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Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary

The caustic aphorisms collected in "The Devil's Dictionary" helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. The words he shaped in…

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Giovanni Boccaccio,
The Decameron

The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten…

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Edgar Rice Burroughs,
Tarzan of the Apes

Readership: Readers of popular fiction, adventure stories, American literature, students of popular fiction and culture, gener, and race studies. A central figure in American popular culture, Tarzan first…

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Joseph Conrad,
Nostromo

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'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.' One of the greatest political novels …

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Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.' …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust Part One

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The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuro…

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A C Grayling
Meditations for the Humanist

"Magnanimity is in short supply," writes A. C. Grayling is this wonderfully incisive book, "but it is the main ingredient in everything that makes the world a better place" And indeed Meditations for the …

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Sara Jones
Television, Cult and the Fantastic

Examines their genres, themes, textual and marketing strategies, relating these to wider debates about audiences and consumers, the culture industry, technologies and storytelling

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John Polidori,
Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

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`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' John…

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Michael Prestwich
Plantagenet England 1225-1360

The dramatic period 1225-1360 in Britain witnessed Simon de Montfort's challenge to the crown, Edward II's deposition and death, great English victories in France, and the disaster of the Black Death. It …

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Giovanni Sambin
Positive Topology

This book contains the first systematic exposition of a new discipline called positive topology, which brings many conceptual and mathematical innovations and many benefits for mathematical practice and a…

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A. J. P. Taylor
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918

The system of international repression ended with the fall of Metternich in 1848. The conflicting ideals of international revolution and collective security came into being with Lenin and Wilson in 1918. …

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Voltaire,
Letters concerning the English Nation

Inspired by Voltaire's stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncem…

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John Waller
Breeding

John Waller presents a history of one of the most important concepts in western thought: heredity. Tracing the development of our understanding of inheritance from the ancient Greeks to the advance of mod…

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What Is a Nation?

Nationalism has had global repercussions throughout the modern world, lying at the root of wars, revolutions, and social and cultural movements. This volume analyses and compares different forms of nation…

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