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On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601 - John Robert Christianson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=KMuFCHIPBi8C
A Platonic philosopher, Paracelsian chemist, Ovidian poet, and devoted family man, Tycho Brahe was the last Renaissance man and the first great organizer of modern science. This book provides the fullest portrait available of the research and cultural…
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Prisoners Of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence - Aaron T. Beck, M.D. - Google Books
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World-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Aaron T. Beck has always been at the forefront of cognitive therapy research, his approach being the most rapidly growing psychotherapy today. Now, in his most important work to date, the Father of Cognitive Therapy presents…
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Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages - Mark R. Cohen - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=fgbib5exskUC
The exacerbation of Arab-Israeli conflict at the time of the Six-Day War in 1967 gave birth in some quarters to a radical revision of Jewish-Arab history. At stake was the longstanding, originally Jewish, "myth of the interfaith utopia" in which medieval…
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City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem - Meron Benvenisti - Google Books
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Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone. Domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual contest, and its shrines, housing projects, and bulldozers compete in a scramble for possession. Now one of Jerusalem's most respected…
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Roosevelts: An American Saga - Peter Collier, David Horowitz - Google Books
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The story of the Roosevelts is usually seen as a tale of two presidents - Theodore and Franklin - who were distant cousins from distinct worlds, separated by time and politics. And of two families - the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park branches - that had little…
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Growing Up Colt: A Father, a Son, a Life in Football - Colt McCoy, Brad McCoy, Mike Yorkey - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=zmMqVyaAehsC&hl=de
You watched him vie for the Heisman and national championship, and earn a third-round NFL draft spot. Now meet Colt McCoy up-close and personal! Growing Up Colt—A Father, a Son, a Life in Football is a unique biography by both the Cleveland Browns…
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The Most Beautiful Man in the World: Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol - Janis Londraville, Richard Londraville - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=VX1bErPs0v0C
When Andy Warhol cast Paul Swan (1883?1972) in three films in the mid-1960s, he knew that the octogenarian had once been internationally hailed as ?the most beautiful man in the world? and as ?Nijinsky?s successor.? Arthur Hammerstein had advertised Swan…
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The Measure of the Universe - Isaac Asimov - Google Books
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Briefly presents the comparative dimensional scale from atoms to the universe for length, area, volume, mass, density, pressure, time, speed, and temperature.
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Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment - David Von Drehle - Google Books
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Thorough and unbiased, Among the Lowest of the Dead is a gripping narrative that provides an unprecedented journalistic look into the actual workings of the capital punishment system. "Has all the tension of the best true crime stories . . . This is…
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The Creationists - Ronald L. Numbers - Google Books
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Forty-seven percent of the American people, according to a 1991 Gallup Poll, believe that God made man - as man is now - in a single act of creation, and within the last ten thousand years. Ronald L. Numbers chronicles the astonishing resurgence of this…