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The Origins of Tragedy and
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"...Rosen is a master..." (Oswald LeWinter)
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Netherworld by Robert Temple
"The next time someone asks your star sign, talk to them about lumps on the organs of cattle, or cracks in old tortoise carapaces..." (Ben Hawes)
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Microcosm by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse
'...an impressive and timely history of one of the continent's great cities...'(C.J. Schüler)
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Exquisite Mayhem by Theo Ehret
'...the crucial, and perhaps only, link to the extravagant, inexplicable, histrionic, and downright reptilian world of predominantly female flesh that was...Apartment Wrestling...' (Kim Hjelmgaard)
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Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller
'...Miller has a poet's ability to always choose exactly the right word or phrase...' (Michael Redman)
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Painted Shadow: A Life Of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones
'...The reader who is not an Eliot scholar will be left with the impression that Vivenne Eliot was a poor thing who took a good photograph...' (Amanda Jeremin Harris)
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All-American Ads of the 50s Edited by Jim Heimann
"...Ours is an age fully attuned to the manipulative and seductive ploys of advertisements. Or so we vehemently tell ourselves..." (Kim Hjelmgaard)
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Catullus in English edited by Julia Haig Gaisser
"...After centuries of neglect, Catullus' fame has burnt a slow fuse from the Fourteenth Century to the present day..." (Gregor Milne)
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Prince of Princes: The life of Potemkin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
"...his forensic eye and readable style place Montefiore among biography's top names..." (Michael Redman)
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Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia by Brendan Simms
"...designed to bring to light the mistakes of perception and understanding perpetrated not only by the British policy elite but also the popular press..." (Michael Redman)
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Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott
"...takes as its theme the issue of artistic identity and exile..." (Amanda Jeremin Harris)
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