An Opera for Everybody: The Story of English National Opera
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Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums...
Leviathan
Tom Griffith and Thomas Hobbes
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With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first...
Liberal Democracies and the Torture of Their Citizens
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This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies responded to the use of torture against...
Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-cultural Exchange in Pre-modern Asia
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Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa,...
Necropolis: London and its Dead
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From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian...
Revolution
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The twentieth century was an age of revolutions. As the pace of social and economic change quickened...
Sustainability
Thomas Pfister, Martin Schweighofer and Andre Reichel
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Sustainability as a reference frame for dealing with the interconnection of environmental, economic...
Transmission in Motion: The Technologizing of Dance
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How can various technologies, from the more conventional to the very new, be used to archive, share...
Sport and English National Identity in a 'Disunited Kingdom'
Tom Gibbons and Dominic Malcolm
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Given sport's centrality in English society, what role does it play in symbolising contemporary...
The Discovery of France: Picador Classic
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With an introduction by Colm Toibin Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was...