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A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy to the magical land of Oz, where she befriends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. Together they search for the Wonderful Wizard in his Emerald City to ask him to grant them what they most desire - only to find that they already possess it. Published at the dawn of the twentieth...

On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin. Stunned and surprised, China's leaders launched a campaign of brutal suppression...

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Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of InsightThe prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain. The        Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental        function. Written by two leading brain scientists, it is an important contribution        to our understanding of the evolution and...

Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance DramaLorna Hutson argues that changes in the English justice system in the sixteenth        century towards greater participation (by JPs and jurors) had a decisive impact on        English Renaissance drama. Her nuanced and closely researched book sheds new light        on much of what we take for...

1961 and the Struggle for Racial JusticeHere is the definitive account of a dramatic and indeed pivotal moment in American history, a critical episode that transformed the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.    Raymond Arsenault offers a meticulously researched and grippingly written account of the Freedom Rides, one of the most compelling...