Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film
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Of all the major Soviet composers who worked in the cinema, the most prominent was Dmitri...
Medicine and the Science of the Stars: Astrological Physick in Early Modern England
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Despite the modern view of astrology as a pseudoscience, the movements and corresponding effects of...
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
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China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies,...
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre
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Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its...
The Soils of Spain: 2016
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This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the soils of Spain gathered by a...
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes...
The American Songbook: Music for the Masses
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With their unforgettable melodies, timeless messages, and stylistic indebtedness to both jazz and...
Sons of Ishmael: Muslims Through European Eyes in the Middle Ages
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John Tolan is one of the world's foremost scholars in the field of early Christian/Muslim...
Spirit of '67: The Cardiac Kids, El Birdos, and the World Series That Captivated America
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Using the colorful and tumultuous 1960s as a backdrop, acclaimed author Thomas J. Whalen's Spirit of...
The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
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Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the...
