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CAMILLE CLAUDEL: THE GENIUS RODIN CLAIMED AS HIS OWN
The life of the sculptor whose hands may have shaped some of the most celebrated works attributed to her master, and whom her own family confined for thirty years in an asylum, even as doctors certified, time and again, that she was not mad.
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THE SECRET WAR OVER THE SECOND
The thesis: the time that governs your entire life (clocks, GPS, markets, satellites) is not a natural fact but the outcome of an unresolved political dispute between nations that decided, by vote, at a conference almost no one has heard of, to ABOLISH the leap second.
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GENGHIS KHAN: THE BUTCHER WHO BUILT THE FIRST GLOBALIZATIONThe thesis: the man responsible for the greatest proportional massacre of a population in human history is also the unwitting architect of the first network of trade, religious tolerance and secure mail on a continental scale the world had ever known.
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