Evolution of a Crazy Artist
This is a unique volume, an artistic autobiography of year-by-year sketchbook drawings, ranging from the scrawls of a two-year-old to a fully developed vision.
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The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
Military historian O'Donnell (
They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany, 2009, etc.) chronicles a Marine company's struggles in the toughest campaign of the Korean War.
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The Epic Story of the Star that Gives Us Life
A remarkably comprehensive and engrossing synthesis of the sun's influence on science, art, religion, literature, mythology and politics.
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The First Ladies of the Roman Empire
A groundbreaking study of some of the most powerful women in early Western civilization.
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The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Powerful forces are afoot to take control of the Internet--for profit, of course. It's happened before, writes
Slate contributor Wu (Copyright and Communications/Columbia Univ.; co-author:
Who Controls the Internet?, 2006), and the corporations have won just about every time.
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The Story of Science and The Royal Society
The Royal Society has been incubating and disseminating scientific illumination for 350 years, as Bryson (
Shakespeare: The World as Stage, 2007, etc.) and his fellow contributors gracefully attest.
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