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Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a        long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative        was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an        age of fierce controversy, in which the government was fearful of beggars and...

An interdisciplinary collection of essays from leading academics and experts addressing how the IMF can support economic growth, poverty reduction, and macroeconomic stability in the world's poorest regions....

The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties AmericaDrawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins argues that a remarkable confluence of panics, scares, and a few genuine threats created a climate of fear that led to the conservative reaction. He identifies 1975...

This is the first comprehensive biography of one of the greatest and most careful observational astronomers of all time. He mapped the southern sky and named many of the constellations. In addition, he contributed to geodesy, navigation, and celestial mechanics....

Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death (NDE) experiences are        frequently interpreted as offering evidence for immortality and an afterlife. Since        most OBE/NDE follow severe curtailments of cerebral circulation with loss of        consciousness, the agonal brain supposedly permits 'mind', 'soul' or...

A Guide to Observing the Great OutdoorsNo mere field guide, The Nature Handbook invites readers to see the natural world        in a new way, with an emphasis on patterns rather than on species. Approximately 500        color photographs help make the more than 200 patterns apparent and recognizable for        readers, and each pattern is...