Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale
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Pola Negri (1897--1987) rose from an impoverished childhood in Warsaw, Poland, to become one of...
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
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Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness....
Fatal Glamour: The Life of Rupert Brooke
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Rupert Brooke (b. 1887) died on April 23, 1915, two days before the start of the Battle of...
Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street
Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock
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Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain...
Evaluating High-Speed Rail: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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High-speed Rail (HSR) is a technological transportation advance that has raised the interest of...
China and Mozambique: From Comrades to Capitalists
Chris Alden and Sergio Chichava
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China's rising position in African affairs, from that of quiescence to becoming a key economic actor...
Conceptual Metaphor in Social Psychology: The Poetics of Everyday Life
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We learn in grade school that metaphor is an ornamental figure of speech reserved for poets. But we...
Fantasies of the Library
Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin
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Fantasies of the Library lets readers experience the library anew. The book imagines, and enacts,...
Extreme Asia: The Rise of Cult Cinema from the Far East
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How shrewd marketing engineered the East Asian cult film boom in the UK. Japanese horror. South...