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Treachery : Betrayals, Blunders, And Cover-ups : Six Decades Of Espionage Against America And Great Britain
The Science Of James Bond : From Bullets To Bowler Hats To Boat Jumps, The Real Technology Behind 007’s Fabulous Films
The State Of The Novel : Britain And Beyond

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Dominic HeadPublication Details
BookWiley-Blackwell2008Description
Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contemporary British novel written by an expert in the field. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR881 .H435 2008 AVAILABLE
Entertaining Television : The BBC And Popular Television Culture In The 1950s

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Su HolmesPublication Details
BookManchester University Press2008Description
Drawing on extensive archival research, this book explores what can be termed case studies in popular program culture on 1950’s British television, with a particular focus on the BBC. Histories of 1950s British television have perpetuated the assumption that BBC television in this period was staid, elitist and paternalistic, while the competition from commercial television (ITV) was populist and appealing - capturing the increasingly mass audience for the medium and subsequently forcing the BBC to ‘catch up’. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1992.63 .H67 2008 AVAILABLE
Modernism : A Sourcebook

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edited by Steven MatthewsPublication Details
BookPalgrave Macmillan2008Links
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This Sourcebook provides a substantial anthology of documents for contextualising texts from the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR1148 .M38 2008 AVAILABLE
Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924

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Damon FrankePublication Details
BookOhio State University Press2008Links
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In Modernist Heresies, Damon Franke presents the discourse of heresy as central to the intellectual history of the origins of British modernism. The book examines heretical discourses from literature and culture of the fin de si (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR478.M6 F73 2008 AVAILABLE
The Seven Lives Of Colonel Patterson : How An Irish Lion Hunter Led The Jewish Legion To Victory

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Denis Brian ; with an afterword by Alan PattersonPublication Details
Book1st edSyracuse University Press2008Description
In this biography of Colonel John Henry Patterson, Denis Brian reveals his subject to be a composite of diverse identities. An Irish-born soldier, lion hunter, bridge builder, East African game warden, author, man-about-town, and Zionist, Patterson’s life is a fascinating story, and Brian’s well-researched account gives a revealing look into the ebb and flow of circumstances that produced such a colorful character. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CT788.P375 B75 2008 AVAILABLE
Ireland : The Politics Of Enmity, 1789-2006

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Paul BewPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2007Description
Britain’s failure to achieve this objective, dramatised by the horrifying tragedy of the Irish famine of 1846-50, in which a million Irish died, set the context for the emergence of a popular mass nationalism, expressed in the Fenian, Parnell, and Sinn Fein movements, which eventually expelled Britain from the greater part of the island. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DA47.9.I73 B49 2007 AVAILABLE
The Origin Of The Welfare State In England And Germany, 1850-1914 : Social Policies Compared

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E.P. HennockPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2007Links
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Peter Hennock analyses policies on social security and the public provision of medical care, dealing with public poor relief, industrial injury, with sickness, invalidity and old age, and with unemployment. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) JC479 .H46 2007 AVAILABLE
Gandhi & Churchill : The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed An Empire And Forged Our Age

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Arthur HermanPublication Details
BookBantam Books2008Links
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In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire. His campaigns of nonviolence in defiance of Churchill and the British, including his famous Salt March, would become the blueprint not only for the independence of India but for the civil rights movement in the U.S. and struggles for freedom across the world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DA47.9.I4 H47 2008 AVAILABLE
The Scarlet Stockings : The Enchanted Riddle

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Charlotte KandelPublication Details
Book1st edDutton Children’s Books2007Links
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When a book containing a tantalizing riddle and a magical pair of stockings arrive, her dreams of glory and fame are suddenly within her grasp. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 K162s AVAILABLE
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