The History of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context
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The increased circulation of people and ideas within Europe is not matched by an awareness of a...

The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power
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Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power is a fascinating exploration of the...
The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History
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Long before science as we know it today existed, sophisticated studies of the external world were...
The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa
Guillaume Lachenal and Noemi R. Tousignant
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After the Second World War, French colonial health services, armed with a newly discovered drug,...

The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the Diplomatic Bag
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The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew...
Who Owns America's Past?: The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
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In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29...

Burntown
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Eva grew up watching her father, Miles, invent strange and wonderful things in the small workshop...
Inconsistencies
Marcus Steinweg and Amanda DeMarco
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Those who continue to think never return to their point of departure. -- Inconsistencies These 130...

Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS
Mary Guinan and Anne D. Mather
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In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in...

Ain't Nothin' but a Winner: Bear Bryant, the Goal Line Stand, and a Chance of a Lifetime
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No university has won more football championships than Alabama, and Barry Krauss played a key role...