
Herring Tales: How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History
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Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open...

Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance is Tackling the World's Most Urgent Problems
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Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by...

Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture
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A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in...

Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability: International Frameworks, National and Local Governance
William Logan and Sophia Labadi
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More than half of the world's population now live in urban areas, and cities provide the setting for...

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Hysteria as a disease no longer exists, but in the nineteenth century hysteria was thought to affect...
Shanghai Sanctuary: Chinese and Japanese Policy Toward European Jewish Refugees During World War II
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When the world closed its borders to desperate Jews fleeing Europe during World War II, Shanghai...

The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Rights and Responsibilities
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Under the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, States have sovereign rights over the resources...

The Fog of Peace: How to Prevent War
Gabrielle Rifkind and Giandomenico Picco
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Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions...

The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time
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St Ives is unique in the story of modern art in Britain - and perhaps anywhere in the world. No...

A Bucket of Sunshine: Life on a Cold War Canberra Squadron
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"A Bucket of Sunshine" - a term used for the use of a nuclear bomb - is a firsthand insight into...