Dante's Invention
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Dante's Inferno is the story of a man who finds himself lost in a dark wood. His only hope of escape...
Flying Man: Hugo Junkers and the Dream of Aviation
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Hugo Junkers (1859-1935) was a German engineer and aircraft designer generally credited as the...
Footballer: My Story
Book
All Kelly Smith ever wanted to be was a footballer. Blessed with brilliant talent which she honed...
Keeping on Keeping on
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'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am...
Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era
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A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era-beliefs began to assume greater responsibility...
Hitler at Home
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A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in...
I Blame Dennis Hopper
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In 1969, Illeana Douglas' parents saw the film Easy Rider. Like many folks of that generation, the...
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic Over Role-Playing Games Says About Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
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The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and...
Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism
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A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present After...
Radium and the Secret of Life
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Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians,...