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CULTURAL COHESION
The Essential Essays, 1968-2002CLIVE JAMES
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You Save: 52%Rather than shunning popular tastes, the late Clive James sought to mould them. He wrote as lucidly and intelligently about daytime television, Marilyn Monroe and lurid romance novels as about poetry,... Learn More -
THE ROUTLEDGE CIRCUS STUDIES READER
Edited by PETA TAIT and KATIE LAVERS
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You Save: 53%Circus, an art form which explores the aesthetic potential of extreme physical action by bodies (animal and human), is particularly focused on direct engagement with audiences. In a kaleidoscope of st... Learn More -
THE ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH COMPANION TO ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Edited by DEBORAH MORSE, MARGARET MARKWICK and MARK W TURNER
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You Save: 74%A comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship. The collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to the novelist, including the law, politics, evolution, race, anti-Semitism, biograp... Learn More -
TRAGEDY AND DRAMATIC THEATRE
HANS-THIES LEHMANN
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You Save: 52%This account of tragedy is a milestone in our understanding of this core foundation of the dramatic arts. From the philosophical roots and theories of tragedy, through its inextricable relationship wi... Learn More -
CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ATHENS
Iconography and Social HistoryLESLEY A BEAUMONT
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You Save: 52%A study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state. It concentrates not only on the child’s own experience, but also examines the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian soc... Learn More -
MEMENTO MORI
What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and DeathP V JONES
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You Save: 47%Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age of five. Only... Learn More -
THE ANTIMODERN CONDITION
An Argument Against ProgressPETER KING
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You Save: 75%Much of social and political thought over the last three centuries has been concerned with change, progress and a focus on creating something ‘better’ than we have now. This provocative book prese... Learn More -
CRIME CONTROL AS INDUSTRY
Towards Gulags, Western StyleNILS CHRISTIE
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You Save: 45%Prison populations, especially in Russia and America, have grown at an increasingly rapid rate and show no signs of slowing. In a revised classic of criminology, Christie argues that this vast and gro... Learn More -
THE ESSENTIAL CHOMSKY
NOAM CHOMSKY
Edited By :ANTHONY ARNOVE
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You Save: 48%An overview of the seminal writings of the leading philosopher, linguist and critic, from his critique of B F Skinner to his bestselling works Hegemony or Survival and Failed States, co... Learn More -
FEWER, BETTER THINGS
The Hidden Wisdom of ObjectsGLENN ADAMSON
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You Save: 51%If we know little about how things are made, it’s hard to remain connected to the world around us. A mix of family lore and cultural history, this book explores the history of craft in its many form... Learn More
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