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From the World Fantasy Award-winning pages of Cemetery Dance--the premier horror magazine in the fie... more

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of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of...... more

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Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany s leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect ... more

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The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But ... more

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From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities were ... more

Since the rise of the Native American Renaissance in literature and culture during the American civi... more

This book rethinks the notion of nineteenth-century capital(s) from geographical, economic and symbo... more

This volume explores the theme of time in early modern France: time past, time present and time futu... more

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare s work. Justly celebrated for its au... more

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by Richard Sorabji in his series of translations of the commentators started in the 1980s, these ancient texts have...... more

Shakespeare’s world, or in our own world. Finally, a colloquy among Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Judge Richard Posner...... more

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the social sciences. RICHARD ALTSCHULER, Ph.D., is the editor of Seminal Sociological Writings: From Auguste Comte to Max...... more

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Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the ’death’ o... more

This volume is a collection of fifteen papers written by a team of international experts in the fiel... more

Even though horror has been a key component of media output for almost a century, the genre’s indust... more

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