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The premier form of Roman money since the time of the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.), coins were vital to the success of Roman state finances, taxation, markets, and commerce beyond the frontiers. Yet until now, the economic and social history of Rome has been written independently of numismatic studies, which detail such technical information as ......
Used today in spheres of life as diverse as business strategy, creative writing, medicine, computer science, and theoretical physics, Venn diagrams possess fascinating properties. The basic Venn diagram is both elegantly simplethree overlapping circles that intersect to create eight distinct areasand conceptually innovative. Devised by English ......
In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in seven hours and fifteen minutes. The New York Times reported that near the end, amid a cheering crowd, the man's ''gulps were labored, but a physician examining him found him in pretty good shape.'' The event was part of a ......
The cockroach is truly an evolutionary wonder. This definitive volume provides a complete overview of suborder Blattaria, highlighting the diversity of these amazing insects in their natural environments. Beginning with a foreword by Edward O. Wilson, the book explores the fascinating natural history and behavior of cockroaches, describing ......
From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920
Challenging ''traditional thinking about both the 'rise' and 'fall' of drug problems'' (which makes legal prohibition the pivotal point in the story), Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920 examines phenomena that have eluded earlier students of drug history. Joseph Spillane explores the role of American ......
From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920
Challenging ''traditional thinking about both the 'rise' and 'fall' of drug problems'' (which makes legal prohibition the pivotal point in the story), Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920 examines phenomena that have eluded earlier students of drug history. Joseph Spillane explores the role of American ......
The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America
Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in terms of security, and they did so beginning in ......
The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America
Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in terms of security, and they did so beginning in the ......
More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freuds wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential centerpiece of the volume ......
