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Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly...

A study of plays that upset the status of the world to acheive comedy from the early modern period to the Restoration.

The Rapes of Lucretia: a myth and its transformations

Analysis of Browning's major poetry

Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have...

The New York Times bestselling Culture novel... The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles...

A critical examination of the history and development of the art of photography ranges from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present

The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are a performing arts phenomenon. Wildly popular when first produced, they are if anything even more popular today. The Savoy Operas are available on records...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / From the Booker Prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending novel full of secrets and surprises, and an immersive exploration,...

Now in a new second edition, this volume presents a clear and concise treatment of an increasingly important branch of mathematics. A unique introductory survey complete with easy-to-understand...

An entirely fresh perspective on the history of cinema, using timelines to trace its development from the earliest moving images to now. This visual timeline for film enthusiasts makes the history...

In studying the Late Antique period there are different approaches: political history (fall of the West Roman Empire and its replacement by the Successor States), socio-economic history (e.g...