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Join us for an afternoon book talk on Land:  How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World, Simon Winchester’s latest book.  In it he discusses the demarcation of land and goes on to discuss “the making of borders not just between individual people, but between villages, between towns, between counties and prefectures, between states, between nations.” Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines how we acquire land, how we steward it, how and why we fight over…