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Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern PhysiqueAmericans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely the...
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Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the LibraryIn most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital...
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A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state, and monarchy Weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and...
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The Voyage of the Beagle, with eBook Lib/EAuthor: Charles DarwinPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 11/17/2008Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200130269About the AuthorDarwin, Charles: - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, geologist, biologist, and author, revolutionized the science of biology by developing the theory of evolution by natural selection. Among his important works are On the Origin...
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The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination Lib/E: The Definitive Account of the Most Controversial Crime of the Twentieth CenturyNovember 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the tragedy that has haunted America ever since. For the first time, this concise and compelling book pierces the veil of secrecy to fully document the small, tightly-held conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. It...
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Condom Nation: The U.S. Government's Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the InternetAward for the Public Understanding of Science, 2010, British Medical Association's Board of ScienceFirst Prize, Popular Medicine, British Medical Association 2010 Book AwardsThis history of the U.S. Public Health Service's efforts to educate Americans about sex makes clear why federally funded sex education has...
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John Bachman: Selected Writings on Science, Race, and ReligionJohn Bachman (1790-1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a prominent Lutheran minister. This is the first collection of his writings, containing selections from his three major books, his letters, and his articles on plants and animals, education, religion, agriculture, and the human species....
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Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979Renewing Birmingham is the first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Christopher MacGregor Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birmingham's transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of power,...
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The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth CenturyThis collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald's biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918-2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural...
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The Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966-1990: Retreat and RevivalThe Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966-1990: Retreat and Revival is the first book to cover this subject in depth for more than thirty years. With unique access to primary, archival sources, Edward Hampshire offers important and fascinating insights into the naval...
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The Selected Writings of Eqbal AhmadActivist, journalist, and theorist, Eqbal Ahmad (1934-1999) was admired and consulted by revolutionaries and activists as well as policymakers and academics. In articles and columns published in such journals as the Nation, New York Review of Books, Monthly Review, and newspapers in Pakistan and...
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Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in WyomingWritten by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a...
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Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American HeartlandBetween 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried 1,000 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door tells the story of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by...
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Railroaders: Jack Delano's Homefront PhotographyIn the winter of 1942-3, photographer Jack Delano was assigned by the Office of War Information (successor of the Farm Security Administration) to tell the story of the American railroad system and its essential role in keeping the nation's troops armed, fed, and housed,...
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Animal City: The Domestication of AmericaWhy do America's cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by looking at our relationship with animals. Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This...
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Sexual Science: The Victorian Constuction of WomanhoodOne scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented, in Cynthia Russett's splendid book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men--thereby providing, along with savages and idiots, an evolutionary buffer between men and animals--is...
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To Serve the LivingFrom antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or "homegoing" ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few black individuals in any community who were economically independent and not...
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Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms RaceAmerica fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets--and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to...
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Chicago's Historic Hyde ParkStretching south from 47th Street to the Midway Plaisance and east from Washington Park to the lake's shore, the historic neighborhood of Hyde Park--Kenwood covers nearly two square miles of Chicago's south side. At one time a wealthy township outside of the city, this...
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75 Years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk WorksThis pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service. This pictorial journey will take the...
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