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  • Of Time and Turtles

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  • Peterson Reference Guide To Bird Behavior

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  • From Darwin to Derrida

    Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life

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  • Hands of Time

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  • The Fall of Roman Britain

    and Why We Speak English

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  • London, A Fourteenth-Century City and its People

    A resource of information about the cultural, political and social conditions of urban life in the capital of medieval England during the 1300s.For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was ... Leer más

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