St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire
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'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality...
Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century
Thomas Graham and Scott L. Montgomery
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Nuclear power is not an option for the future but an absolute necessity. Global threats of climate...
Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Claude V. Palisca and Thomas J. Mathiesen
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This essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was...
The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History
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Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the...
Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan
Dora C. Y. Ching, Louise Allison Cort and Andrew M. Watsky
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An in-depth look at the dynamic cultural world of tea in Japan during its formative period Around...
Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India
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During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In...
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century: The Literary Agenda
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and...
Great Russian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century
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Short stories by Chekhov, Bulgakov, Gorky and other acclaimed Russian writers of the Twentieth...
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Miscellany
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Poetic miscellanies have been almost entirely neglected in studies of Shakespeare's textual...