How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization. The Time and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Modern World, Paperback - Cathy (Cathy Crimmins) Crimmins

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Cathy (Cathy Crimmins) CrimminsNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 141 x 208 x 19Cover ty...

Humorist Cathy Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of the effects of traumatic brain injury, not only on...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Simon WinchesterNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 202 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

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The epic story of the origin of calculus

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A landmark account of gay and lesbian creative networks and the seismic changes they brought to twentieth-century culture In a hugely ambitious stu...

Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser have joined together to tell the remarkable story of the noble cow in Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, a...

Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political, social theorists and spiritual leaders whos...

"One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia" (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past-and shows how we can...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

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This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

A dazzling new history of the modern world, as told through the remarkable story of population change.

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At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future....

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From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author comes the poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo, a youn...

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Interest in the use of digital technology in art therapy has grown significantly in recent years. This book provides an authoritative overview of t...