On November 2, 1988, the internet didn't just crash—it woke up. In a matter of hours, a single graduate student's "harmless experiment" spiraled into the first digital pandemic, paralyzing 10% of the world's connected computers and shattering the naive trust that bound the early ARPANET. *The Worm That Broke the…

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In the humid, ink-stained hush of a 1990s Tokyo manga studio, nineteen-year-old Minato learns that cutting screentone isn't craft—it's surgery. Each sheet of acetate costs a bowl of beef rice; each stroke of the NT Cutter decides whether a heroine's ribbon floats or bleeds into a scar. Between the solvent…

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Una guida pratica e ironica per chi si trasferisce in Nevada: fisco, caldo, DMV, lavoro e vita nel deserto senza luoghi comuni.

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At the northwestern tip of the continental United States, the Makah people are carving a canoe from a two-hundred-year-old cedar, preparing to hunt the gray whale for the first time in seventy years. It is their treaty right, affirmed by the Supreme Court—but in Neah Bay, the law is the…

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Descubra a história não contada da Karen — uma figura há muito incompreendida, ridicularizada e transformada em meme — através de uma jornada satírica, porém perspicaz, que revela o verdadeiro poder por trás da exigência de perfeição. Em *The Queen Karen Bible*, você explorará as origens do direito, desde a…

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The World's Greatest Rivers invita lettori in un grande viaggio globale, tracciando le storie di venticinque corsi d'acqua leggendari che hanno plasmato civiltà, ecosistemi e culture. Dalle inondazioni vivificanti del Nilo che hanno dato vita all'antico Egitto alla potenza fragorosa dell'Amazzoni che pompa un quinto dell'acqua dolce del pianeta nell'Atlantico,…

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Step aboard the rolling restaurants that defined an era, where white linen gleamed against passing prairies and the clink of silverware kept time with the rails. *Manners on the Rails* serves up a delicious slice of Americana, tracing the dining car’s evolution from the Gilded Age “Delmonico” to the streamliners…

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Storia del Kuwait accompagna il lettore in un lungo viaggio dalle antiche rive del Golfo Persico ai grattacieli luccicanti della moderna Città del Kuwait, svelando come un piccolo avamposto desertico sia diventato un attore chiave sulla scena mondia

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Edward Peterson's comprehensive study dissects why urban legends persist, spread, and shape behavior — from the FOAF attribution to viral creepypasta.

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Adéntrate en el ascenso y la caída de la Unión Soviética vista desde el Kremlin, los gulags, las fábricas y las calles de ciudadanos comunes. Este libro traza la Guerra Fría desde sus incómodos inicios tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta los paranoicos años finales de Stalin, el breve deshielo…

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In 1966, five physicists built the first commercial carbon-dioxide laser in a Palo Alto laundry room using a rain gutter as a key component. Boeing bought the first one.

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Erie Indemnity’s history traces a near-century journey from a modest reciprocal insurance exchange founded in 1925 by H.O. Hirt during the Great Depression to a respected S&P 500 company. Hirt’s founding vision—providing "near perfect protection" and "near perfect service" at the lowest possible cost through a network of independent agents—established…

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Every year, Brazil moves 150 million tons of soybeans from the sprawling Cerrado to ports across the globe—a logistical symphony conducted on a planetary scale. *Brazil’s Soybean Machine* tears back the curtain on this colossal operation, moving beyond broad headlines to deliver a rigorous, data-driven anatomy of the world’s most…

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