The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
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If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is...
Salinger
David Shields and Shane Salerno
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Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and...
Sky's the Limit: Froome, Wiggins and the Quest to Conquer the Tour de France: 2013
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On Sunday 22 July, Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider ever to win the Tour de France. It...
The Booles and the Hintons: Two Dynasties That Helped Shape the Modern World
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In 1983 Gerry Kennedy set off on a tour through Russia, China, Japan and the USA to visit others...
Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis
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The interventions of crisis management during the 2007 to 2011 financial crisis were not simply...
Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore's Forgotten Movie Theaters
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Baltimore has been home to hundreds of theaters since the first moving pictures flickered across...
Global Energy: Issues, Potentials, and Policy Implications
Paul Ekins, Mike Bradshaw and Jim Watson
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Energy, and access to energy, are essential to human life, civilisation and development. A number of...
Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress: The Golden Age of Italian Cult Cinema, 1970-1985
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In recent years, there has been an explosion of critical interest in the icons, genres and...
Collections Care and Stewardship: Innovative Approaches for Museums
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Collections Care and Stewardship: Innovative Approaches for Museums considers best practices and...
Introduction to US Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
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Health care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the...