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Fashions of a decade

1990
A pictorial survey chronicling the international clothing fashions of the 1980s.

Fashions of a decade

1992
Explores, through text and illustrations, how fashions and clothes reflect the social, political, and cultural climate of their time.

From punk rock to perestroika

2006
Examines the political, economic, social, and technological developmentsin the world during the mid 1970s to mid 1980s including punk rock and Star Wars, the end of the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan, Iran-Iraq War and the Iran hostage crisis, and the end of the Cold War.

The nineteenth century

1983
Describes the religion, clothing, warfare, food and drink, work, and other aspects of life in nineteenth-century Europe.

The Britannica guide to theories and ideas that changed the modern world

2010
Discusses the people, movements, and events behind the theories and ideas that changed the modern world, covering topics in the biological sciences, mathematics and the physical sciences, the arts, the social sciences, philosophy, religion, and politics and the law.

The birth of the modern

world society, 1815-1830
1991
Chronicles the history of people, politics, and economics from 1815-1830 that laid the foundations of the modern world.

Life sixty years

a 60th anniversary celebration, 1936-1996
1996
Reviews the top stories and photographs from sixty years of "Life" magazine, from 1936 through 1996, grouped by subject including the White House, Hollywood, fashion, disaster, protest, and other topics.

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