Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story - How a Single Man Saved the World's Largest Satellite Constellation from Fiery Destruction
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American company, made a huge gamble on a revolutionary...
Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing
Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid
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This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from...
Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe
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This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern...
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
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Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine...
Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age
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Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France's most remarkable kings in the first...
Isaac Newton: Pocket Giants
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Isaac Newton had an extraordinary idea. He believed the physical universe and everything in it could...
Beyond Blaxploitation
Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters
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Beyond Blaxploitation, the first book-length anthology of scholarly work on blaxploitation films,...
Hokusai X Manga: Japanese Pop Culture Since 1680
Sabine Schulze and Nora von Achenbach
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Anime and manga are powerful pop-culture phenomena, capturing people's imaginations in the pages of...
Homo Prospectus
Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister and Chandra Sripada
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Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially...
Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
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Matthew Weiner's Emmy-winning series Mad Men has earned wide critical acclaim in its seven seasons....