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Larissa Theule,
Glass: Looking In, Looking Out

"As clear and colorful as its topic." ---Kirkus Reviews The author of Concrete: From the Ground Up brings her illuminating and often dry-humored approach to reflecting on another marvel of the e…

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Robert Shields Mevissen
The Danube Empire

In the nineteenth century, changes to the environment, driven by ideology, natural forces, and burgeoning fossil fuel power, shifted the course of the Habsburg Empire. Along the Danube--Europe's second lo…

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Rebecca Heisman
Flight Paths

"Illuminating. . . . Flight Paths does what only the best science books do: It adds to our knowledge of the world without diminishing its wonder."---Wall Street JournalThe captivating, little-kn…

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Julia Tischler
Cultivating Race

Cultivating Race explores the rise of scientific knowledge in farming in South Africa and ways in which it informed - or was informed by - questions of race in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Waiwai

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' fut…

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Waiwai

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' fut…

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Joel J Miller
The Idea Machine

Books are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones--- they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine , Joel J. Miller sho…

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Walter Brandmuller
The Case of Galileo and the Church

Throughout the modern era, Galileo Galilei has been presented as a victim of cruel torture of conscience, theological narrow-mindedness, and ecclesiastical harassment typical of a dark, closed-minded Chur…

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Kanani,
How to Be an Astronaut and Other Space Jobs

An engaging and comprehensive guide to many exciting space-related jobs, from astronauts and rocket engineers to space chefs and even extraterrestrial scouts.Do you have what it takes to become an astrona…

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Great American Marine Corps Stories

On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress approved a resolution for the organization of the Corps, creating what would become the Marines, a heroic group of men and women who put their lives on the l…

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The Cambridge History of Strategy 2 Volume Hardback Set

"With an international team of subject experts, Volume I offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, complemented by archaeology, to the late 18th century, th…

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Peter S Goodman
How the World Ran Out of Everything

By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain ---exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that…

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Verity Harding
AI Needs You

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is rea…

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Anto Mohsin
Electrifying Indonesia

Electrifying Indonesia tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia's rapid post--World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indones…

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The Cambridge History of Strategy: Volume 1, from Antiquity to the American War of Independence

"With an international team of subject experts, Volume I offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, complemented by archaeology, to the late 18th century, th…

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Gerald P Cestkowski
American Dynamite

While everyone can mentally visualize a stick or bundle of dynamite, very few have any real understanding of one of mankind's most important industrial implements.This comprehensive treatment of the decei…

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Ian Ona Johnson
Faustian Bargain

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns and cities across the country, and fifty divisions of the W…

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Marco Armiero
Vajont

The sobering political implications of a disaster---the Vajont landslide in Italy in 1963---and how it speaks directly to our present environmental crisis.On October 9, 1963, two thousand people perished …

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A Companion to Greek Warfare

"The first part of the book, a "Historical Survey," focuses on changing issues in strategy and grand strategy-on Greek motives, goals, and responses to military success and failure, the Mac…

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Joyce E Chaplin
The Franklin Stove

A Washington PostNoteworthy Book"[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." -The New Yorker "From Joyce Chaplin's engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh…

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