Edith Piaf: A Cultural History
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The world-famous French singer Edith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. Dozens of biographies...
Keeper of Dreams: One Man's Controversial Story of Life in the English Premiership
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John Hendrie, Barnsley's ex-manager, on Lars Leese: 'Lars Leese is a shambles. He's a loser who...
Music Behind Barbed Wire: A Diary of Summer 1940
Hans Gal, Anthony Fox and Eva Fox-Gal
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The Austrian composer Hans Gal (1890-1987) was one of many Jewish refugees who fled to Britain from...
Aintree: The History of the Racecourse
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Each year, for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon in April, Aintree Racecourse becomes the focus of...
Marc Karlin: Look Again
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This book provides almost the only published material on the work of Marc Karlin. On his death in...
Isidore of Seville, on the Nature of Things
Calvin B. Kendall and Faith Wallis
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For scholars in the European Middle Ages, Isidore, bishop of Seville (560? - 636) was one of the...
Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World: Text, Translation and Commentary
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The text of the Periplous or 'circumnavigation' that survives under the name of 'Skylax of Karyanda'...
Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s
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Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as...
Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean: Institutions, Policy and Actors
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Green issues are rising rapidly up the agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean as governments...
Ecology of Freshwaters: Earth's Bloodstream
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The new edition of this established textbook, now with full colour illustration, has been...