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This book investigates the economic, strategic, and political importance of forests in early modern and modern Europe and shows how struggles over this vital natural resource both shaped and reflected the ideologies and outcomes of France's long revolutionary period. Until the mid-nineteenth century, wood was the principal fuel for cooking and heating and the primary material for manufacturing worldwide and comprised every imaginable element of industrial, domestic, military, and maritime activity. Forests also provided essential pasturage. These multifaceted values made forests the subject of ongoing battles for control between the crown, landowning elites, and peasantry, for whom liberty meant preserving their rights to woodland commons. Focusing on Franche-Comté, France's easternmost province, the book explores the fiercely contested development of state-centered conservation and management from 1669 to 1848. In emphasizing the environmental underpinnings of France's seismic sociopo

How could a smarter locker make life easier for the kids in your school? Great inventors use a process called design thinking to help them identify problems, big and small, and create solutions for th

Decalogue: A Meditation on the Ten Commandments is true to its title. It is a series of reflections on the ten-pillar Mosaic code. For three millennia, the Ten Commandments have constituted a central

With LittleBits, you can build your own electronic devices using modules that snap together easily with magnets. Through simple text written to foster creativity and problem solving, students will lea

Sphero is a robotic ball that can be controlled using a tablet or smartphone. With this book, students learn the art of innovation through detailed explanations and hands-on activities built to foster

Sphero is a robotic ball that can be controlled using a tablet or smartphone. Through simple text written to foster creativity and problem solving, students will the art of innovation. Large, colorful

From “the most entertaining chronicler of nice guy romance since Nick Hornby” (A.J. Jacobs), a memoir about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a “nice guy” survived

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From a breakout storytelling star at The Moth, a real-life romantic comedy about a guy and a girl—and twenty-nine other girls: a memoir about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being sin