
The Ottoman Age of Exploration
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In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first...

The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
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The shocking story of how America became one of the world’s safest postwar havens for Nazis ...
Drawing with Great Needles: Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America
Aaron Deter-Wolf and Carol Diaz-Granados
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For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the...

Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface
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"Telepresence" allows us to feel present -- through vision, hearing, and even touch -- at a remote...

A Most Secret War: R.V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45
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The history of scientific intelligence - its birth, its importance during the Second World War and...

The Bangladesh Liberation War, the Sheikh Mujib Regime, and Contemporary Controversies
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The study provides an in-depth, up-to-date, and scholarly analysis of the liberation war and the...

The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s
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In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure...

The Xi Jinping Era: His Comprehensive Strategy Toward the China Dream
Cheng Liu, Xingwang Ying, Xingwang Zhou and Huosheng Tan
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China's development has entered a new phase since the era of Mao and Deng Xiaoping. Its GDP has...

Weekend Pilots: Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America
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In 1960, 97 percent of private pilots were men. More than half a century later, this figure has...

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
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In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions,...