In tracing developments from 1500 to 2000, it equated a nation's gross national product with its military, political and economic prowess.
Mr Quammen is a lively writer and a good detective, tracing diseases from their first appearance back to their origins in some cases, still unsettled.
The series also covers the evolutionary changes in human life, tracing our development from single cells to highly complex beings.
Police have appealed for help in tracing a man banned from keeping horses for five years who has gone missing.
There he opened it out on the table (reserved for entertaining the Boss and celebrating special family occasions) and carefully lifted the Lindbergh portraits from the tracing paper protecting each drawing and lined them up on the tabletop.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has been following up a "number of possible leads" in tracing the ship it came from.
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"So we thought we just about got the right time to start tracing the fall-out from that, " he told BBC News Online.
Tracing the green movement in America, from the first wave, led by John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, through the second wave in the 1960s and 1970s, he says the time is right for a third wave.
The Gallery of Lost Art from Tate is an interactive online exhibit tracing the stories of missing art.
If you've lost track of any pensions from a previous job, the Pension Tracing Service may be able to help you.
Greece, understandably, plumbed the depths, tracing a gigantic necklace formation, down some 85 percent from its 2007 high.
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Tracing the physical location of phishing sites that impersonated pages from U.K.-based Barclay and Halifax banks, F-secure's researchers found that they were hosted on the same Russian server used for distributing Storm in recent weeks.
It is the architect as artist that dominates these shows, from the bold strokes of black crayon on yellowing tracing paper that still carry the fresh images of those prismatic glass skyscrapers, transporting us back to the utopian visions of the 1920s, to the existential serenity of the delicate pencil sketches for the Illinois Institute of Technology campus.
One clue comes from ATF agent Charles Houser, head of their National Tracing Center Division.
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Although both believe that the Bible contains the core of all Christian faith and thought, traditionalists tend to talk about the tradition of the Church of England, tracing its routes back to the early church, while evangelicals support their view with specific passages from the Bible.
He brings an insider's wit to tracing the fate of official Christianity in an age of doubt, and to addressing modern surges of zeal, from Mormons to Pentecostals.
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