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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1687 to 1800. Advances in the use of calculus opened up both nature and society to mathematical analysis, while mathemati…

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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Early Modern Age

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Early Modern Age covers the period from 1450 to 1687, a time marked by increasing interplay between science and society. Classical writing on science which had bee…

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Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, Joel Morley
National Service Life Stories

National Service Life Stories studies the impact that compulsory military service had on men, using original, in-depth oral interviews with over one hundred ex-national servicemen to shine new light on ch…

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Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
Fool Proof

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and S…

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Sally Crawford
Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England

Part of the Daily Life Through History Series, Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England covers life in England from the 5th through the 11th centuries.These six centuries saw significant social, cultural, religi…

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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1450, focusing in particular on the innovations in East and South Asia and in Islamicate cultures. With the invention of…

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Chris Filstrup, Jane Merrill
The Turban

A superbly illustrated history of the turban, from Arabian origins to global cultural icon.

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Anthony Bale
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and al…

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Alan Allport
Advance Britannia

The author of Britain at Bay--- which The Wall Street Journal said may be "the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written"-…

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Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition

"The coolest class on campus" -- The New York Times***Revised and updated with a new Afterword from the author.***When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate r…

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Lauren Downing Peters,
Fashion Before Plus-Size

In the first in-depth historical survey of the plus-size fashion industry, Lauren Downing Peters reveals how the fashion industry perpetuates and materializes fat stigma through design discourse.

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Dennis Mcnally
The Last Great Dream

"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a range o…

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Ross Haynes
American Wealth Builders

The American Wealth Builders is a story of a finance, wealth, grit and powerful leadership in American Black History. It's a reminder of what truly makes America great: our potential to live up to our cre…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment

The 18th century saw the height of court culture in Europe as well as the beginnings of its demise with conflicts such as the American and French Revolutions. The Scientific Revolution, which had begun in…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age

Furniture is a unique witness to the transformations of private and public experience amidst the upheavals of the 20th century: how we work, rest, and play are determined by the embodied encounter with fu…

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Regionalists on the Left

"Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism," Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been character…

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Rosemary Cresswell
The History of the British Red Cross, 1870-2020

The British Red Cross (BRC) has played a pivotal role in the history of war, international relations, humanitarianism and health in modern Britain, and interest in the charity has been piqued by the cente…

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Rosemary Cresswell
The History of the British Red Cross, 1870-2020

The British Red Cross (BRC) has played a pivotal role in the history of war, international relations, humanitarianism and health in modern Britain, and interest in the charity has been piqued by the cente…

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Wendy E Chmielewski, Jill Norgren
Her Hat Was in the Ring

Reveals the untold story of over 6,000 women who ran for office between 1850-1920, expanding our understanding of women's fight for full political citizenship beyond suffrageHer Hat Was in the Ring detail…

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