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Leads us on a chronological journey through popular music poster art - the jazz, rock and roll, pop and punk scenes in Australia. This work reproduces over five hundred posters, and tells us where poster art sits in the world of fine art. It evokes the stories of the artists, promoters and performers that surround these posters.

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Two plays set in London on the eve of the Olympic Games. In 'Taking Part' a Congolese security guard dreams of swimming for his country at the Games. In 'After The Party' two flailing DJs from Stratford hope the Olympics will revive their fortunes.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. This is a collection of verses which are devoted to love and religion.

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The design reproduced on this cover centres around a sensitive plant surrounded by other richly hued flowers, foliage and butterflies. The binding was used for The Sensitive Plant and Early Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley and is a celebration of the creative spirit. Original Art: Binding by Riviere and Son for Shelley's The Sensitive Plant and Early Poems. Era: 1910. Region: London, England.

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The contributors to this book examine the issues involved in what direction British policing should take. Should it promote itself as a police force, dedicated to the attack on crime and public disorder, or should it adopt the mantle of police service, devoted to providing reassurance

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Why are western societies - and particularly Britain - becoming more deeply divided, more violent, more squalid Donnison draws on the experience of innovative civic leaders, community activists, local policy-makers and researchers to answer these pressing questions.

(, 3rd edition)

As well as introducing the "mainstream" ideologies of Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism, this text examines challenges from nationalist, feminist and Green thinkers, amongst others. Now in its third edition, it includes a new chapter on anarchism and assesses the continuing disillusionment of Britain with the ideas of the "Westminster elite".

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A survey of the explosive rise of Pop from 1950s-60s.

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An introduction to the great masters of the Pop Art movement.

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Prepare to be charmed. For anyone awakened to the possibility of magic we present the Mila Marquis Collection.

Draws upon author's knowledge of jewelry, painting, history and literature to set the portrait jewels in the context of people's lives, bringing to life five centuries of extraordinary events and personalities, and at the same time illustrating an aspect of the history of jewelry never explored to this degree.

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She was born plain Dora, in a bleak northern town where her future seemed all too predictable. But from the moment she first walked, pursuing a coloured ball across the floor, she went after what she wanted, and got it. At the age of eighteen she wanted freedom and a new life - and a new name, Chloe.

Revival of a successful play from of one of the West End's most successful post-war dramatists.

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Presents the photographer's images taken over forty years in chronological order, displaying his vision of the American landscape from Nevada cow camps to the Memphis music scene to Amish life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Positive psychology is an attempt to redress the balance and focus on the positive aspects of life (human strengths and virtues that are found in the happiest people).

Positive psychology development programs are becoming commonplace in businesses, schools, and places of worship.

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A collection of true stories that confirms Augusten Burroughs' position as one of our top satirists and memoirists.

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Pounamu is a celebration of jade in its many forms. It is a magnificent tribute to this New Zealand icon, the finest book on the subject ever published.

The most comprehensive encyclopedia available on the U.S. government's responses to poverty from the colonial era to the present day.

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An account of life in contemporary South Africa as presented by a Peace Corps volunteer and the grandson of Jimmy Carter offers a portrait of a country struggling to recover from deep racial divisions.

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POWER METAL explores the crucial role that rare metals play in technology and energy and the global race to secure them for the future.