LIBROS DEL AUTOR: matt kuhns

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  • Hancher vs. Hilton
    Matt Kuhns
    In the late 1950s presidents of rival schools the University of Iowa, and Iowa State, began a several-year feud which redefined both institutions. While President of Iowa State, James Hilton worked to transform the ''state college'' into a broader university. But Virgil Hancher was deeply suspicious of the prospects for two, competing state universities after years of struggle ...
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  • Cotton’s Library
    Matt Kuhns
    ''Cotton’s Library'' reveals what can happen to a museum-quality collection before it reaches the safety of a museum (and sometimes even after). It is the story of an embryonic British national library assembled more than 400 years ago by Sir Robert Cotton. Boasting masterpieces of medieval illumination, the sole manuscript sources of Beowulf and ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knig...
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  • Brilliant Deduction
    Matt Kuhns
    'Brilliant Deduction' asks the question 'who are the greatest detectives ever' and then attempts to find an answer which doesn’t involve fictional characters. The result is nine men whose careers in the 19th and early 20th century represent the heroic years of real-world detection, from the very first full-time professionals to the Prohibition era. Each chapter examines a diffe...
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