The Olmsted Story: A Brief History of Olmsted Falls & Olmsted Township, Hardcover - Bruce Banks

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Master landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the extent of his accomplishment in mee...

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Local prosecution associations were a method of controlling crime which was devised in the second half of the eighteenth century, fifty years befor...

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100, 000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the ver...

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