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1688 THE FIRST MODERN REVOLUTION by PINCUS STEVEN
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Category: History | Series: The\Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that it--not the French Revolution--was the first truly modern revolution For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolu ...Show more
ANATHEISM RETURNING TO GOD AFTER GOD by Richard Kearney
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics and Culture (COUP) Ser.
Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split b ...Show more
Art Quake - The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art by Susie Hodge
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Category: Art | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up. ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy. Causi ...Show more
Battling the Plantation MentalityMemphis and the Black Freedom Struggle by Laurie B. Green
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Category: No Category | Series: The\John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture Ser.
African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the ass ...Show more
Billy Wilder - Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: Film and Culture Ser.
The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films--including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment--Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's greatest social satirist. Though an influential fixture in Hollywood, Wilder always saw himself as an outsid ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the ...Show more
Deco Dandy by Potvin, John
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture Ser.
Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences of decorative modernism, nationalism, gender and sexuality in the years surrounding World War I converge in the protean figure of the 'deco dand ...Show more
FashionQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Fashion by Caroline Young
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
FashionQuake presents fashions most disruptive, rebellious and ground-breaking moments. This is what happens when fashion designers take tradition and rip it up. FashionQuake introduces 50 pivotal moments that shook the world and changed mainstream fashion forever, telling the fascinating stories behi ...Show more
Film Quake - The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema by Ian Haydn Smith
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. In FilmQuake, Ian Haydn Smith selects the 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, recepti ...Show more
France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History by Michael Burns
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Category: Judaica | Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture
This work provides a brief documentary history of the Dreyfus affair, the infamous episode in which a French Jewish army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, was unjustly convicted of treason in 1894 and 1899 and then acquitted and exonerated in 1906. The narrative is interspersed with approximately 65 brief docume ...Show more
Inversions (#6 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Culture Ser.
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his e ...Show more