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Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant…

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This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Edmond…

This is a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance -- noh, kyogen, kabuki, and bamrili puppet theater…

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Newshawks in Berlin reveals how the Associated Press covered Nazi Germany from its earliest days through the aftermath of…

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In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book…

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Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to…

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Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works -- Interventions: Nine Critical…

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