“Besides offering a rich source of information, Ancient Rome: Infographicspresents an incredible example of visual intelligence, of how we learn by ‘seeing’ facts
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“a story of the famous Daniel Boone that stands on just its facts, and yet the storytelling has the same quality that has made Pearl’s historical fiction so popular.”
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The co-authors of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, journalist Anderson Cooper and novelist and historian Katherine Howe, posit that the Vanderbilt family suffered from
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