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    Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors: an Adventurous History of Botany

    Jordan Goodman

    ‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’ Jenny Uglow, New York…

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    The Devil and Mr Casement: One Man’s Struggle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness

    Jordan Goodman

    In September 1910, the human rights activist and anti-imperialist Roger Casement uncovered an appalling catalogue of abuse: nearly 30,000 Indians had died to produce 4,000 tonnes of rubber. This title…

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    Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence

    Jordan Goodman

    Explores the historical transformation of tobacco from Amerindian shamanism to global capitalism, from the food of the spirits to the fatal epidemic, from the rough pipe and cigar to the…

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    The Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea

    Jordan Goodman

    The epic, beautifully-told story of a great voyage of exploration

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    The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug

    Jordan Goodman (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology),Vivien Walsh (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology)

    During the late 1980s and early 1990s, taxol was hailed for its efficacy as an anticancer drug while becoming embroiled in a number of political issues with wide policy implications…

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    Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors: an Adventurous History of Botany

    Jordan Goodman

    A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting - centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks - transformed the earth.

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    Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence

    Jordan Goodman

    Explores the historical transformation of tobacco from Amerindian shamanism to global capitalism, from the food of the spirits to the fatal epidemic, from the rough pipe and cigar to the…

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    Paul Robeson: A Watched Man

    Jordan Goodman

    Timely and brilliant new portrait of the singer, campaigner and leading radical.

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    Master Your Money Type: Using Your Financial Personality to Create a Life of Wealth

    Jordan E. Goodman

    In this extraordinary groundbreaking book, personal finance guru Jordan Goodman helps readers classify each individual investor into a ‘Money Type’ and describes how that profile can help anyone attain the…

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    Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free

    Jordan Elliot Goodman,Bill Westrom

    This book is the only guide with detailed advice to help you become debt free or master the debt you have, based on the latest laws and new government programs…

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    Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century

    Though notoriously associated with Germany, human experimentation in the name of science has been practiced in other countries as well, both before and since the Nazi era. This title explores…

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    Consuming Habits: Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs: Drugs in History and Anthropology

    Covering a wide range of substances, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect…

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    Consuming Habits: Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs: Drugs in History and Anthropology

    Covering a wide range of substances, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect…

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    The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug

    Jordan Goodman (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology),Vivien Walsh (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology)

    During the late 1980s and early 1990s, taxol was hailed for its efficacy as an anti-cancer drug while becoming embroiled in a number of political issues with wide policy implications…

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    The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man’s Battle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness

    Jordan Goodman (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine University College London UK)

    From the Amazonian rain forests to the streets of London and Washington, D.C., Goodman recounts a tragedy whose exposure in 1912 drew back the curtain on exploitation and the wholesale…

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    Inexorable Modernity: Japan’s Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

    Presents case studies about Japanese intellectuals’ relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. This work…

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    Inexorable Modernity: Japan’s Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

    A compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals’ relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s…

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