Francois Truffaut: The Lost Secret
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For Francois Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and...

Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930
Andrew Thompson, John MacKenzie and Stephanie Barczewski
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Country houses and the British empire, 1700-1930 assesses the economic and cultural links between...

Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical
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This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long...

Constructing a Community of Thought: Letters on the Scholarship, Teaching, and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner
Robert Lake and M. Cathrene Connery
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This book validates the prolific contribution of Dr. Vera John-Steiner to the social sciences and...

Cruising Yachts: Design and Performance
Thomas Harrison Butler and Ed Burnett
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Dr Thomas Harrison Butler was a skilled, yet amateur, designer responsible for some hundreds of...

Eisenstein on Paper: Graphic Works by the Master of Film
Ian Christie, Naum Kleiman and Martin Scorcese
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This landmark publication presents, for the first time ever, 500 of the very best and previously...

Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground
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The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays,...
Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity
Ruth Hellier and Ellen Koskoff
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Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts...

Selected Letters
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The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is...

The Twelve Ceasars
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'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but...