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The law that constitutes the state: what powers the branches of government have, how they check each other, and which rights they may not touch.
How people actually choose and buy: attention, preference, habit and regret, studied with the methods of psychology rather than the assumptions of price theory.
The recent past, close enough that its participants are still alive and its archives are still opening.
When a promise binds and what happens when it is broken: formation, interpretation, breach and remedies.
Making a system behave: feedback, stability, and controllers that hold a process on target despite disturbance.
Metal centres surrounded by bound ligands: how the complex forms, what geometry it takes, and how its electronic structure follows.
The financing decisions of a firm: capital structure, investment appraisal, payout, and the mergers that are so often paid for above what they return.
Language studied from large annotated bodies of real text and speech, with frequency and distribution taken as the evidence.
The chemical composition of the solar system and how it got that way, read mostly from meteorites, returned samples and interstellar dust.
The origin, evolution and large-scale structure of the universe: the cosmic microwave background, dark matter and dark energy, and the expansion history that ties them together.
The study of counselling and psychotherapy: what happens between therapist and client, and which parts of it carry the effect.
The study of literary craft: how writers work, what a workshop teaches, and the scholarship that has grown up around the making of texts.
What counts as a crime and why: the elements of an offence, the defences against one, and the theories of punishment behind the sentence.
How the state investigates, charges and tries an offence, and the constraints -- search, detention, fair trial -- that it must observe while doing so.
Crime as a social fact: who offends and why, what deterrence and punishment actually do, and how policing and prisons work on the people inside them.
Psychological findings tested across cultures: which of them hold everywhere, which turn out to describe the populations that happened to be studied.
Constructing and breaking schemes that keep data secret or authentic, and proving what an adversary cannot do.
Determining the atomic structure of a crystal from how it diffracts X-rays, neutrons or electrons. The method behind most of what is known about molecular structure.
Human societies studied through their culture: kinship, ritual, exchange, belief and the categories people use to organise their world.
The past read through meaning: ritual, belief, taste, memory and the symbols a society lived by.