As McGill University economist Reuven Brenner pointed out so brilliantly in his essential book History: The Human Gamble, it is gaps in wealth that drive creativity among the citizenry.
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Marvel made comic book history in 2011 by announcing all titles in the Ultimate Comics line would include codes for free digital copies on the Marvel Comics app, with unrivaled incentives for comic shop retailers.
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Gwen Stacy was the girl Peter loved before any others (despite his dating Betty Brant for a while), and who was eventually at the center of one of the biggest and most famous tragedies in comic book history.
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Mr. Loconte, a professor of history at The Kings College, is writing a book on the history of religious toleration.
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People who made a difference and should be remembered in the history book.
They were given to Swansea University and have been made into a book by Welsh history professor Chris Willliams.
Go ahead and write the history book on this: 2011 is the year TV got institutionalized as a social network engine.
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In his penetrating new book "The History of Future Cities, " author Daniel Brook matter-of-factly declares Dubai as the center of the world.
All it takes is picking up a history book to see the huge difference that vaccination has made in the modern world.
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Brian Domitrovic will be on leave from this column for several months as he works on a book on the history of economic policy.
The Drouhin cellars, located in the very heart of Beaune, read like a history book, with many architectural elements dating back to the 10th century.
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History text book author, Sean Lang, last week called for a modern history curriculum that was not so skewed towards the first half of the 20th century.
The book romps through history at a terrific rate: from ancient Greece through the Islamic empire of the 13th century, 15th-century China and Renaissance Europe to 20th-century America.
In a third lawsuit, brought in 1993, Mr Ienaga argued that the government had ordered that eight sections of a history book he had written be deleted or changed.
The previous book examined the history of the postwar period, examining how mass affluence transformed American culture, making people more introspective and more focused on the achievement of non-material goals.
Mr Snyder's book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe's modern history.
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Well, piece by piece, threaded together by a mysterious book called The History of Love, the story of Leo and Alma, their loves and losses, families and fate, all come together to reveal to us a great story .
Once in, researchers have full administrative access over the phone allowing them to listen in on room audio or snatch the SMS log, address book, call history, email passwords and more -- we're talking full access to your phone.
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With every passing day the 1992 Cable Act becomes more of a rabbit-ear relic of a bygone one-way communication era, something that more appropriately should be part of a museum exhibit or a history book not permanently driving the current and future trajectory of American video competition, technology and innovation.
Very much the same events (no, not Chikatilo, but Stalinism), the time span, are covered in the novel and the history book: but we clearly and obviously hold them to different standards about their allowable moving around of events and invention of characters in order to tell those similar stories (clearly, I regard both of them as being about the horror of living under totalitarianism).
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The burly, mustachioed author, 50, is in his element, proudly awaiting the publication of his latest quirky book, The Basque History of the World.
Those looking for news can safely skip the parts of the book that recount the history of the public relations industry and recap the health reform debate.
Because a new tablet hardwired with 20, 000 instantly streaming shows, on-demand television, music and movies, a massive e-book marketplace and a history of buyer confidence looks like a very formidable machine.
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"While their official role is law enforcer, tax collector and advertiser, license plates moonlight as reporters, artists, sociologists, historians, psychologists and statisticians, " he says in the opening of his book, A Moving History.
The ruling allows police in California to access any data stored on an arrestee's phone: photos, address book, Web browsing history, data stored in apps (including social media apps), voicemail messages, search history, chat logs, and more.
She was General Editor of the five volume collection The History of the Book in the West (Ashgate 2010).
Yet the book is more than a history of a uniquely cruel regime at a receding moment in time.
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Mr. Isacoff's most recent book is "A Natural History of the Piano" (Knopf).
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