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Top Hat" is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes. Offers a detailed analysis of one of Hollywood's greatest musicals, including a comprehensive survey of the film's production, promotion and reception, all measured against the background of 1930s socio-political contexts in the USAExplores the musical genre...

The Story Of Textiles. THE STORY of textiles began many long centuries ago, and is being continued by those of us who make and use the marvelous fabrics of today. It is a story which takes us far afield, in place as well as in time. It carries us far from our own doorsteps into other lands and other sections of our own country, where the raw materials are produced and skillful people turn them into the textiles with which we each live. And the...

Centuries of tragedy shadow New Orleans: wars, slavery, and a monumental flood that killed a thousand people and still threatens to wash all that history away.Faye Longchamp and her team of archaeologists, fighting to save New Orleans' past, are horrified when they discover a corpse that's far too new to be an archaeological find. The police presume it's just another dead body in the long, sad sequence of bodies left by Hurricane Katrina, unti...

Praise for Strangers..."Evans' excellent series continues to combine solid mysteries and satisfying historical detail."-Kirkus Reviews Faye Longchamp and husband Joe Wolf Mantooth have founded an archaeological consulting firm-just in time for the economy to tank. But a meeting with a couple who run an elegant B&B, in an historic home in St. Augustine, Florida, lands the firm's first big project. Within a day of their arrival at Dunkirk Manor,...

Faye Longchamp and husband Joe Wolf Mantooth have founded an archaeological consulting firm, and a couple who own an historic home in St. Augustine, Florida, provide the firm's first big project. Within a day of their arrival at Dunkirk Manor, a lovely young employee disappears, leaving behind a smear of blood in her car and a collection of priceless arti-facts. Two days later, the missing woman's boyfriend is found dead, his throat slashed. T...

Top Hat" is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes. Offers a detailed analysis of one of Hollywood's greatest musicals, including a comprehensive survey of the film's production, promotion and reception, all measured against the background of 1930s socio-political contexts in the USAExplores the musical genre...

Faye Longchamp&rsquo, s new archaeological firm has landed a project in St. Augustine, Florida. , In four centuries, America&rsquo, s oldest city has accumulated skeletons that should probably stay buried. , Within a day of Faye&rsquo, s arrival, a woman disappears, leaving behind blood, priceless artifacts, and a note asking for Faye's help. , The detective hires Faye to find the artifacts&rsquo, origin. But the ghosts of the Anci...

Simone de Beauvoir continues to dominate twentieth century feminist theory, yet her work is the focus of inflamed debate amongst theorists of feminism. This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Mary Evans shows how de Beauvoir's writings resist simplistic interpretations and cannot be reduced to simple oppositions between masculine and feminine, rational and irrationa...

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of H. G. Wells's famous novel about a Martian invasion. To celebrate, we are reissuing our adaptation of this sci-fi classic with brand-new cover art.

Mary J. Evans presents a passage-by-passage commentary on the books of 1 and 2 Samuel, focusing on struggles for identity and power that consume Israel during its transition from a tribal confederacy to established monarchy.

Faye Longchamp has lost nearly everything except for her quick mind and her ancestral home, Joyeuse, a plantation on the Florida coast. When digging for artifacts on her property, she uncovers a woman's shattered skull--and a past that could destroy her future.