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Look down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another "flyover state." A closer inspection, however, reveals one of the most tragic, fascinating, and unpredictable places in the United States Over the span of a century, Oklahoma gave birth to movements for an African American homelan... Read More about The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State

Famed for his exploration of the Pacific and Australasia, James Cook (1728-79) was also an excellent surveyor and a meticulous keeper of records. The journal entries presented here cover Cook's first voyage around the world aboard the Endeavour, during which he mapped New Zealand and claimed the eas... Read More about Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World, Made in H.M. Bark Endeavour, 1768-71: A Literal Transcription of the Original Mss (Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration)

The Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group provides an account of both the ordinary and modular representation theory of the symmetric groups. The range of applications of this theory is vast, varying from theoretical physics, through combinatories to the study of polynomial identity algebras;... Read More about The Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications #16)