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Capri and No Longer Capri

By Raffaele La Capria, Elizabeth A. Petroff

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New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaran?, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy

By Brian P. Owensby

In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaran. people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving.

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Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5g and How We're Fighting Back

By Jonathan Pelson

NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS WINNER -- TECHNOLOGY As the world rolls out transformational 5G services, it has become increasingly clear that China may be able to disrupt--or even access --the wireless networks that carry our medical, financial, and even military communications.

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Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire

By Tara Nummedal

What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud. This question animated the lives and labors of the common men-and occasionally women-who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire.

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The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God

By Jonathan Kirsch

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The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700

By Jennifer M. Rampling

A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations.