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Image credit: Ink illustration for endpapers of Millions of Cats (1928), by Wanda Gág, from the Wanda Gág Papers in the Children's Literature Research Collections.

While the popularity of serializing novels peaked in the 19th century, the tradition goes back further and continues today.

Expanding ecology with a free textbook and an international friendship
Professor Clarence Lehman wrote the book on quantitative ecology, literally.

But when Lehman published “Quantitative Ecology: A New Unified Approach” back in 2019 – alongside the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing and co-authors Shelby Loberg and Adam Clark – he never expected the reach it would have.
Contesting Control: Labor Certification, Civil Rights, and the Making of U.S. Immigration Policy
US immigration laws in the second half of the 20th century transformed from overt racial classifications to more subtle, birthplace-based systems.
Painting on the Art Speak Machine: CBI acquires the collection of Computer Artist Maureen A. Nappi
The digital world would be entirely opaque without screens and graphics, without computer artists and designers, without people like Maureen Nappi. Her renowned computer graphics work defines how we interact with computers and makes us interrogate the intersection of technology and culture.

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