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Kim Newman
Novelist and critic Kim Newman assesses the horror noir Cat People (1943), produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This important and influential film is considered in the light of its place in film history and as a …

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Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature
George Warner
Ibn Babawayh also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq was a prominent Twelver Shi'i scholar of hadith. Writing within the first century after the vanishing of the twelfth imam, al-Saduq represents a pivotal moment in Twelver hadith literature, as this Shi'i community …

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Scenes from the Saville Inquiry
Richard Norton-Taylor
Sunday 30th January 1972: 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead, and another 13 wounded when British soldiers opened fire during an anti-internment civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.The 1972 inquiry by Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery branded the …

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The Diaries of Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi, Rafiq Husseini
The diaries of Dr Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi offer a unique insight to the peculiarities of colonialism that have shaped Palestinian history. Elected mayor of Jerusalem his city of birth in 1935, the physician played a leading role in the Palestinian …
Jane Giles
Jane Giles' study traces the origins of 'The Crying Game' in Neil Jordan's early, award-winning films and books. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Jordan and producer Stephen Wooley, Giles details the film's tense and troubled production history.
Guy Standing
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book presents the Precariat an emerging class, comprising the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out …
Manfred Öhm
This study provides empirically based insights into the relationship between war, statehood and peaceful conflict resolution during the second Sudanese civil war and following the independence of South Sudan 2011. Several influencing factors have been identified: the dynamics of political …

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Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa
Tony Karbo, Tim Murithi
The African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security and development in Africa. Today, however, the intranational body is struggling in the midst of a perceived dissipating appetite for supporting continental institutions. Previously seen as the panacea …
Michael Morpurgo, Simon Reade
Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting …
Michael Berry
The three films comprising director Jia Zhangke's 'Hometown Trilogy' - Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000) and Unknown Pleasures(2002) - represent key contributions to the cinema of contemporary China. The films, which are set in Jia's home province of Shanxi, highlight …
Stacey Abbott
First released in 1987, Near Dark is a vampire film set in the contemporary American Midwest that tells the story of Caleb, a half-vampire trying to decide whether to embrace his vampire nature or return to his human family. The …

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Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut
Mohamad Hafeda
Drawing on innovative research into sectarian-political struggle in Beirut, Mohamad Hafeda shows how boundaries in a divided city are much more than simple physical divisions and reveals the ways in which city dwellers both experience them and subvert them in …

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Performance and Identity Politics in Northern Europe and the Baltic
Rosemary Martin
The countries surrounding the Baltic Sea - Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden have experienced immense social and political change, from the territorial maneuverings of Sweden, Russia, and Denmark, the reunification of Germany, to more recent …
Richard Jacobs, Lorelie S Masters, Paul Stanley KC
This is the third revised edition of what was described by the English Court of Appeal in C v D as the standard work on Bermuda Form excess insurance policies. The Form, first used in the 1980s, covers liabilities for …
Philip French, Kersti French
Wild Strawberries (1958) is probably Ingmar Bergman's most personal film and one which explores his relation to the history of Swedish cinema. Philip and Kersti French give a detailed account of Bergman's powerful and intense direction of the film. They …

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Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus
Firouzeh Mostashari
Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the historical antecedents to today's violent confrontations. With this in mind, On The …
Yaël Farber, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
With a Foreword by Archbishop Desmond TutuYael Farber's trilogy of plays bears powerful testimony to the personal truths of those who lived through the brutal Apartheid regime in South Africa.Woman in Waiting tells of Thembi Mtshali's separation from her mother …

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How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy
Ian Greer, Charles Umney
How do markets function? Who creates, shapes and organizes them? And what do they mean for the relationship between labor and capital?Marketization examines how the state and capital use markets to discipline the working class. Ian Greer and Charles Umney …
Mary Laws
A dark family drama from award-winning American playwright and screenwriter Mary Laws.Every family has a dark underbelly, especially the perfect ones.On a regular Sunday morning, Walt sits in his sunny suburban kitchen while wife Barb makes him breakfast. Over a …

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Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 34
Hayden Lorimer, Charles W. J. Withers
Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight essays that together demonstrate geographers' diverse scholarly engagement with the practise of their subject. There are two physical geographers (a Frenchman and an Englishman, both geomorphologists), a British historical geographer, a French …
Stefano Bertea, George Pavlakos
An important part of the legal domain has to do with rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of notions such as norm, obligation, duty and right. These require us to acknowledge the normative dimension of law. Normativity is, …

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Documentary: Grierson and Beyond
Brian Winston
Claiming the Real II describes the origins, development and current state of documentary cinema, and the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that determine its production. This new edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital technologies and proliferating forms that have …

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The History and Legends of Viking England
Eleanor Parker
Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far …

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Property and Human Rights in the Muslim World
Hilary Lim
In this pioneering work Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights, drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary resources. They address the significance of Islamic theories of property and Islamic land tenure regimes on …
Inua Ellams
The wild things they did with those tees. Some held together by wooden pins. Some strung to wear just once. Some of long thin detachable sleeves...A T-shirt is something most people have. It is a common denominator like a pair …
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