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Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about th...

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1968: The Year That Rocked the World

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music....

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1968: The Year That Rocked the World

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going...

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1968: The Year That Rocked the World

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the fa...

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1968: The Year That Rocked the World

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing origin...

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Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Ge...

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1968: The Year That Rocked the World

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing th...

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The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation

In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors ...

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Salt: A World History

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because pea...

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Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature...

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Mark Kurlansky

Journalist

Born: 1948-12-07

Died: N/A

Mark Kurlansky (born December 7, 1948 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. He is especially known for titles on eclectic topics, such as cod or salt.More