
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military...

Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television
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The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and...

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
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During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions...

The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas
Charles Coulston Gillispie and Theodore M. Porter
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Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as...

Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
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In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the "natural world" confronts us all and...