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Soldiers and Sled Dogs: A History of Military Dog Mushing
Charles L. Dean · Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Format: Book
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Sled dogs have been serving humans since they were first tamed and broken to the trace thousands of years ago. Their history of supporting soldiers is much more recent and, for all its drama and heroism, remains little known. This hundred-year history of canine military service from the frozen... |
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Paper Promises: Early American Photography
Mazie M Harris · J. Paul Getty Museum
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover
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Scholarship on photography's earliest years has tended to focus on daguerreotypes on metal or on the European development of paper photographs made from glass or paper negatives. But Americans also experimented with negative-positive processes to produce photographic images on a variety... |
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Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace
Michael A. Messner · Rutgers University Press
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
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Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace have been veterans. These veterans for peace come from all different races, classes, regions, and generations. What common motivations unite... |
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The disappearing spoon : and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements
Sam Kean · Little, Brown and Co.
Pages: 391
Format: Paperback
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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53) ? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium... |
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