Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums,...
Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
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Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos...
Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914
Paul A. Pickering and Kate Bowan
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Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world....
The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World
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'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make ...it is that we all go...
Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
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This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality...
Chinese Ivory Carvings: The Sir Victor Sassoon Collection
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Sir Victor Sassoon (1881-1961) lived an extraordinary and colourful life and left a remarkable...
In the Age of Giorgione
Simone Facchinetti and Arturo Galansino
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Venice at the start of the sixteenth century was Europe's undisputed capital of culture: home to...
Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths: An Introduction
Klaus Junker, Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass and Anthony Snodgrass
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From the age of Homer until late antiquity the culture of ancient Greece and Rome was permeated by...
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
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The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, spectres and sprites,...
An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin
Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell
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Reading Latin, first published in 1986, is a bestselling Latin course designed to help mature...