James Bond: The Secret History
Sean Egan and Jeremy Duns
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James Bond entered the world in 1953 with the novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. Since then, the...
The Curse of Frankenstein
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Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office...
Lives of the Law: Selected Essays and Speeches: 2000-2010
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Tom Bingham (1933-2010) was the 'greatest judge of our time' (The Guardian), a towering figure in...
Mediation and Arbitration in the Middle Ages: England 1154 to 1558
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This is the story of how disputes of all kinds were managed in England between AD 1154 and the first...
Nuclear Terrorism: Countering the Threat
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This volume aims to improve understanding of nuclear security and the prevention of nuclear...
Private Military and Security Contractors: Controlling the Corporate Warrior
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In Private Military and Security Contractors (PMSCs) a multinational team of scholars and experts...
Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692
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The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe, the Salem...
Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West
Teresa Lavender Fagan and Alain Boureau
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Before the end of the thirteenth century, theologians had little interest in demons, but with Thomas...
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
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The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion comprehensively and...
The Invention of Law in the West
Antony Shugaar, Aldo Schiavone and Jeremy Carden
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Law is a specific form of social regulation that is distinct from religion, ethics, and even...