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A classic work of military history, follows the enigmatic commander in chief of the Union forces through the last year and a half of the Civil War. It is both a revelatory portrait of Ulysses S. Grant
Details one of the greatest Gothic buildings in the world, the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Chartres, France, exploring its history, its structure, and its glass artistry
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A key figure in the Italian "Autonomia" Movement reads Marx's Gr?ndrisse, developing the critical and controversial theoretical apparatus that informs the "zero-work&quo
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