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Practising Colonial Medicine
$135.00The role of the Colonial Medical Service – the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories – goes to the heart of the British Colonial project. “Practising Colonial Medicine”…
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Quality TV
$130.00In his seminal book “Television’s Second Golden Age”, Robert Thompson described quality TV as ‘best defined by what it is not’: ‘it is not “regular” TV’. Audacious maybe, but his…
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Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
$16.95Nine-year-old Ling is very comfortable in her life; her parents are both dedicated surgeons in the best hospital in Wuhan. But when Comrade Li, one of Mao’s political officers, moves…
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Science Fiction in India
$115.00Indian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen making a mark for itself on the global scene. Dalit speculative fiction writer and editor Mimi Mondal is…
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Seeing the Elephant
$16.00Young Izzie wishes he could join the Union Army with his brothers, Ario and Cal. He wonders what it would be like to “see the elephant”—soldier talk for going into…
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Shakespeare: The Sonnets
$95.00The appearance in 1609 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is cloaked in mystery and controversy, while the poems themselves are masterpieces of silence and deception. The intervening 4 centuries have done little…
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Shaping the Surface
$115.00Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration.Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first identified as…
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Soviet Theatre during the Thaw
$110.00The era known as the Thaw (1953-64) was a crucial period in the history of the Soviet Union. It was a time when the legacy of Stalin unravelled, when brief…
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Students for a Democratic Society
$22.00The History of SDS as You’ve Never Seen It BeforeIn 1962 at a United Auto Workers’ camp in Michigan, Students for a Democratic Society held its historic convention and prepared…
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Tanzania’s Land Rush
$115.00After the global financial crisis of 2008, a new trend in foreign direct investments (FDI) emerged: investors’ rising interest in farmland in developing nations. This ‘land rush’ was a marker…
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Teen, Inc.
$16.95Legally, a corporation is a person, so why shouldn’t they be able to adopt a child? Fourteen year old Jaiden’s family is a corporation and his home is an office…
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Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC
$95.00As a spokesman for a country, a continent and the developing world, Thabo Mbeki plays a crucial role in world politics, but to many people he is an enigma. Is…
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