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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

May 102013

Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

‘Dry Store Room No. 1’ is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination.Behind the public façade of any great museum there lies a secret domain: one of unseen galleries, locked doors, priceless specimens and hidden lives.Through the stories of the numerous eccentric individuals whose long careers have left their mark on the study of evolutiona

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Celebrating the Green: History of St. Patrick’s Day

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Mar 292013

Celebrating the Green: History of St. Patrick’s Day

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The Luckiest St. Patrick’s Day Ever

Share in this leprechaun family’s charming St. Patrick’s Day celebration, complete with a fun parade and an Irish feast!

The St. Patrick’s Day parade is off to a very fine start.
The Leprechaun family is marching with lots of heart!
Share in their dancing, share in their fun.
You’ll have the luck of the Irish when this day is done!

Top o’ the morning! It’s March 17th, and the Leprechauns are gathered for their favorite day of the year. Join them as they celebrate St. Patri

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Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History

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Dec 172012

Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History

This volume presents a history of the ways in which human beings have shaped the landscape at cult sites, in cities and on great private estates, from prehistoric times to the present, throughout the world. The book considers what the evolution of the design of the landscape reveals about the development of society and culture, examining famous cities, palaces and parks, as well as lesser-known designed landscapes, and even sites now vanished from around the world. Illustrated with hundreds of p

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Front Row Seat: A Photographic Portrait of the Presidency of George W. Bush (Focus on American History Series)

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Nov 182011

Front Row Seat: A Photographic Portrait of the Presidency of George W. Bush (Focus on American History Series)

America’s forty-third president, George W. Bush, presided over eight of the most dramatic years in recent history, from the 9/11 attacks early in his administration to the worldwide economic crisis of 2008. By his side, recording every event from the momentous to the intimate, was his personal White House photographer, Eric Draper. From a collection of nearly one million photographs, Draper has selected more than one hundred images of President Bush that portray both the public figure and the

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On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

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Oct 042011

On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

Three decades in the making, one of the most ambitious and comprehensive histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton’s dictum that “absolute power corrupts absolutely” or explicating John Stuart Mi

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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Reviews

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Sep 132011

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

An endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America

According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped o

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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

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Jul 112011

Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Richard Fortey—one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earth—describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a legendary place. Within its pages, London’s Natural History Museum, a home of treasures—plants from the voyage of Captain Cook, barnacles to which Charles Darwin devoted years of study, hidden accursed jewels—pulses with life and miraculous surprises. In a

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Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals

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Jun 252011

Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals

Queers in History is the first comprehensive biographical compendium of important historical and contemporary figures who were/are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. From Egyptian pharaohs, Catholic popes, and Abraham Lincoln to Bishop Gene Robinson, Neil Patrick Harris, and Angelina Jolie, Queers in History brings these figures, from their work to their sexuality, to life.

The hundreds of people whose stories appear in this book are some of the most intriguing personalities of their

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Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

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Jun 092011

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these seismic changes, and became a job-making engine and the Esperanto of youth rebellion. Hip-hop crystallized a multiracial generation’s worldview, and forever transformed politics and culture. But the epic story of how that happened has never be

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