The age of Edison: electric light and the invention of modern America 9781101605479, 1101605472

Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair 9780307425805

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The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, And The Race To Light The World [Original retail ed.] 1250120160, 9781250120168

The spellbinding true account of the scientific competition to light the world with electricity. In the mid-to-late-nine

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The Invention of the Visible: The Image in Light of the Arts 178660051X, 9781786600516

We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics

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The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America 9781501717734, 1501717731

"However urban the nation has become," Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston write, "twenty perc

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The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America 9781501717734

"However urban the nation has become," Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston write, "twenty perc

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G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology 9780300161748

Stephen J. Gould declared G. Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson prono

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Edison's Electric Light 9780813566795

So encrusted with folklore has Edison's invention of the electric light become that we may be hard-pressed to recog

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The Birth of the Modern Mind : Self, Consciousness, and the Invention of the Sonnet 9780195363470, 9780195056921

This revolutionary study presents new facts and an original theory about the origin of the thought and literature that m

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Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping 9780231504447

Asserting that a history of shopping has been, until recently, a history of women, Bowlby trains her eye on the evolutio

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The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the Age of Art 1350091057, 9781350091054

This book is an examination of personal identity, exploring both who we think we are, and how we construct the sense of

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