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The Path of the Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in orde......more
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The Populists of the 1890s transformed the nation’s political terrain, and this book tells the story of the hard-pressed......more
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Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and a......more
On a summer night in 2013, a runaway train loaded with explosive oil derailed in the small town of Lac-MÃ(c)gantic, Queb......more
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In the early twentieth century so many dead bodies surfaced in the rivers around Aberdeen, Washington, that they were ni......more
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A key text by a leading figure in Italian socialist feminism that remains relevant today, addressing the exploitation of......more
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