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An illustrated guide to the best gangster movies. It ranks and reviews the Top 100 gangster movies, including informative facts and trivia, special features, and original contributions from actors and gangsters. Featuring two colour design and black and white photos throughout, it is suitable for gangster movies fans.

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First published in Argentina 2015 as Lo incapturable by Reservoir Books.

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First published in Argentina 2015 as Lo incapturable by Reservoir Books.

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This handbook offers a rare glimpse into the private art collection of the Union League Club Chicago, inaccessible to the public, yet replete with premiere works of art by artists as diverse as Claude Monet and Hebru Brantley. The collection celebrates excellence and invention by artists creating in the nineteenth century to modern times.

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A historical overview of the development of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame including career biographies of all the inductees.

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This book explores the aspects of American history and the process of interpreting historical evidence. Professor Lubove discusses phases of urbanization in the progressive era, the attitude toward cities, the role of government, and public and private responsibility in shaping the urban physical environment.

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Traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.

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This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. This fascinating study shows us how the legend has been adapted and how through the popular medium of Hollywood films, the Arthurian legend has survived and flourished.

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Essays in aesthetics by the philosopher Ernst Bloch that belong to the tradition of cultural criticism represented by Georg Lukcs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin.

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Join Sir Dorian in the third and final Quest in Musical Acres. He meets Rubato, another Knight who interacts differently with the world but, in the end, saves the day when Sir Dorian has an unexpected problem. Be a part of the music they all make to celebrate at the end! You won't want to miss out on this final Quest.

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"An academic collection that explores and examines The Velvet Underground in the 1960s and the solo activities of band members up to the present"--

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Planned with the same passion as a landscape garden, filled with monuments that represented the start of the art of craftsmanship in stone, and equipped with expensively constructed and fashionably designed gatehouses and chapels of rest, the Victorian cemetery was a matter of real civic pride. This illustrated study tells its fascinating story.

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This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artificecovering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the timeto the link between the three classes, between man and nature, and between Viennese and Other.

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"A critical analysis of the depiction of vigilantism in 1970s American cinema"--

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What happens when you relocate to the perfect house, in the perfect village in Provence, and nearly ten years later the shine has gone Garden designer Alex Dingwall-Main is facing lavender fatigue, strife at home, neighbourly warfare and non-paying business clients.

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The Viola, How it Works presents information on the technical and historical aspects of the viola in relation to its position in the non-fretted string instrument family.

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This book offers a new account of the development of conflict photography. It explores how the new technology of the camera was used in the British and French empires as a means of controlling subject populations, and how these populations found ways of turning the technology against their oppressors.

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