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How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster
gend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monstera deformed flying horse with glowing red eyesthat flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods, presaging catastrophe and frightening innocent passersbyor so ......
Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge,Michael McKeon narrates its prehistory along with that of its ......
The Second Seminole War (1835-1842) was the last major conflict fought on American soil before the Civil War. The early battlefield success of the Seminoles unnerved US generals, who worried it would spark a rebellion among Indians newly displaced by President Andrew Jackson's removal policies. The presence of black warriors among the ......
The Second Seminole War (1835GÇô1842) was the last major conflict fought on American soil before the Civil War. The early battlefield success of the Seminoles unnerved US generals, who worried it would spark a rebellion among Indians newly displaced by President Andrew Jackson's removal policies. The presence of black warriors among the ......
Originally published in 1937. Painter's Scourge of the Clergy is a biography of Peter of Dreux, who was the Count of Dreux from 1298 to 1345. This book engages in a conversation with specialists of medieval France and Brittany, given that Peter's career gives historians insight into the quarrels between church and state, the crusades of ......
Recent polls show that a quarter of Americans claim to have no religious affiliation, identifying instead as atheists, agnostics, or ""nothing in particular."" A century ago, a small group of American intellectuals who dubbed themselves humanists tread this same path, turning to science as a major source of spiritual sustenance. In The ......
This fascinating and comprehensive book is the first to explore the complex biological process behind orgasm. Here, sexuality researcher and nurse Beverly Whipple, coauthor of the international best-selling book The G Spot and Other Discoveries about Human Sexuality , joins neuroscientist Barry R. Komisaruk and endocrinologist Carlos Beyer-Flores ......
'Powerful ocean waves fascinate the public, and they have made a lot of news lately.' With that indisputable observation, scientist J. B. Zirker takes off on a whirlwind tour of the world of wavesfrom the 'ordinary' waves that constantly churn the sea to the rogues or freaks that can rise up seemingly from nowhere to heights of 20 meters or more ......
In today's world of online maps and travel directions delivered wirelessly to hand-held devices, getting from place to place requires little thought from most of us and mdash;which is a good thing, since accurate navigation can be tricky. Get your bearings with Mark Denny and mdash;an expert at explaining scientific concepts to the non-technical ......
