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xi, 562 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"In 1968, Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK's hippest record label, Island. Three years later, however -- having made three well reviewed but low-selling albums -- Nick had been overwhelmed by a mysterious mental illness. He returned to live in his family home in rural Warwickshire...
2) The Times: how the newspaper of record survived scandal, scorn, and the transformation of journalism
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xxiv, 563 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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"A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of "the paper of record," The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internet For over a century, The New York Times has been an iconic institution in American journalism, one whose history is intertwined with the events that it chronicles -- a newspaper read by millions of people every day to stay informed...
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228 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"México ocupa uno de los primeros lugares en el mundo en abuso sexual infantil: ¿cuántas vidas destrozadas más deben ocurrir para confrontar con real justicia esta tragedia? El abuso sexual infantil es una práctica condenable que daña profundamente a los seres más vulnerables de nuestra sociedad. María Antonieta Flores Astorga, experta en la materia por años de investigación, incluso con amenazas severas por su trabajo, ofrece en este libro...
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678 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women"--
"Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever...
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl from Brooklyn and a Duke University scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not exist: Chronic Lyme disease. The Quiet Epidemic follows their search for answers, which lands them in the middle of a vicious medical debate. What begins as a patient story evolves into an investigation into the history of Lyme disease, dating back to its discovery in 1975. A paper trail of suppressed...
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xiii, 350 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
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