Boundaries of Authority
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Modern states claim rights of jurisdiction and control over particular geographical areas and their...
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation
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Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the...
Modernity Britain: 1957-1962
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David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour...
The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914
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In the years between the Great Famine of the 1840s and the First World War, Ireland experienced a...
Barker: Plays Seven
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"Und, a play for one woman and six trays, is a moving study of dignity and self-delusion. When a...
The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick
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In the course of fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick produced some of the most haunting and...
The Story of Sex: From Apes to Robots
Philippe Brenot, Laetitia Coryn and Will McMorran
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*The French Best-seller* 'The book France won't stop talking about...undoubtedly a lovely Christmas...
Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds
Denise J. Youngblood and Tony Shaw
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The Cold War was as much a battle of ideas as a series of military and diplomatic confrontations,...
Debating Darwin
Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse
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Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is...