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Reassessing the original intentions of the ratifiers of the U.S. Constitution, the author examines debates …
Words and phrases looked up while reading Original Meanings:
bastenado: beating bill of attainder: accusation démarche: maneuver palladium: safeguard plenary: authoritative primus inter pares: honored prothonotary: clerk seriatim: sequence
In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, a young housewife, pillar of the Methodist church, disappears and is found murdered, execution …
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The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 …
Una fría mañana de febrero llega un bote salvavidas a la costa sueca arrastrado por la corriente. Dentro encuentran los …
A little bit about carbon, a lot about how non-Indigenous, non-natural humans have screwed up the world, and something about …
"Ellen Wayland-Smith's ambitious and revealing book is in one sense a biography of Jean Wade Rindlaub, a major yet little-known …
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end …
How nervous systems went from stable networks of congealed wires to seething masses of protean fibers reacting to events.
An on-the-spectrum child pursues her history while trying to save her disintegrating family in a tightening-up country.
How U.S. finance, manufacturing and government showed their entire ass while evolving toward the 2008 global economic crisis.
A study of power and change in Washington, D.C. during the middle of the twentieth century.
An introduction to the biological facilities and strategies of plant reproduction using examples drawn from agricultural crops.
A fading historian documents his eclipse in the guise of a remembrance of the Ford …
What I looked up while reading Memories:
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Messrs. Goldwater and Bozell outline an American conservatism for the second half of the twentieth century.
How repealing ten laws and one constitutional amendment would greatly improve the American way of life.
