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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it's sold on the Internet for 262 ...

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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legacy

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legacy

From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he ...

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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

How did computers take over the world? In late 1945, a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at ...

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Black Vodka

Black Vodka

'Kissing you is like new paint and old pain. It is like coffee and car alarms and a dim stairway ...

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The Cut

The Cut

The first in a stunning action-packed new series from the writer of THE WIRE. Spero Lucas has a new line ...

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San Miguel

San Miguel

The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year's Day, 1888. As the trunks are ...

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