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Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
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Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism
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Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States
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Dying: A Transition
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This book introduces a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that...
Genes, Brains, and Human Potential: The Science and Ideology of Intelligence
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For countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and...
Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why it Matters
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In his new book, Gordon M. Shepherd expands on the startling discovery that the brain creates the...
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
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By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories"...