Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World
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Ask anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind....
The Wild Cat Book: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cats
Fiona Sunquist, Mel Sunquist and Terry Whittaker
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From the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, to the prophet Muhammad's favorite cat, Muezza, and...
Who Cleans the Park?: Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City
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America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars both public and private...
Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom
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Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives - a photojournalistic investigation...
Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media
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What is the place of materiality the expression or condition of physical substance in our visual age...
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
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"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love...
The Aerial Crossroads of America: St. Louis's Lambert Airport
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The history of Lambert St. Louis International Airport is the story of American aviation. Everything...
The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending
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How is it that the United States-a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong...
The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law
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Why should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal...
The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
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One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed...