Word: historyes
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Takaki, author of Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans appeared as the second of three speakers invited this fall by the Harvard Foundation to speak on racial and ethnic relations.
FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM by Umberto Eco (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $22.95). Eco has woven together a novel that is even more intricate and absorbing than his international best seller The Name of the Rose. Beneath its endlessly diverting surface, this book constitutes a litmus test for ways of looking at history...
THE TIMES ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY (Hammond; $85). This classic reference book, in its third edition, chronicles the history of mankind through striking visuals and concise narratives. The new version contains more than 600 handsome maps, as well as updated sections on both antiquity and modern times. A must for...
Yet nothing he has done approaches the commercial potential -- or, for the publishers, the commercial risk -- of his latest book, a collaboration with novelist Mark Helprin on a retelling of the Swan Lake legend (Houghton Mifflin; $19.95). He and Helprin received an unprecedented $801,000 advance, and the first printing...
At the end of that time, 283 of the participants, all of whom were in good health at the start of the study, had died. And after allowing for various other health-affecting factors, including smoking, age, cholesterol levels, weight, blood pressure and family history of heart disease, they found...