China's Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese ECO-Cities
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By 2025, China will have built fifteen new 'supercities' each with 25 million inhabitants. It will...
The Dialogues: Conversations About the Nature of the Universe
Frank Wilczek and Clifford V. Johnson
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Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science...
The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge
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We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Acclaimed author Matt Ridley shows just how wrong...
Dread Nation
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At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning...
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Astrology in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Science of Omens and the Knowledge of the Heavens
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Among the many significant discoveries excavated from Assyrian king Ashurbanipal's royal library in...
Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People
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An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets now in a new revised and updated Third...
Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800 1850
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International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it...
Marc Karlin: Look Again
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This book provides almost the only published material on the work of Marc Karlin. On his death in...
Mohsen Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker
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The name of Mohsen Makhmalbaf is almost synonymous with the dramatic rise of Iranian cinema in the...
Staging the Ottoman Turk: British Drama, 16561792
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In the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople (1453), the English...
