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History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu
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Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
by Richard L. Currier (Goodreads Author)
by Richard L. Currier (Goodreads Author)
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date: Aug 25, 2015
I am giving away 15 signed, personalized copies of the best selling new book on human origins: UNBOUND: HOW EIGHT TECHNOLOGIES MADE US HUMAN, TRANSFOR
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
by Gordon Corera
by Gordon Corera
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date: Jul 05, 2016
Enter for a chance to win an advance copy of CYBERSPIES, the as-yet untold—and previously highly classified—story of the conflux of espionage and tech
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John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life
by Danielle Shapiro (Goodreads Author)
by Danielle Shapiro (Goodreads Author)
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date: Apr 07, 2016
Enter for a chance to win one signed copy of Danielle Shapiro's debut biography, "John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life" (University of Minne
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
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― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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