Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
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"There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil." -- Bill Gates In Made in...
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
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By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories"...
The Star Gate Archives: Reports of the United States Government Sponsored PSI Program, 1972-1995: Volume 3: Psychokinesis
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In response to the threats during the Cold War, the CIA took cautious first steps to determine...
Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
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Among many art, music and literature lovers, particularly devotees of modernism, the expatriate...
The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority
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Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those...
The Island That Disappeared: Old Providence and the Making of the Western World
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The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans who landed on the...
The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti
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Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti's problems, from political upheavals to natural...
When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World
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China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become...
Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
Peter Zegers, Peter Kort Zegers, Douglas W. Druick and Konstantin Akinsha
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Windows on the War is a groundbreaking publication-the first in English to focus on posters designed...
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
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The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this...