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A Short History of Disease chronicles the historical and geographical evolution of infectious and non-infectious diseases, from their prehistoric origins to the present. A new afterword explores the origins of Covid-19 and examines how governments across the globe dealt with the most serious public health emergency in a...

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Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 70s. Although he made only seven features, each one was a major landmark in cinema, the most well-known of them being the mediaeval epic Andrei Rublev - widely regarded as one...

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The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of Europe's population died. In England the population fell from nearly six million to...

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The Cathars, a beautifully illustrated volume by the leading author on the subject, unveils the mysteries surrounding the Cathars, their links with the Knights Templar, the Troubadours, and the search for the Holy Grail.

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The Knights Templar were the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages.Formed to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land, they participated in the Crusades and rapidlygained wealth, lands and influence and were answerable to none save the Pope himself.

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The Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting and non-violence. They believed themselves to be the heirs of the true heritage of Christianity, and completely rejected the Catholic Church and all its trappings, regarding it as the church of Satan. Cathar services and...

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Explores the history of the many New Waves in cinema, including their forebears such as the German Expressionists, the French New Wave's contemporaries and heirs, such as the Czech New Wave, the British New Wave, and other new waves, such as those of Greece, Hungary, documentary, animation, avant garde and the so-called No Wave filmmakers.

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Often alchemy is seen as an example of medieval gullibility and the alchemists as a collection of eccentrics and superstitious fools. Yet nothing could be further from the truth....