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    Who’s Black and Why?

    In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black skin? Published here for the first…

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    Get Off the Sofa: A Prescription For a Healthier Life

    Andrew Curran

    For years I have watched people in their millions inflict more illness and suffering on themselves than any war has ever done. What is this biblical plague, this monstrosity of…

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    The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain: The True Story of Your Amazing Brain

    Andrew Curran

    Focuses on the neurobiology of emotional intelligence and why it is so important to health, wealth and happiness. This title explains the actual events that occur in the learning brain…

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    Diderot And The Art Of Thinking Freely

    Andrew S. Curran

    A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who, along with Voltaire and Rousseau, helped build the foundations of the modern world.

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    Diderot And The Art Of Thinking Freely

    Andrew S. Curran

    A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who, along with Voltaire and Rousseau, helped build the foundations of the modern world.

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    Race and Gender at War

    Kevin Adams, Amanda Bellows, Kari L. Boyd-Weisenberger, Michele Curran Cornell, Lesley J. Gordon, Andrew Huebner, Gregory Mixon, Caroline Wood Newhall

    Fresh perspectives on the implications of gender and race in US military history from a diverse group of scholars in the field of war and society.

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    Race and Gender at War

    Kevin Adams, Amanda Bellows, Kari L. Boyd-Weisenberger, Michele Curran Cornell, Lesley J. Gordon, Andrew Huebner, Gregory Mixon, Caroline Wood Newhall

    Fresh perspectives on the implications of gender and race in US military history from a diverse group of scholars in the field of war and society.

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    The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment

    Andrew S. Curran (Wesleyan University)

    Penetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists…

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    L'Anatomie de la Noirceur: Science Et Esclavage a l'Age Des Lumieres

    Andrew S Curran

    Exploring eighteenth-century travel narratives, natural history, works on anatomy, philosophical texts, and pro- and anti-slavery texts, this book reveals the relationship between scholarly ideas, commercial profit, and the violence inflicted…

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    The Verse-ever Trip Around the UK

    Myers Richard

    A wonderful little book of nonsense - light-hearted with a real feel-good factor! In these somewhat troubled times Make time to relax, enjoy some rhymes We"ll take you on a…

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    Journey without End: Migration from the Global South through the Americas

    Andrew Nelson,Rob Curran

    Chronicles the years-long journey of extracontinentales - African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research, this book makes…

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    Journey without End: Migration from the Global South through the Americas

    Andrew Nelson,Rob Curran

    Chronicles the years-long journey of extracontinentales - African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research, this book makes…

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    Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

    In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans’ black skin? Published here for the first…

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    Famines in European Economic History: The Last Great European Famines Reconsidered

    This volume explores economic, social, and political dimensions of three catastrophic famines which struck mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe; the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mor) of 1845-1850, the Finnish Famine…

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    Famines in European Economic History: The Last Great European Famines Reconsidered

    This volume explores economic, social, and political dimensions of three catastrophic famines which struck mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe; the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mor) of 1845-1850, the Finnish Famine…

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    The Global Governance of Food

    This book presents recent, well-developed and interdisciplinary scholarship about the variety of mechanisms governing global food systems and their impacts on human and environmental well-being

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    The Global Governance of Food

    This book presents recent, well-developed and interdisciplinary scholarship about the variety of mechanisms governing global food systems and their impacts on human and environmental well-being

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    Toward a Political Economy of Culture: Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century

    This work explores a mix of topics and issues that link to the heritage of political economy work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere. The topics…

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