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How the Islamic Golden Age Helped Create Modern Mathematics

How the Islamic Golden Age Helped Create Modern Mathematics

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Beyond <em>Brown</em>: How the Failure of Desegregation in the North Reveals America's Lingering Racial Fault Lines

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Out of Africa: Discovering Our Shared Human Family, From Toumai to Turkana Boy

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My Cherished Friend, My Cursed Rival: On the Perils of Literary Envy

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