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"Hitler is traditionally portrayed as pure evil, a two-dimensional figure set apart from the rest of the human race, but are his beliefs and actions to be dismissed simply as those of someone innately wicked? Or is there more to the story of a man responsible for the deaths of millions? That Hitler suffered from delusions, especially about Bolsheviks and Jews, is evident from Mein Kampf. However, such delusions were probably present from when he began...
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"A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it -- and why were they the ones who succeeded? In truth, the discovery of DNA's structure...
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"When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands explodes their promising life. What...
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