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  • The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

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    A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in our bodies.What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical signals constantly traveling through our bodies, driving our thoughts, our movements, and even the ... Leer más

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  • The Network

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  • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

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  • American Republics

    A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

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    **Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young ... Leer más

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  • The Last King of America

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  • Need to Know

    World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

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