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One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid accoun...

An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landm...

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Wolfgang Friedmann, Burns H. Weston, William T. Burke, and Ivan A. Vlasic explore the new frontie...

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Two thousand years ago, according to the Bible, a star rose low in the east and stopped high abov...

The aim of this work is to provide a proof of the nonlinear gravitational stability of the Minkow...

Scholars have charged population growth with lowering aggregate income per capita, depleting natu...

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The twenty contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the relationship between Blake'...

In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, th...

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