slavery—had also been regarded as final, sane, and permanent by its supporters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Blood was pooling in my lower body because my cardiovascular system had forgotten what it was like to pump blood “uphill,” there being neither “up” nor “down” in space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new system of control is traceable, to a significant degree, to a massive bribe offered to state and local law enforcement by the federal government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It helped that some students hacked into the school’s computer system. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We knew early on that the government was fiercely opposed to a winner-takes-all Westminster parliamentary system, and advocated instead a system of proportional representation with built-in structural guarantees for the white minority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colorblind public consensus that supports the new caste system insists that race no longer matters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Another elderly black man pointed out that his people had tried working within the' system for years, with little result. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She said that they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The little one claimed that the whole color system smacked of an assembly-line mentality. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The entropy of a closed system never decreases. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Aristotelian system would outlast Alexander's empire; it would survive until Elizabethan times, the sixteenth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

These four eras are further divided into anywhere from a dozen to twenty subgroups, usually called periods though sometimes known as systems. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Folks love to show off their sound systems just as much as their rides. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

However, when al-Khowarizmi was writing about the Hindu system of numbers, the West was still far from adopting zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Artemis waited calmly for the drug to take hold of his system. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They faced each other like two suns at the center of a solar system consisting entirely of hovering hand mirrors. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some members of the wavering class could move up in the system by joining the Korean People’s Army, serving with distinction and, with luck and connections, securing a lower rung in the ruling party. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“My whole circulatory system thanks you,” Matt said. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up the way I did, I learned how easy it is for white people to get comfortable with a system that awards them all the perks. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had my own surround-sound system built with old car speakers I’d salvaged from the junkers Abel kept in the yard, and I strung them up around the room. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You know a lot about the Dewey decimal system for a motel employee.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

What light do they shed on the other satellites of the Jovian system? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was, the legal system had its own unassailable logic, a logic that couldn’t be shifted. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dennis was at war with the system, but as long as he kept his war out of the house and stayed in medical school, that was okay with Mommy. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the prisoners from New Orleans were in their computer system. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

You might think such a rapid intake of water after prolonged thirst might upset my system. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Because this new system is not explicitly based on race, it is easier to defend on seemingly neutral grounds. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Celia sits with a notebook and pen, attempting to decipher the system the book is written in. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There is a rasping over the PA system. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The system’s largest manufacturer of humanoid robots used in our colonization program?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As indicated earlier, any effort to downsize dramatically our nation’s prisons would inspire fierce resistance by those faced with losing jobs, investments, and other benefits provided by the current system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Grandpa wouldn’t pay to hook into the new water main and sewer system, either. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were numb enough to blame the system for things they were too lazy to change. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The most successful salesperson was offering a product called Touch of Quietude, which sounded more like a feminine hygiene product than a death delivery system. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, Ezzo warns, sleep deprivation might “negatively impact an infant’s developing central nervous system” and lead to learning disabilities. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He had probably set up an entire, elaborate system of false info to throw off anyone who tried to get to him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What about the exposure to those people who had been working on the air-handling system? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cult members, who tend to be firm believers in their system, generally do not consider themselves to be in a cult. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably a turncoat—a programmer who intentionally coded back doors and security holes into a system he designed, so that he could later sell them on the black market. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Or—I’ve been impregnated with a false memory system. Maybe I only remember Garland over the whole time. But—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Surrounding the R-complex is the limbic system or mammalian brain, which evolved tens of millions of years ago in ancestors who were mammals but not yet primates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went to pour myself a glass of water in the kitchen, George’s wife, Peggy, made sure I used a special faucet connected to a water filter system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ma asked this all the time, and I couldn't tell if she really had a hard time keeping up with the grading system of our charter school or if she was just being shady. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I had studied Sweden’s progressive approach to the rehabilitation of criminal offenders as a graduate student and had long marveled at how focused on recovery their system appeared. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the various naming systems may use the same terms to mean different things, so even a list of basic terms is a bit confusing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Even in the arena, you two had some sort of system worked out, didn’t you?” asks Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic that would continue to prove successful for generations to come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This system turned out to be more reliable than working out complicated arrangements with the nervous ambassadors of the foreign democracies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early history of the solar system, there were probably many planets in the process of formation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m cold,” Snowden whimpered feebly over the intercom system then in a bleat of plaintive agony. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Actually the three philoso-phies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As she later noted, one-time pad systems are “really the only unbreakable cipher in existence.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Rice explained that he had merely tested the wheel’s braking system, which consisted of a band of steel wrapped around the axle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Please. I have many things to tell your husband about the banking system here." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I put it in my book of weather systems, between cyclones and anti-cyclones, where it would be safe. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pipes formed one giant rectangle, with no way for any water to enter the system. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The adoption of the new system of control is never inevitable, but to date it has never been avoided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Joined together, the great mass of human minds around the earth seems to behave like a coherent, living system. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps we are only at the beginning of learning to use the system, with almost all our evolution as a species still ahead of us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The reflex-arc response taking place in the upper ganglia of the spinal column requires several microseconds more in the humanoid robot than in a human nervous system.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the last centuries before 3000 B.C., developments in accounting technology, format, and signs rapidly led to the first system of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he went further: in place of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, he proposed his own geoheliocentric system, which was geometrically equivalent to Copernicanism but had a moving sun and a stationary Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

To deny the individual agency of those caught up in the system—their capacity to overcome seemingly impossible odds—would be to deny an essential element of their humanity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was renouncing his imprisonment, our authority, the entire system that had placed him there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The system operates through our criminal justice institutions, but it functions more like a caste system than a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had nothing in his system, but he retched violently. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It could also be argued that the name implied that only a simpleton would believe the Ptolemaic system was correct. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He stayed for his mother, who sat home watching Tony continue moving in and out of the criminal justice system. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She had managed to be a part of five very different sociopolitical systems, though her DNA remained exactly the same. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Native peoples also left an indelible imprint on the land with systems of roads that tied their nations and communities together across the entire landmass of the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Shin was nine years old when the North Korean caste system knocked him on the head. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the world seems to tilt on its axis, like it’s about to roll right off its designated ring in the solar system and float aimlessly into outer space. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We also now have evidence for several other black holes in systems like Cygnus X-l in our galaxy and in two neighboring galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coin’s voice comes over the district audio system, thanking us all for an exemplary evacuation of the upper levels. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Through the long glass of Dauntless's nav system they watched as the ship heaved itself up onto its own hydrofoils, its feral bulk skimming above the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He realized he was taking a stroll across the most dangerous circulatory system in the universe. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t using a word-processing program of any kind—in fact, she was bypassing much of the operating system—and whatever formatting was imposing itself on the words, it wasn’t hers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one end of the fiber-optic system is a transmitter. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The telephone system hardly worked, and it did not seem worth the effort to call any doctors to tell them that he was coming. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arguably, Mauer underestimates the scope of the challenge by focusing narrowly on the prison system, rather than counting all of the people employed in the criminal justice bureaucracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even after apartheid, most black people still lived in the townships and the areas formerly designated as homelands, where the only available government schools were the broken remnants of the Bantu system. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Norfolk teachers’ case was just one of many in their master plan to dismantle the system of apartheid that existed in American schools and workplaces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When the city was built, the brilliant early engineers had adapted these to a system of natural plumbing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday. They thought if I’m going to be in the field with you, it could be a backup system of communication,” says Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It took fifteen years, but in 1979, the authorities announced over the intercom system that the diet for African, Coloured, and Indian prisoners would henceforth be the same. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how could Rome claim to be the seat of the one true Church if its authority could not extend to other solar systems? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Those socks in the mouth got it out of my system. Let’s forget it.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today it takes a few months to cross the ocean of the inner solar system and make planet-fall on Mars or Venus, which are truly and literally new worlds awaiting us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the Arabs took the notation from India, the rest of the world would dub the new system Arabic numerals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Upon release, people with criminal records are discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, and most will eventually return to the system’s formal control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This system seems to be restricted to human beings, since we are the only beings with language, although chimpanzees may have the capability of manipulating symbols with a certain syntax. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries many of the inhabitants of this region suffered from what came to be known as “the Reichenstein disease” — chronic arsenicism with accompanying disorders of the liver, skin, and gastrointestinal and nervous systems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The three basic strategies underlying writing systems differ in the size of the speech unit denoted by one written sign: either a single basic sound, a whole syllable, or a whole word. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not only were the lights about to fail and the supplies about to run out, but the water system was breaking down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Jim Crow, as a system of racial control, was dramatically different from slavery, mass incarceration is different from its predecessor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

However, none of these systems had a name for zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And, whatever its justification in terms of inmate penitence and self-reflection, the Frenchmen immediately appreciated the administrative power of the separate system. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment she will hear the beeps of the security system, the garage door opening, car doors closing, her children’s voices in the house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago had recently renovated its fire alarm system, making it one of the best in the nation. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard his announcement come over the PA system. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is most concerning about the new racial caste system, however, is that it may prove to be more durable than its predecessors. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As Sticky helped his mother into her chair, he launched into a detailed explanation of weather systems and local geography. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are mighty weather systems on the Earth—and in the high atmosphere of Venus and on Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps in another century or two, when the solar system is all explored, we will also have put our planet in order. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If an advanced civilization were to arrive in our solar system, there would be nothing whatever we could do about it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Transcribing the oral number system into written form was a simple task: people just needed to figure out a coding method whereby scribes could set the numbers down in a more permanent form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Book ciphers are easy to read if you know the book and the system of encryption. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Growing rice is too complicated and intricate for a system that requires farmers to be coerced and bullied into going out into the fields each morning. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The root systems of others were badly damaged. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The likelihood of punishment was so low—this was the heyday of a liberal justice system and the criminals’ rights movement—that it simply didn’t cost very much to commit a crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Working as a lawyer in South Africa meant operating under a debased system of justice, a code of law that did not enshrine equality but its opposite. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every fiber of his nervous system leaps awake. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Seems a good system, come to think on it.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Copernicanism led to the idea that the planets shine by reflected light, which was confirmed by the discovery of the phases of Venus; and this killed off the Ptolemaic system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘It would take a very big storm system to do that.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stretchers and wheelchairs were beached here and there against the hissing, knocking pipes that ran and branched in an intricate nervous system along the glittering walls. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In addition, I cannot help but hold a grudge against those in authority who were incompetent, negligent, or looked the other way when the system’s foster parents were harming us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If it were only a little ahead of us—we who are already exploring the solar system—its representatives should by now be here. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the consternation of his many political enemies, and certainly Auburn’s guards, Osborne used his charisma and the credibility earned as an “inmate” to put this system into effect. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president was constantly given morphine, quinine, whiskey, and brandy, which likely irritated his already sensitive digestive system. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

These new glasses have such a better system than the old ones. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At some radio frequencies the Earth has become by far the brightest object, the most powerful radio source, in the solar system— brighter than Jupiter, brighter than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It freed the Indians from the shortcomings of the Greek system of thought—and their rejection of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But the FBI had a system in place to aid their search. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Dr. Throckmorton makes the big talent show announcement over the PA system. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The racial profiling cases that swept the nation in the 1990s may well be the last wave of litigation challenging racial bias in the criminal justice system that we see for a very long time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wonder how the whole Jesus thing works if we’re on a different planet on the opposite side of the galaxy in another solar system. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He said he had always wanted a game system when he was little, but your parents never had the paper.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At Los Alamos, most scientists first heard the news over the public address system. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a high-pressure system moving down from Alaska tonight,” Jack tells us. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I can disable the security system. I’ll need some Amity peace serum, do you have access to that?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then the system asked me if I wanted more information on the Indentured Employee Entertainment Reward Program. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When Mother was away, we were put on an honor system. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a simple system, but I wouldn’t know if Bobby hadn’t showed me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was on good terms with the British grooms and by great good luck, from the point of view of a spy system, intimate with the Colonel’s horse boy, Dove. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a two-party system,” she says firmly, once order has been restored. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each star system is an island in space, quarantined from its neighbors by the light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They live together in dense, interdependent communities, feeding and supporting the environment for each other, regulating the balance of populations between different species by a complex system of chemical signals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an example of how policies and norms once directed exclusively at controlling and punishing the black population have filtered their way into our general criminal justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The doctor said it takes a few days to a week to get into your system,” she replies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Children caught up in this system are the most vulnerable and yet are the least likely to be represented by counsel. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many people were tired of the spoils system that rewarded corrupt politicians. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And, indeed, compared to other animals, humans are born prematurely, when many of their vital systems are still under-developed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an awkward system, and it took me a full year to become reasonably adept, and another year before I could set down every word without begging him to speak more slowly. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1990s, resistance to the emergence of a new system of racialized social control collapsed across the political spectrum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wished we hadn’t gone any farther out, that we hadn’t tried to see ourselves from the outer edge of the solar system. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then the woman acting as David’s proxy—Angela—says, “So you didn’t know the reason Juanita asked you to disable the security system?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad went from factory to factory, installing his time-saving systems, reducing worker fatigue, so as to speed up production. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this system a tiny subset of riders became wealthy, a few lived comfortably, and the rest, the vast majority, had nothing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years before Margaret Draper retired, the district reorganized its school system and sent sixth graders to middle school instead of elementary. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

That s where you have to dig, the old man said, but he explained that this was not the system he used for digging wells around Tres Marias, because he needed no stick. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A teacher ran up behind me and yanked the plug for my system out of the wall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once convicted of felony drug charges, one’s chances of being released from the system in short order are slim, at best. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It only took me about fifteen minutes to figure out the “rules” of the game and to sort out how the scoring system worked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people of color are swept into this system and released every year, yet we rationalize the systematic discrimination and exclusion and turn a blind eye to the suffering. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This, in brief, is how the system works: the War on Drugs is a vehicle through which extraordinary numbers of black men are forced into the cage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were men who were forced to take advantage of this system of substitute-hiring because of serious illness in the home or the dependency of motherless children. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have been cursing the system, but my mom and dad were much more tangible scapegoats. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This may mean that the people who lived in what is now France used a base-20 or vigesimal number system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As you know, our clan system teaches us how we were born and shows us how to grow. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On January 1, he said, computer systems all over the world would fail. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the education system tends to dismiss kids based on their past and not on their potential. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our immune systems keep it in check easily. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At work the day before he’d installed a sprinkler system in the front yard of a house. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were just too many numbers—daily grades, weekly grades, grades for participation, grades for homework, grades for tests—all part of the bewildering Carter grading system under the School Improvement Plan. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas black success stories undermined the logic of Jim Crow, they actually reinforce the system of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To be fair, Hucbald merely experimented with this concept rather than invented it; it had been circulating in musical theories since antiquity, as indeed it had in Indian and Chinese musical systems. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If you check your itinerary, you will see that this is a trip to the edge of our solar system, and I’m afraid we’re not there yet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be water and food—and we can teach them how to use the security system.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I quickly enter the data into the system. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I first encountered the idea of a new racial caste system more than a decade ago, when a bright orange poster caught my eye. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s the one weak point in the defense system around the plant,” Ronneberg agreed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a voice demanded to know why we hadn’t responded to the page over the public address system. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Something didn’t agree with my system. But I’m fine.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Once the drug was in her system, she wouldn’t be able to stop it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was spirit of the body—the clear fluid pumped by the second heart through its own network of vessels, subtler and more mysterious than the primary vascular system. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Aristotle was also the midwife of rhetoric’s place in the liberal arts—making it an object of systematic study and finding a place for it in his system of thought. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The impact of the new caste system is most tragically felt among the young. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the state system, less than 3 percent of new court commitments to state prison typically involve people convicted of homicide. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our top-down, goal-directed system wants to keep in touch, make connections, form relationships, forge partnerships. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In any case, a symbol for zero—the placeholder in the base-10 numbering system—was certainly in use by the ninth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, Dell wasn't supposed to give the kids any kind of classifications, but what good is an organizing system without methods of separation? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The door slides shut seconds later, leaving me in the room with only the glow of Earth’s spinning solar system in a cold mist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is the achievement of the Party to have produced a system of thought in which both conditions can exist simultaneously. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Patrick would get involved, saying that violent crime was a natural consequence of the capitalist system, and then, eventually, the New York skyline would appear on the horizon and we'd all stop talking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I was seriously thinking of placing you in the school system, teaching. But, now, I don’t think that you’ll fit.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the differences between the number systems in the East and the West suggest something very different—that being good at math may also be rooted in a group’s culture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Now I have a better system; I have an alarm clock I set; I keep it right on the calendar, and when it goes off I check the day. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Southeast and the Mississippi River system, their destruction was accomplished largely by germs alone, introduced by early European explorers and advancing ahead of them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There's probably a whole system of pipes down there, something that leads all the way out to the lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I am. All geniuses deal with bugs in the system.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

This was an unparalleled situation in the country’s history: in the South African parliamentary system, the leader of the majority party becomes the head of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chapter 3 turns our attention to the role of race in the U.S. criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I need to get all the blushing out of my system now. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Because ‘duodecimalthon’ sounds a lot like ‘Dewey decimal system’ if you say it real fast with a mouthful of malted milk balls, don’t you agree?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The next day I was in class and my name was called over the PA system. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“A, B, C, vitamin D, vitamin D, vitamin D . . .” The Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana had risen to a sobbing crescendo; and suddenly the verbena gave place, in the scent- circulating system, to an intense patchouli. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, Arm had heard, the system had broken down, and food could not be sent to the top one hundred floors. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, was alarmed at the growing numbers of teenagers who resisted the Hitler Youth system. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s nuts. Imperfect skin is a sign of a poor immune system.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One possible explanation for this may be that the Western branch of Christianity took certain elements of its note-family system from the Eastern Byzantine system of modes, called Oktoechos. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century, the treatment of an intestinal disease focused on purging the system through vomiting and moving the bowels. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had warned me about “the system” that made letters to loved ones disappear mysteriously if a black person who went overseas got “naughty.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Entropy is the degree of randomness or disorder in a system, Doctor.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not to mention the lack of a seatbelt on a horse—no secondary restraint systems of any kind—and yet horses could go nearly as fast as cars but were much bounder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sunshine gave way to darkness, and the Jim Crow system of segregation emerged—a system that put black people nearly back where they began, in a subordinate racial caste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1991, Fuller received national attention when he was named superintendent of the Milwaukee school system, the nation’s seventeenth largest—despite a lack of elementary or secondary teaching experience. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But it wouldn’t necessarily cost that much more money, and it would level the playing field for those who—through no fault of their own—have been dealt a big disadvantage by the educational system. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But there is a weakness to the system. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before my despair could deepen, the OIC started calling the pro-gram runs over the PA system—chapel run, school run, commissary run, State Shop run. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now risked dying from oxygen toxicity, as the excessively high amount of oxygen threatened to burn up my nervous system, lungs, and eyes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't say anything to Sandy, but in my opinion, the star system sounds dreadful. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Joel if he believed the industrial food chain would ever be replaced by a local food system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We have a system here, and you haven’t earned your keep yet.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The old wolf bone seems to be more typical of ancient counting systems. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She tried brewing drinks of roasted grain or roots, but her nervous system was not deceived by a beverage that resembled coffee only in appearance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movement regularly holds protests against police killings of African Americans and against such issues as racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Even so, city life was comfortable and pleasant, thanks to the wide streets, parks, gardens, and extensive system of canals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We need an effective system of crime prevention and control in our communities, but that is not what the current system is. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Germany and Russia were already making use of one-time pad systems, and at one point William and the Army took an interest in them, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of music listeners end up voting on particular songs, and over the years the rating systems have become extraordinarily sophisticated. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He was a big anthro dude, specifically the spiritual systems of different cultures, yeah? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

What is most striking about the design of the current caste system, though, is how closely it resembles its predecessor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The counselor had to add a new group to his system. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“That’s not a challenge. Those old video systems emit faint ion beams. Invisible to the naked eye, of course, but not with your iris-cam...” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse by demanding “law and order” rather than “segregation forever.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They needed the rivers to rise in order to spread the fertile topsoil washed down from the highlands, and to enable their vast irrigation systems to fill with water. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The appeal of the dilemma has nothing to do, of course, with any interest we might have in women drug traffickers or in the criminal justice system. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw my puzzled look, she explained the demons’ postal system. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor and minority victims of crime experienced additional victimization by the system itself. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if Farmer had built himself an alarm system that, with any extended free moment, set off a recording saying, “You’re forgetting Haiti.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I spent the day running full diagnostics on every system in the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aim of this book is not to venture into the long-running, vigorous debate in the scholarly literature regarding what does and does not constitute a caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"I need you to be careful with the flower of immortality when you find it. If you get contaminated by it—if its pollen or sap enters your system—there could be adverse side effects." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His travel involves something called systems checks, which sounds kind of tedious to me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In plebe system, your plebe brothers are all you have to make it through. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The result is a system of stratification based on the “official certification of individual character and competence”—a form of branding by the government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The time-tested strategy of using those who epitomize moral virtue as symbols in racial justice campaigns is far more difficult to employ in efforts to reform the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

While many of his peers owned slaves, Socrates said, “Slavery is a system of outrage and robbery.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“That such small unbalances in the perfection of our system of supply and demand, as I have mentioned, may be the first step towards the final war.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Both major types of insecticides, the chlorinated hydrocarbons and the organic phosphates, directly affect the nervous system, although in somewhat different ways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We can use our voluntary muscular system to try to suppress those involuntary responses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Having the theory, though, did not lead to its immediate adoption as a tuning system in either China or Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So, in keeping with local, state, and federal law, my apartment building’s security system immediately opened both of my security doors to grant them entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And now, in 1990, the system he helped create had self-destructed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, no. There was one family, but they got pregnant right before the adoption went through, and they only wanted one kid, so...yeah. Ended up back in the system for a while.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Thus a system idealized as a great equalizer serves to reinforce the advantages of birth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Before long these Web-delivered services will likely replace some, or all, of the business software programs that you buy, load, update, upgrade, and integrate with other systems. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“What would you do if you could change the educational system?” he asked ambiguously. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The voice rang out over a loudspeaker system, neither male nor female; emotionless, inhuman. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Demand that anyone who wants to challenge racial bias in the system offer, in advance, clear proof that the racial disparities are the product of intentional racial discrimination—i.e., the work of a bigot. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

During this period the whales evolved their extraordinary audio communication system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just pride myself on being someone who can see through things, the faction system included.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Amaka used to write the office of the Head of State, even the Nigerian Ambassador in America, to complain about the poor state of Nigeria’s justice system. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a system in which our brain reaches conclusions without immediately telling us that it’s reaching conclusions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

For example, individual teachers may prefer one gender to another, but the entire educational system in general, favors girls’ learning styles and behaviors over that of boys. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Others use an espresso pot, which uses steam to drive water up through the grounds: the pot is a pressurized steam system, which is why it requires a safety valve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The city’s emergency broadcast system, which was supposed to swing into action during a crisis, did not go on the air because "the Sunday-morning staff did not know how to operate the equipment." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We must face the realities of the new caste system and embrace those who are most oppressed by it if we hope to end the new Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The atom, the byte, and the gene provide fundamentally new scientific and technological understandings of their respective systems. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Those are the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system,” whispered Miguel, sounding awestruck. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Unable to hold anything in their systems, many of them starved to death, even with food right in front of them. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sighed, and muttered to myself something like, “Yeah, the criminal justice system is racist in many ways, but it really doesn’t help to make such an absurd comparison. People will just think you’re crazy.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He told me about Linnaeus and his system for naming all living things in Nature and how we still followed this system whenever we named a new species. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I assume they kept these records before they developed a sophisticated security system on their network,” he says without looking up. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But every few months, Conexco’s code maker would switch to a new system. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just as a hunting-gathering lifestyle can be traded piecemeal for a food-producing lifestyle, one system of food production can also be traded piecemeal for another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The precautions are for those trying to get out, though to make it even as far as the Wall, from the inside, past the electronic alarm system, would be next to impossible. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So he based his home reservations system in Salt Lake City, where the vast majority of the women are Mormons and many are stay-at-home mothers. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

At one point he said the cells “would reach a volume greater than that of the solar system.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Asked to describe and classify mammals, he scribbled down an incomplete and absurd system of taxonomy—omitting categories, inventing others, lumping kangaroos with beavers, and pigs with elephants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The shrouded corpses and the pulley system stretching across the ceiling were my own contributions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The first major thing you need to know is that the Greeks believed music to be both a science and an art, and that they developed theories and systems for music accordingly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The ventilation system was not designed for so many people, and everyone had been working every waking moment without much time for personal hygiene. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you blacks. You leave the country and start telling Americans lies about how bad things are here. Is apartheid a bad system, boy?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up in my room I started my homework on the feudal system for Mrs. Coscombe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But the same social system that exists in the cities also exists in the compound; it’s just a little harder to see.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a system to how things worked. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Mayan system made more sense than the Western system does. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Of those million worlds inhabited by advanced intelligences, consider a rare planet, the only one in its system with a surface ocean of liquid water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we all have it and it just takes longer to kill you depending on your immune system.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Bede didn’t want to abandon the new dating system, so he extended Dionysius’s calendar backward. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I felt relief to get all that out of my system, but I had lied about it bringing me joy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That requires trigonometry; the Indian version was probably derived from the system that the Greeks had developed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But China and Japan never developed that kind of oppressive feudal system, because feudalism simply can’t work in a rice economy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Isolated victories can be won—even a string of victories—but in the absence of a fundamental shift in public consciousness, the system as a whole will remain intact. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The central question, then, is how exactly does a formally colorblind criminal justice system achieve such racially discriminatory results? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Only a sophisticated religious or ideological system could sustain such efforts. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But eventually I accept that the poison must have finally worked its way out of my system, leaving my body wracked and feeble. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They pump that virus into the slum sectors through a system of underground pipes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In prison, my anger toward whites decreased, but my hatred for the system grew. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, the Chicago Public School system obliged. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

From that point on, he had no exposure to the criminal justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After the game John Wilkins, a former Permian coach who was now the athletic director for the county school system, came into the Permian locker room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also ensured that Brahe’s new system was quickly known throughout Europe, so that his arguments could be tested against the nova of 1604 and the comets of 1618. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Other people—unused to telephones all their lives until immediately after World War II when the present system was installed—still, some twenty-odd years later, automatically answered anything that gave off an urgent blast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is attitudes and assumptions, a source of identity, a system of exclusion. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their nonworking lives completely revolved around the Net, trading MP3s, finding software, getting their hands on new games, trying out new operating systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Berlin they toured the canal system and learned the best way to destroy a lock, which was integral to the raising and lowering of the water levels while transporting supplies. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

This number was so large that the Greek system of numeration was unable to handle it; Archimedes had to invent a whole new method of denoting really huge numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if she better understood his systems, she could use them to make the circus more independent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But I’m a simple man, you see,” he said, “and that’s exactly what I do. All systems are evil. All governments are evil. Not just a trifle evil. Monstrously evil.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The real issue at hand was whether—and to what extent—the Supreme Court would tolerate racial bias in the criminal justice system as a whole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Inkatha refused to sign on the grounds that the phrase an “undivided” South Africa implied that a federal system was off-limits. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, this highly productive system of intensive agriculture triggered an immediate population explosion in Kyushu, where archaeologists have identified far more Yayoi sites than Jomon sites, even though the Jomon period lasted 14 times longer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With a shattered body that was still healing and nanites pumping an endless stream of opiates into her system, Citra could barely move, much less walk. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Convenient starting points for our discussion are the limited capabilities, uses, and users of early writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sugar slowly worked its way into his system and made him feel a little stronger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Descartes quickly realized how powerful his coordinate system was. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That means turning to wind, solar, and hydroelectric systems for power instead of coal, oil, and natural gas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn’t merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In one last effort, I hit the shuttle’s system switch, but there is no response. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Divergent?” one of them finally asks as the man behind the desk picks up the receiver of the building’s communication system. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I soon realized that he himself suspected that the system could probably just do away with you if it wanted to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell Dad, because I knew he’d come to school to debate Miss Page about the virtues of various numeric systems. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are not yet certain how many planetary systems there are, but there seem to be a great abundance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re doing fine. See those huts, the irrigation system, fishing lines, the rain-catching tarp, and desalination still? We built all of that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Until I built an antenna system out of wires and foil and metal coat hangers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Garfield was pleased when President Hayes attempted reforms to the spoils system, but Hayes had little success. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

People coughed, getting it out of their systems. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For me, Christianity was not so much a system of beliefs as it was the powerful creed of a single man: Reverend Matyolo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we become serious about dismantling the system of mass incarceration, we must end the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And so did the French legal system back in 1896, when Armand Peugeot, who had inherited from his parents a metalworking shop that produced springs, saws and bicycles, decided to go into the automobile business. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1917 the Russian Revolution had put an end to an empire that was centuries old and, after years of civil war, replaced it with a new system of government called communism. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In later states, including most today, the leadership often became nonhereditary, and many states abandoned the entire system of formal hereditary classes carried over from chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I find an open port in the system after an hour of scanning and then take over admin privileges. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This time the drug war is the system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In various court documents, judges described Cofield as a “con artist,” “no more than a gadfly and an exploiter of the court system,” and “the most litigious inmate in the system.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe something in the system shorted since there was no one maintaining it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband wanted us to move to America but I refused, because the education system is so bad. An international agency rated it the lowest in the developed countries, you know.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Helpers were stirring soups and tossing pizza dough and otherwise attending to a huge array of dishes, all of which smelled heavenly, and the boys’ mouths were watering like sprinkler systems. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath his Old South gentility, however, Keith was as opposed to desegregation as any Klansman and worked the system expertly to frustrate changes in Durham’s social order. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Merit has replaced the old system of inherited privilege, in which parents to the manner born handed down the manor to their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the Council, too, which worked out the system of submitting bids for unusual jobs to be done. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, some provocative theoretical studies have suggested that planetary systems are a galactic commonplace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole system’s gone to pot. Masks everywhere, grown men threatening children—” “I’m only doing my job,” said the conductor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The magic trick also hints at why technology plays so powerfully to our brains, and our attention systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tribes still have an informal, “egalitarian” system of government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Who knows how long it would have taken for a federal judge to conclude that the Odessa school board, by clear design, had maintained a segregated school system for close to sixty years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Interlocking dial systems connected every town on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late 1920s, General Motors secretly began to purchase trolley systems throughout the United States, using a number of front corporations. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, however, the new system gained acceptance, as word spread about the low prices and good hamburgers. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Healing up there is much harder. I don’t know what the justice system will do with you now that you’ve burned your bridges. I’ll stop by the detention center tomorrow and we’ll talk.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As a result, the Chicago Public School system began to fire its cheating teachers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The underlying reason why this transition was piecemeal is that food production systems evolved as a result of the accumulation of many separate decisions about allocating time and effort. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For geeks, both politics and journalism represent—in Jesse’s words—“an insane and useless” system that has little bearing on their lives. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless the upgrades let him respond to voice commands. But if he’s permanently activated, that means the navigation system and the crystal...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Such a system set the stage for explosive increases in specific insect populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My brain runs on a different operating system from other people’s. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ancient handcar allowed Fist and Knife to move quickly through the system. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But for a range of plausible initial conditions, planetary systems—about ten planets, terrestrials close to the star, Jovians on the exterior—recognizably like ours are generated. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is only after 200,000 other worlds have been colonized that, in the usual course of things, our solar system would be accidentally discovered to harbor an indigenous civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how did this flow of biological information achieve the observed complexity of living systems? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He’s working on something else: a growth hormone that will throw their systems out of whack and make them pupate before they’re supposed to. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The answer: a racial caste system in the age of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By their very nature chemical controls are self-defeating, for they have been devised and applied without taking into account the complex biological systems against which they have been blindly hurled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Bush administration says that the tax cuts have actually made the income tax system more progressive, shifting the burden slightly more to those with higher incomes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And, if your whole office was using the same hardware, software, and e-mail system, you could be even more productive, by seamlessly shooting your digitized content around your company, from department to department. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The woman glanced at the communication system on the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He proposed that an object of planetary mass, which he called a comet, was somehow generated in the Jupiter system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Voyager approached this giant moon we found a strange multicolored surface unlike any other in the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you know from previous chapters, Indigenous peoples had highly organized societies and systems of governance. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A “smooth” strain possessed a slippery, sugary coat on the cell surface and could escape the immune system with newtlike deftness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to look at Cassiopeia with me? One of the stars in the system is going supernova. When it explodes it will be twenty times brighter than usual.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The system was too neat to last, and soon geologists were contributing additional divisions while eliminating others. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He waved at peeling greasy tags that were stuck to various components of the system. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The majority observed that significant racial disparities had been found in other criminal settings beyond the death penalty, and that McCleskey’s case implicitly calls into question the integrity of the entire system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Together, the whole system of racial segregation was known as “Jim Crow.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Complicating matters is the fact that there are several competing systems for naming cadences. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The system of mass incarceration is now, for all practical purposes, thoroughly immunized from claims of racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Construction of large-scale irrigation systems did not accompany the emergence of states but came only significantly later in each of those areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said to himself, Jasus, I have all this gas in my system and ’tis a great pity to waste it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The real public school system, the one run by the government, had been an underfunded, overcrowded train wreck for decades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To counter the sordid image created by Burns and the old school of venal detectives, Hoover adopted the approach of Progressive thinkers who advocated for ruthlessly efficient systems of management. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I shoved it into the Atari and turned the system on, then hit the Reset switch to start the game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

How does a picture from the outer solar system get to us? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this, linguists conclude that ten was the basic unit in the Germanic protolanguages that English came from, and thus those people used a base-10 number system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Building his campaign around reforming the city’s political system and better tending to its neglected neighborhoods, Washington won the election by a hair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The French, by contrast, had a Roman law system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She also spoke about education, crime, the environment, war, taxes, insurance, health and medicine, the justice system...and fruit. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

All students were directed instead to participate in the movement by writing big posters, da-zi- bao, criticizing the educational system. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, seven moons in the solar system, including our own, are larger. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But if a democracy could best be expressed by a multiparty system then I would examine that carefully. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Get more rest, work out a system to salvage more rainwater, fight as a team, and share the food from the dead tributes’ packs. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Did Jen teach you how to disable our alarm system?” the man asked. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

In most of physics and chemistry the concepts of “ultimate cause,” “purpose,” and “function” are meaningless, yet they are essential to understanding living systems in general and human activities in particular. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The new law requires the public school system to abandon any programs that involve bilingual students. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

All students were directed instead to participate in the movement by writing big posters, da-zi- bao, criticizing the educational system. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jupiter and Uranus also have ring systems, discovered only recently, and almost invisible from the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs were used for hunting and fighting, and as an alarm system against wild beasts and human intruders. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Left to themselves, they devised systems of cooperation and work sharing; when there was a crisis, they rose to it. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each star is the center of its own solar system, planets encircling it, and moons encircling each planet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are some eighteen thousand photographs taken in the Jupiter system by Voyager 1 that are stored on such magnetic discs, and an equivalent number for Voyager 1. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you would expect, the ash turned day to night and got into everything, clogging motors, generators, and electrical switching equipment, choking pedestrians, blocking filtration systems, and generally bringing things to a halt. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z