
This Great Firebrand': William Laud and Scotland, 1617-1645: Volume 36
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William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45), remains one of the most controversial figures in...

Stanley Spencer: Art as a Mirror of Himself
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Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence...
The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
Claudia Brittenham and Maria Teresa Uriarte
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Between AD 650 and 950, artists at the small Central Mexican city-state of Cacaxtla covered the...
Missing Link: The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution
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We look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link - metaphor...

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Upon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971-2013) was hailed as a major...
The Shadow Crucible: The Blind God
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In a world where angels, demons, and gods fight over the possession of mortal souls, two conflicted...

It's About Time
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Stanley Moss dedicates these poems 'to departed friends: human, canine, arboreal, avian', setting...

Fortunes of France: The Brethren: No.1
Robert Merle, Neil Gower and T. Jefferson Kline
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The Perigord of sixteenth-century France is a wild region on the edge of the reaches of royal...

George Orwell: English Rebel
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An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of...

The Grammar of Spice
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Even the most enthusiastic cooks and food lovers have jars of dusty powders inhabiting kitchen...