Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream
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A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis...
Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal
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There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Throughout...
Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor and Philosophical Practice
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Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of...
Quantifying Life: A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology
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Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter...
Foundations of Macroecology
Felisa A. Smith, John L. Gittleman, James H. Brown and Ford Ballantyne
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Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns...
History Within: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules
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Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com now offer what once was science fiction:...
Radium and the Secret of Life
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Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians,...
Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life
Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark
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Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple...
The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris
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The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris - and the...
The New York Times 36 Hours: USA & Canada. Midwest & Great Lakes
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Weekends on the road. This is the best of the American Midwest & Great Lakes. The "New York Times"...