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 B..c B..s (11-2011) | PDF | 448 pages | 0465021441 | 5.1Mb The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe/ by Frank Close. Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there’s more at stake—what we’re really
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 C..ge U..y (8-2011) | PDF | 216 pages | 1107002397 | 5.4Mb The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence /by Larry J. Feinberg. Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the "Transcendent Genius," removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J. F
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 O..d U..y (1-2011) | PDF | 440 pages | 0199600511 | 2.3Mb The Wars of the Romans: A Critical Edition and Translation of De Armis Romanis /by Alberico Gentili, Benedict Kingsbury, Benjamin Straumann and David Lupher. Was the Roman Empire just? Did Rome acquire her territories through just wars, and did Rome's rule exert a civilizing effect, ultimately beneficial for its su
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 M..nd (10-2011) | PDF | 254 pages | 0786464984 | 1.7Mb The Martians Have Landed!: A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes /by Robert E. Bartholomew, Benjamin Radford. History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to the 21st century, including hoaxes perpetrated via newspapers,
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 O..d U..y (10-2011) | PDF | 424 pages | 0199795266 | 2.8Mb The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square /by Steven A. Cook. The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a linchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more a
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 O..d U..y (6-2010) | PDF | 272 pages | 0192823450 | 1.4Mb Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories (Oxford World's Classics)/by Sallust, William W. Batstone. Sallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and political degeneration of the Roman Republic. Sallust's
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