Sport: A Very Short Introduction
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Sport is big business; international in nature and the focus of much media and cultural attention....
Taken at Midnight
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In your quest for respectability I think we can say you have been talking out of both corners of...
The Church in the Later Middle Ages
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The Later Middle Ages (1300-1500 CE) have often been characterised as a period of decline for...
The Cinema of Cuba: Contemporary Film and the Legacy of the Revolution
Ann Marie Stock, Guy Baron and Antonio Alvarez Pitaluga
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Contemporary Cuba is opening up to the rest of the world. Its colonial past and the Communist...
The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History
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The Confucian-Legalist State analyzes the history of China between the 11th century BCE and 1911...
The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England: From Bondage to Freedom
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Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in...
The History of Radiology
Adrian M K Thomas and Arpan K. Banerjee
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In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working...
The 'Katrina Effect': On the Nature of Catastrophe
William M. Taylor, Michael P. Levine, Oenone Rooksby and Joely-Kym Sobott
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On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the...
The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
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According to Egyptian mythology, when the god Re cried, his tears turned into bees upon touching the...
Theorising the European Union as an International Security Provider
Annemarie Peen Rodt, Richard Whitman and Stefan Wolff
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The European Union has increasingly taken on a role as international security provider that extends...