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"A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil...
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A meticulously researched history that unfolds like a thriller. A complex tale of medicine, politics, race, and public health. Randall does good work in revealing the clamorous clash of public and private interests surrounding the outbreak. A tale that resonates with the outbreak of measles, mumps, and other supposedly contained epidemics today. The unlikely heroes-bacteriologists and public health officers with long, flowing beards-battle villains...
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Journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought - until he began sleepwalking. Now Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives. This book is a tour of the often odd, sometimes disturbing, and always fascinating things that go on in the peculiar world of sleep. Taking readers from military battlefields to children's bedrooms, Dreamland shows that sleep isn't as simple as it...
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"A page-turning narrative history of how one family transformed Malibu into a global symbol of fame and fortune. Over a half-century, Malibu went from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars. Behind its transformation is the love story of Frederick and May Rindge. He was a Harvard-trained confidant of presidents; she grew up on a hardscrabble Midwestern farm; and yet their unlikely bond would shape history....
