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Battleships of the World: Struggle for Naval Supremacy 1820 - 1945
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The battleships of the world's navies in the 1820s were descended directly in line from the Revenge...
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Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
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In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it...
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The Lives of Dillon Ripley: Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution
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A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a "courtly, determined, hugely ambitious,...
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
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Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of...
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Life Behind the Mask: Theater Practice as an Instrument of Self-Knowledge
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You had to decide to let yourself be turned upside down, you had to accept to see the idea you had...
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Marshal of Victory: The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov
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Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov remains a national hero in today's Russia...
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Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades
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An in-depth look at Japan's economic malaise and the steps it must take to compete globally In...
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Foundations of Scenario Planning: The Story of Pierre Wack
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Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten...
Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi
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China's currency, the renminbi (RMB), has taken the world by storm. The RMB is well on its way to...
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Robot: Visual Atlas from Ancient Greece to Artificial Intelligence
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From Ancient Greece onwards, humans have been swept up in a race to replicate and rebuild...