Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
Georgina Born, Eric Lewis and Will Straw
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Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and...
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A World of Struggle: How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy
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A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As...
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Jenna Miscavige Hill and Lisa Pulitzer
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Jenna Miscavige Hill was born into the Church of Scientology. The niece of its current director,...
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Adam Faith: Big Time, the Life of
David Stafford and Caroline Stafford
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Most pop stars' fame used to end with their 25th birthday, but Adam Faith just kept on being...
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The Woman in the Dunes
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Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the...
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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Music Made New in New York City in the ’70s
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Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the city's infrastructure was collapsing, but...
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John le Carre: The Biography
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Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carre a worldwide,...
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The Birds and Other Plays
Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein and David Barrett
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Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a...
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An Alien Sky: The Story of One Man's Remarkable Adventure in Bomber Command During the Second World War
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By any measure, Andy Wiseman (born Weizman) is a lucky man. The only son of a Polish father and an...
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Norman Bethune in Spain: Commitment, Crisis & Conspiracy
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Born to fanatical religious zealots, deeply wounded by an unloving mother and a weak father whom he...