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Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-09 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year (Nonfiction) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence (N
Language: en
Pages: 380
Pages: 380
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a
Language: en
Pages: 116
Pages: 116
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03 - Publisher: Whitehead Press
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Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-02 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Ranging from ancient Greek thought to contemporary quantum mechanics, Mastery of Nature investigates to what extent nature can be conquered to further human end