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Human Origins 101
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Human Origins 101Human Origins 101 provides a comprehensive look at our understandings of human origins and the evidence we use to support them. It is well researched and comprehensive, filling an important gap in most science programs.
This book represents a compact and complete reference to human paleontology and would be an excellent addition to a library. Many of the books currently available do not do such a thorough job.
 
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Frommer's London from $90 a Day
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Frommer's London from $90 a DayFrommer’s is the name you can trust for great travel bargains. Our acclaimed $-a-Day series is not for backpackers who want to rough it, but for travelers with taste, who’ve outgrown their student lifestyle and demand comfortable accommodations and good, authentic meals at a reasonable price. Each guide is loaded with detailed listings for mom-and-pop motels, B&Bs, comfortable guesthouses, good-value bistros, and ethnic restaurants. You’ll find a bargain-hunter’s shopping guide, affordable fun after dark, and complete sightseeing coverage, including the best things to do for free (or almost).
 
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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to London
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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to LondonLooking for a travel guide that goes where other guides fear to tread? One that rides roughshod over ad-copy puffery to smartly deliver the real scoop on a destination's sites and attractions? One that dares to be honest, hip, and fun? Look no more. Frommer's Irreverent Travel Guides are wickedly irreverent, unabashedly honest, and downright hilarious, and provide an insider's perspective on which attractions are overrated tourist traps and which are the secret gems that locals love. You'll get the lowdown on restaurants, lodging, and shopping, and even find out what the locals think of you.
 
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War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000
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TTC -  War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000
Taught by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
 Course No. 8820
36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture

For much of the past five centuries, the history of the European continent has been a history of chaos, its civilization thrown into turmoil by ferocious wars or bitter religious conflicts—sometimes in combination—that have made and remade borders, created and eliminated entire nations, and left a legacy that is still influencing our world.

 


 
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The Language and Reality of Time
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The Language and Reality of TimeThomas Sattig's book takes the reader on a journey through the labyrinthine intricacies of contemporary analytic philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics, and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.

 
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