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The Pirate queen

Queen Elizabeth I, her pirate adventurers, and the dawn of empire
2007
Draws from historical records and numerous personal letters between Queen Elizabeth I and others to tell the story of the "Pirate Queen" and her merchant adventurers who terrorized the seas and helped build an empire.

Population

2005
Contains a collection of essays that examine the global consequences of continued population growth and considers the various options for dealing with its impact on the environment and natural resources.

In our hands

a plan to replace the welfare state
2006
Charles Murray proposes a radical new plan that ends Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of welfare, and instead gives every American age twenty-one and older $10,000 a year for life, and argues that this program could achieve the same goals of the welfare state with less financial impact and greater success.

1493

uncovering the new world Columbus created
2011
Presents research by ecologist, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians to show how the formation of a global network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise in Europe, devastated imperial China, disrupted Africa, and made Mexico City the center of the world.

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