Jim (Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City) Cullen

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How do perceptions of the past--not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole--shape our experience of the world? To answ

How do perceptions of the past--not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole--shape our experience of the world? To answ

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Introducing almost half a century of the best scholarship on popular culture in the USA, this fully revised second edition has a more focused historic

Wie heeft de beelden op Paaseiland gemaakt? Waar vind je reuzenschildpadden en dwergolifanten? Wie lagen er voor Pampus? En welke eilanden dreigen kop

The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that the American story is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619,

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The first edition of this highly readable narrative of modern Iran was named the Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2009. This second edition brings

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