Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Hysteria as a disease no longer exists, but in the nineteenth century hysteria was thought to affect...
National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered
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Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas...
Whitney: The Whitney Museum of Art
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The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due...
El Lissitzky: The Experience of Totality
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This is a fascinating and sumptuously illustrated overview of the work of El Lissitzk, one of the...
The Spirit of London
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A copy of this title is being given to each participating athlete in the London 2012 Olympic Games...
Aled Jones - My Story
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Aled Jones was a choirboy with a remarkable voice, whose prodigious talent propelled him to...
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...
Margaret the First
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'I am as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or...
Girl in the Dark
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"An astonishing memoir" Sonali Deraniyagala, author of Wave BOOK OF THE WEEK ON BBC RADIO 4 'Oh,...
Hawker Hurricane and Sea Hurricane
Martin Derry and Neil Robinson
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When Sidney Camm's masterpiece, the Hawker Hurricane, entered RAF service in late 1937 it quickly...