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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. The authors illumin…
The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virgi…
History of programming languages: proceedings of the History of Programming Languag…
by Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, History of Programming Languages Conference, Los Angeles, Calif.), Wexelblat, Richard L., Lee, John A.N, Sammet, Jean E., ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, History of Programming Languages Conference
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"This compelling new account traces the origins and development of the most dramatic and destructive disease epidemic of modern times. Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent evolution a…
The making of British bioethics provides the first in-depth study of how philosophers, lawyers and other "outsiders" came to play a major role in discussing and helping to regulate issues that used to be left to doctors and scientists. It details how British bioethics emerged th…
"Abortion Under Apartheid examines the politics of abortion in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1990), when termination of pregnancy was criminalized. It analyzes the flourishing clandestine abortion industry, the prosecution of medical and 'backstreet' abortionists, …
Leur couple est une légende, leur biographie une épopée. Pourtant, rien ne prédestinait cette fille d'un soldat de la Wehrmacht et ce fils d'un Juif roumain mort à Auschwitz à devenir le couple mythique de «chasseurs de nazis» que l'on connaît. Leur histoire commence par un coup…
Leur couple est une légende, leur biographie une épopée. Pourtant, rien ne prédestinait cette fille d'un soldat de la Wehrmacht et ce fils d'un Juif roumain mort à Auschwitz à devenir le couple mythique de "chasseurs de nazis" que l'on connaît. Leur histoire commence par un coup…
Making sense of American liberalism
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"This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs, he situates apartheid i…
"Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in…