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Shakespeare wrote out of, and about, a common humanity, and it is with humanity, common and uncommon, that we must read or watch him.

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This volume is an ideal introduction to Freud's work, and gives a clear sense both of the context of Freud's text and of its influence throughout the twentieth century. It shows how his work shaped a vast amount of work in linguistics and semiotics, literary studies, film theory, psychology, philosophical hermeneutics and the history of ideas.

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Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and making new and provocative connections.

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Aristotle's "Physics" is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. This text provides a translation of Simplicius' commentary on his work.

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A collection of new letters from these fantastic literary events, featuring a wide range of Australian talent, including writers, musicians, politicians, comedians and actors.

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"Tom Bodett, Alaska's main comic export, is that rarest of commodities, an original new talent in American humor. His commentaries on "All Things Considered" and his radio spots for Motel 6 have deligh"

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An amusing, often outrageous, collection of the best columns Robert G.Barrett wrote for People magazine, focusing on Australian life and its heroes and villains.together these columns represent an often funny, always entertaining and uniquely telling assessment of modern-day Australia.

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A selection of sketches by humourist Ring Lardner. Taken from a variety of publications, from "Good Housekeeping" to "The New Yorker", this collection includes "What I Ought to Have Learnt in School", "Insomnia", "X-Ray" and "Who's Who - and Why".

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A posthumous collection of the essays of June Jordan, noted for its "love of language" and "expression of social identity" (Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle)

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For over 40 years, Antony Grey has been a leading campaigner, not only for gay rights, but also for better laws about, and more sensible attitudes towards, sex generally. This collection of his writings covers topics such as: law and morality; pornography and free speech; and the Church.

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Statius' fourth book (AD 95) follows its preface with nine poems celebrating occasions from the building of a road, to the gift-giving Saturnalian festival. This edition provides the first commentary since Vollmer's of 1898; it covers textual, linguistic, literary and historical questions.

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Reading provides a unique kind of pleasure and no-one should live without it. This title tells us about the experience of reading, why access to books should never be taken for granted, how reading transforms our brains, and how literature can save lives.

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An anthology of stories from new and renowned women writers from the Caribbean

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A collection of the legendary filmmaker's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966, in which we see the machinations of the creative mind in post-World War II Rome.

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Heinrichboll (1917-85) was one of the most outspoken of literary figures, "The Conscience of Germany" if not the West, in speaking upon the hypocrisies of both denazification and the wonder of German economic recovery during the 1950s. A wounded soldier himself, Boll was a champion of individual rights over the authority of the State.

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The Flavian dynasty ruled Rome from AD 69 to 96. This text provides a translation of Suetonius' accounts of the three Flavian emperors - Vespasian, Titus and Domitian - taken from his "Lives", as well as a general introduction to Suetonius and a detailed commentary.

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Includes a comprehensive introduction to the life of Tacitus and his style as a historian and writer.With notes and a vocabulary.

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"A Vintage Books Original"--Title page verso.

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Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes readers from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her involvement in radical women's groups and the New York Gay Liberation Front.