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The comedy of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife was written, or at least begun, merely to entertain the members of the "Society of Rabelaisian Studies" at one of their meetings. But it succeeded so well that it was at once taken up by a regular theatre, the Porte-Saint-Martin, in the spring of 1912, and again at the Theatre de la Renaissance in the autumn. Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was...

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In this book Maurice Bloch synthesises a radical theory of religion.

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New critical study of Ibsen's A Doll's House which looks at texts and performances.

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In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincib...

There is a vampire war brewing in the underworld and at the center of it all is Damali Richards, Spoken Word artist and Vampire Huntress. But she is not just any Vampire Huntress, she is the millennium Neteru.

This is the first comprehensive study for nearly 200 years of what remains of the writings of the Presocratic philosopher Philolaus of Croton (c. 470 385 BC). These fragments are crucial to our understanding of one of the most influential schools of ancient philosophy, the Pythagoreans, they also show close ties with the main lines of development of Presocratic thought, and represent a significant response to thinkers such as Parmenides and An...

Why did congressional Republicans obsessively pursue the impeachment of President Bill Clinton when the 1998 midterm elections and public opinion polls suggested that the majority of Americans opposed it? Some claimed indignation over perjury, others outrage over immorality. But as Nicol Rae and Colton Campbell show, the driving force behind the impeachment was nothingless than the intensifying partisanship of American politics. "Impeaching Cl...

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A concise overview of knowledge of seagrasses, complemented by extensive literature references to guide the reader to more detailed studies.

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