Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time
Nicolas Slonimsky and Peter Schickele
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A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and...
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan
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Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world,...
Eleanor Marx: A Life
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Unrestrained by convention, lionhearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman....
A Word from the Wise: All the Witty Wisdom You'll Ever Need in One Lifetime from Those Who've Already Been There
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'A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees,' as William Blake so aptly put it. What he...
Richard III
William Shakespeare and Thomas Cartelli
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This Norton Critical Edition of Richard III is based on the First Quarto (1597) edition of the play...
Wearing the Trousers: Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the Modern Woman
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In the 1850s a craze swept through the wardrobes of the women of British and American society. These...
Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age
Winston S. Churchill, Paul E. Gottfried and James W. Muller
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Churchill Sizes Up the Giants of His Age, Offers Wisdom for Our Own Winston Churchill was awarded...
Blood on the Page
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'Meticulous and gripping' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street A groundbreaking examination of...
The Mammoth Book of Great British Humour
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A doorstopper of a collection of the very best of both contemporary and classic British wit and...