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  • Jack the Ripper & the London Press

    by L. Perry Curtis ...
    "Breaks new ground in its examination of the role of newspaper reporting during the police hunt for the first notorious serial killer."— Reviews in HistoryPress coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Singapore

    Unlikely Power

    by John Curtis Perry ...
    Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location and natural resources both allowed Singapore to profit from global commerce and also made the island an attractive conquest for the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Titus Andronicus

    by William Shakespeare, Professor Curtis Perry, Professor Ayanna Thompson ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series
    The bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeare's plays, this revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and cannibalism.Acts of war and sexual violence across borders and within families highlight the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, alongside the familial and literal blood which characterise early modern and contemporary performance.The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Titus ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Flight Of The Romanovs

    A Family Saga

    by John Curtis Perry, Constantine V Pleshakov ...
    A saga of love and lust, personal tensions and rivalries, antagonisms and hatreds, The Flight of the Romanovs describes the last century of the Russian imperial dynasty, the Romanovs, from the youth of the future tsar Alexander III in the 1860s until the death in 1960 of his daughter, Olga Alexandrovna, the last grand duchess. John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov use a wealth of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy

    by Curtis Perry ...
    Shakespeare's tragic characters have often been seen as forerunners of modern personhood. It has been assumed that Shakespeare was able to invent such lifelike figures in part because of his freedom from the restrictions of classical form. Curtis Perry instead argues that characters such as Hamlet and King Lear have seemed modern to us in part because they are so robustly connected to the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

    Edited by Curtis Perry, John Watkins ...
    Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity. Shakespeare provides them with the perfect focus, since his works turn back to the Middle Ages as decisively as they anticipate the modern world: almost all of the histories depict events during the Hundred Years War, and King John glances even further ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

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  • The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine

    by Kathleen Raine ...
    In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine drew from six decades of poetry to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. The result was this definitive edition, now published by Faber & Faber, which on first release in 2001 was welcomed both by Raine's admirers and by those newly discovering a poet who has unfailingly given voice to a vision of life in which the ... Read more

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  • Queen Victoria's Matchmaking

    The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

    by Deborah Cadbury ...
    A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over thirty, and to maintain and increase British royal power, she was determined to maneuver them into a series of dynastic marriages with the royal houses of Europe.Yet for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • A Criminal History of Mankind

    by Colin Wilson ...
    This "immensely stimulating story of true crime down the ages" tells the history of human violence, from Peking Man to the Mafia ( The Times, London).This landmark work offers a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence. Its sweep is broad, its research meticulous and detailed. Colin Wilson explores the bloodthirsty sadism of the ancient Assyrians and the mass ... Read more

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  • The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

    by Candace Fleming ...
    In this “superb history” (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning author Candace Fleming tells the extraordinary true story of Russia’s last royal family—and transports readers back to a time when both a bloodline and an empire came tumbling down.“Has all the elements of a fictional thriller . . . woven into a fascinating work of history.”— The Washington PostWINNER: Los Angeles Times Book Prize ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Twelfth Night

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of critical debate surrounding gender and sexuality. The Introduction explores the multiple factors that make up the play's rich textual, theatrical, critical and cultural history. Keir Elam surveys the play ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Inventing the World

    Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization

    by Meredith Small ...
    An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity.How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique ... Read more

    $13.99 USD