She has written about British book publishing in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and is a specialist in the use of quantitative methods in the study of the industry.
As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.
For industrializing nations in the first half of the twentieth century, food was the fundamental problem.
But compared to the first half of the twentieth century we are spending staggering sums to eke out smaller and smaller gains.
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In Paris in the Twentieth Century, published for the first time in 1994, Verne described fax machines, gas-powered cars and an elevated mass transit system.
During the first half of the twentieth century, as global temperatures rose in the aftermath of the Little Ice Age, rainfall in the Sahel increased dramatically.
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The frequency of major hurricane strikes during the past several decades is only two-thirds the frequency of major hurricane strikes during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Still, the curators confirmed that the package contents were indeed from the first two decades of the twentieth century.
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Add to that an average period of unemployment for boomers of nearly one-full year and you have a large and increasingly desperate group of people competing for twenty-first century work, often equipped with only twentieth century skills.
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Americans were generally absent from the race until well into the twentieth century, and it was not until 1940 that the first American-discovered element, astatine, was announced by a team at Berkeley.
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If education and human capital were the keys to economic prosperity in the twentieth century, they are even more important in the twenty-first.
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What might seem beautiful in its tradition and ritual during the first ballot could easily become cumbersome and annoying after the twentieth ballot, and there will be a temptation to cut corners to save time.
The aggressive aliens that skittered, slithered, and oozed through the twentieth century were, to a remarkable degree, prefigured in the very first ones imagined in print.
What was unconscionable to us in South Africa in the twentieth century is just as unconscionable in the United States in the twenty-first.
Both sports were part of the Games programme in the early part of the twentieth century before being dropped, and golf returns to the Games for the first time since the St Louis Olympics of 1904.
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