Barbara Brett: 4 books

It’s the early 1970s, a time before cell phones, computers, and e-mail—a time when tenderness trumps technology. Robert and Marcie Silver are young and even more in love than they were when they married nine years ago. He’s caught up in the intrigue of academic politics at New York City’s...

“[A] battle fraught with...the dirtiest of tricks...the stuff that destroys marriages, people, lives.... Sizzle through the summer with SIZZLE.”—The Salem NewsIt’s the glitzy 1980s. Fortunes are being made and lost—and made again. Wall Street is on a roll. One after another, corporations...

They are the most powerful men in America: billionaires born to privilege and linked by their membership in the nation's most elite fraternity. They have always snatched what they want. From the halls of their ivy-league college to the counting houses of Wall Street, nothing has ever stopped them...

Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects. The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...