50 Speeches That Made the Modern World: Famous Speeches from Women's Rights to Human Rights
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Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting...
Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
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American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the...
Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on Screen
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Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828--1905), the author's very name conjures visions...
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...
The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007
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This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of...
The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy
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As a boy, he spied for Sherlock Holmes. As a man, he must save the Empire. London 1909: The British...
Two Great Novels: Up the Walls of the World & Brightness Falls from the Air
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Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon - better known to the world as science fiction writer James Tiptree,...
Nomad
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'NOMAD is unputdownable. A must-read.' - Wilbur Smith FIND THE TRUTH BEFORE THEY FIND YOU A...
Winter of the World
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Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions...
Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics
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Horsemeat in burgers was hard to swallow, but there are far more sinister culinary crimes...