Mr. Loconte, a professor of history at The Kings College, is writing a book on the history of religious toleration.
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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.
The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.
The burly, mustachioed author, 50, is in his element, proudly awaiting the publication of his latest quirky book, The Basque History of the World.
She was General Editor of the five volume collection The History of the Book in the West (Ashgate 2010).
One critic has been US Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, Denise Spellberg, who said the book was a disrespectful mis-representation of history.
In his penetrating new book "The History of Future Cities, " author Daniel Brook matter-of-factly declares Dubai as the center of the world.
Their far-flungedness title surfaced in "Flip Flop Fly Ball, " a book of baseball trivia and history by Craig Robinson published last year.
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 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 .
Asma is the author of a book about the culture and evolution of natural history museums, called Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads.
If only briefly, we were part of the history of this extremely rare book very early in our careers.
Mr. Rybczynski and Mr. Olin do an admirable job of conveying the history of Vizcaya, but their book is not one of those lavishly photographed, coffee-table architecture books that have become so common in recent years.
Julia Lovell's excellent new book explores why this period of history is so emotionally important for the Chinese.
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The plates contained the Book of Mormon, the secret history of a native people of America, who turned out to be lost tribes of Israel.
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.
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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So the final chapter of that book charting Australia's boozy history might end with a chapter on the globalisation of the economy, and a row of schooners producing profits that would flow offshore.
The second half of his book, which deals with everything from political history to the decline of trades unions and the impact of a housing shortage, feels overly compressed, with too many ideas chasing too few pages.
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.
Most of the book is a meditation about the problem of evil in European history.
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She spends the first part of her book trying to set up her argument with an exhaustive history of evolutionary thought, both pre- and post-Darwin.
Fast paced and focusing on the major details surrounding the creation of Batman and subsequent publication history, the book is a fun read and packs a lot of information into very succinct storytelling, while also leaving you with a bittersweet feeling over the full recognition Finger attained only after his passing in 1974.
Yet the book is more than a history of a uniquely cruel regime at a receding moment in time.
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