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The Enigma Behind Chairman Mao
Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s. Born in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the …
When it was released in 1995, Dead Man puzzled many audiences and critics. Jim Jarmusch's reputation was for directing slick, hip contemporary films. And Dead Man was a black-and-white Western. As time has passed, though, the number of its admirers …
"Is it possible for God to do wrong? To be wrong...? And if God is wrong, what then? Beauty, comedy, horror and tragedy collide in this gripping and powerful new play. Award-winning writer Fraser Grace re-spins the classical biblical tale …
View book details for Allopathy Goes Native
Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Iran
Allopathy is often described as 'western' medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy, yet all medical systems are infused with culture-specific values, ideas and beliefs. Agnes Loeffler's insightful and original book investigates how allopathic knowledge, theories and practice guidelines come to be …
View book details for Wonder Woman
The Female Body and Popular Culture
Wonder Woman was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and beauty and her near eighty-year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes. In this book, Joan Ormrod analyses key moments in the superheroine's career and views …
It's 1648. Agra, India. Imperial guards keep watch as the final touches are put to the mighty Taj Mahal behind them. The emperor has decreed that no one shall turn to look at the building until it is complete. Now, …
View book details for Peggy to her Playwrights
The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent
Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time. Her list of clients shows her to have been at the centre of British playwriting for several generations from the late 1950s on.To her remarkable array of clients, her …
Among the many constitutional developments of the past century or so, one of the most significant has been the creation and proliferation of institutions that perform functions similar to those performed by courts but which are considered to be, and …
BubbemeisesNoun. Yiddish; a grandmother's story, a tall story, an old wives' tale.Nick Cassenbaum invites you into the warmth of the Canning Town Schvitz, East London's last authentic bath house. Amongst the steam and ritual Nick will take you on a …
From the award-winning Regents Park Open Air Theatre comes a new version of the story of Dickens beloved orphan.The original story of Victorian London's most famous child. Oliver Twist created for everyone aged six and over. It will have you …
View book details for Lullabies of Broadmoor
A Broadmoor Quartet
Four plays. Five murderers. Five victims.Based on the true stories of five of Broadmoors most notorious inmates from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and the people they murdered. The closely linked plays of Lullabies of Broadmoor weave together …
View book details for The End of Empire in the Gulf
From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates
With the end of the British Raj in 1947, the Foreign Office replaced the Government of India as the department responsible for the Persian Gulf, and would proceed to manage relations with the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates, …
View book details for Ravens
Spassky vs. Fischer
Reykjavik, 1972. All eyes are on Iceland ahead of 'the Match of the Century': Boris Spassky vs. Bobby Fischer. For the two contenders, the stakes have never been higher the world title, unprecedented prize money, and stratospheric fame are all …
View book details for Cinema Beyond Territory
InFlight Entertainment and Atmospheres of Globalization
In this groundbreaking exploration of in-flight cinema, Stephen Groening traces the history of this transnational cinematic practice. At once a history of exhibition and an inquiry into changing forms of media and spectatorship, this interdisciplinary book opens up new directions …
V.F. Perkins explores Orson Welles' genius in directing actors, his intricate weaving of his own narration in and around the drama, and his unsurpassed use of the long take to capture the fines nuance of expression and unspoken feeling. For …
View book details for Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest.Laura Agustin …
The Kettlewells are a dysfunctional family. Richard is a charming old Etonian whose business ventures are failing. Over a crowded weekend, his daughter Pamela, whom he hardly knows, returns from Russia, a passionate communist; his ex-wife and mistress both unexpectedly …
View book details for Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats
Great Shakespeareans: Volume IV
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Hazlitt, John …
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Iran's Relations with Russia and China
The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the prism of historical experience. Rejecting the universality of …
International anti-terrorism measures existed long before 11 September 2001 but have increased markedly since. A myriad of norms in different branches of law are now deployed to confront transnational and domestic terrorism. There is also a proliferating body of 'soft …
View book details for The Millennium Development Goals
Raising the Resources to Tackle World Poverty
This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality …
View book details for South Sudan's Civil War
Violence, Insurgency and Failed Peacemaking
A mere two years after achieving independence, South Sudan in 2013 descended into violent civil war, refuting US government claims that the country's succession was a major foreign policy success and would end endemic conflict. Worse was to follow when …
View book details for The Horse in the Ancient World
From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome
The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn …
It's the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows what's causing them, but that doesn't stop people going missing in them.Now Steph and Bell, a schoolgirl and barmaid, have to search for their missing friend, until the …
"I've made four thousand six hundred medium-sized quiches and personally baked two tons of light crust pastry. And for what?'"As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph, she …
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