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Offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the postwar period -- .

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A biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster.

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This is the first book to draw together the rich and growing literature on the life cycle in Western Europe, c.1300-c.1500. In discussing lifes stages, from birth to death, the study explores attitudes towards ageing, rites of passage, and the influence played by gender, class and regional location.

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This volume analyses major French plays of the 1830s, focusing on their theatricality, and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theatre rather than conceal them. It breaks new ground in nineteenth-century theatre scholarship while proposing a fresh direction in the study of text and performance. -- .

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This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. It provides a valuable glimpse of the late twelfth-century world, and an insight into the minds of those who witnessed the events. -- .

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This text provides an introduction to how the Lander (the 16 states of Germany) function, not only within the country itself, but also within the wider context of European political affairs. The Lander enable students to better understand federalism and the broader political system in Germany.

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The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, and writings supplied by its participants.

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This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films. -- .

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This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films. -- .

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This book examines the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution. It shows how and why preaching became an indispensable tool for those who sought to resist the seismic changes in Church and state that England experienced between 1640 and 1662.

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A study of the rich and engrossing life of Stephen Gwynn, an important political, cultural and literary figure from the lost world of late-nineteeth and early-twentieth-century Ireland. -- .

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The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency.

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The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency.

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Fully annotated edition of the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays -- .

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This book shows how Rolex has become the embodiment of individual success since the 1960s. This brand is much more than a watch: it is a narrative on a triple exceptionality: that of a product, that of an entrepreneur, and that of the wealthy consumers who wear it. A must-read for understanding the phenomenal success of Swiss watchmaking.

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The first history of bioethics in Britain -- .

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This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. Over 160 commented sources describe the political, social and economic developments that changed Germany from the abyss of Nazism into a prosperous ally of the West and into one of the driving forces of European integration. -- .

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An examination of the Conservative Party's period in opposition between 1974 and 1979, focusing on policy development, which argues that the short term political context of the time best explains why Conservative policy did not change as much as might be expected, and draws wider conclusions about Thatcherism and Britain in the 1970s. -- .

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The Malcontent is one of the most complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre. The aim of this edition is to offer answers to the various questions raised by the play and relate it to the aesthetic cross-currents flowing at the turn of the seventeenth century.

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Usually considered to be John Marston's masterpiece, "The Malcontent" is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre - complex in genre, structure and language. This edition has notes designed for modern undergraduate use.

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This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body-that it was malleable.

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This accessible English translation of the notorious and highly influential treatise of 1487 offers a glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter.

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This essential work for students of economic and economic history provides an overview of economic management in Britain since 1945, how it has changed and why it has not always been successful. It examines clearly the policies introduced, the problems various governments faced in implementing them and how policy-making changed. -- .

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This edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. It provides the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorruption reforms, and shifting meanings of corruption.