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Provides an analysis of the Obama administration's early diplomatic outreach to Iran and discusses the best way to move toward more positive relations between the two discordant states. This book uncovers the story of American and Iranian negotiations during Obama's early years as president, and the calculations behind the two nations' dealings.
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London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War. This title shows how the area's foreignness, liminality, and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century.
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A study of Michelangelo's extraordinary career, this title follows the artist from his apprenticeship in Ghirlandaio's workshop to his move to Rome in 1534, when, at the age of fifty-nine, he left behind his native Florence.
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The Internet is often hyped as a means to enhanced consumer power: a hypercustomized media world where individuals exercise unprecedented control over what they see and do. Drawing on research, including interviews with industry insiders, this book shows how advertisers have come to wield such power over individuals and media outlets.
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Offers a new paradigm for the periodization of the arts, one that counters a prevailing Italianate bias among historians of northern Europe of this era. The author connects Gothic architecture to related developments in painting and other media, and considers the consequences of the breakdown of the Gothic system in the early 16th century.
Author Video: Terry Eagleton discusses religion, academia and writing
Friday, 10 February 2012
Terry Eagleton is a British literary theorist and is regarded as one of Britain's most influential living literary critics. His books, which include On Evil, Why Marx Was Right, and the forthcoming The Event of Literature, are breathtakingly candid and refreshingly witty. Here he discusses his Irish Catholic upbringing, his views on religion, his academic training and his writing.
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Sharman Kadish speaks at the Institute of Jewish Studies, UCL
Monday, 27 February 2012
6.15pm, Institute of Jewish Studies, UCL, London
As part of the Institute of Jewish Studies' Spring programme of public lectures Dr Sharman Kadish (Director of Jewish Heritage UK) will be speaking about her book. The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland, published by Yale last year. Kadish sheds light on obscure and sometimes underappreciated architects who designed synagogues for all types of worshipers, examines the relationship between architectural style and minority identity in British society, and looks at design issues in the contemporary synagogue.
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Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 - Sunday, 13 May 2012
The Frick Collection, New York
This exhibition of nine iconic Impressionist paintings by Renoir offers the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format. The exhibition (accompanied by a stunning exhibition catalogue) explores Renoir's portraits and subject pictures of this type from the mid-1870s to mid-1880s. Intended for public display, these vertical grand-scale canvases are among the artist's most daring and are today considered masterpieces of Impressionism.
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New For Spring 2012
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A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics
Neil FaulknerRRP: £14.99 -
Herefordshire
Alan BrooksRRP: £35.00 -
The London Square
Todd Longstaffe-GowanRRP: £30.00 -
The Event of Literature
Terry EagletonRRP: £18.99 -
The Search for Immortality
James C.S. LinRRP: £45.00 -
Renaissance Gothic
Ethan Matt KavalerRRP: £45.00 -
Reading the Pre-raphaelites
Tim BarringerRRP: £18.99 -
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance
Emily BernardRRP: £22.50 -
Berthe Morisot
Marianne MathieuRRP: £30.00 -
This Will Have Been
Helen MolesworthRRP: £35.00 -
The Battle for the Arab Spring
Lin NoueihedRRP: £18.99 -
Libya
Alison PargeterRRP: £20.00 -
Strindberg
Sue PrideauxRRP: £25.00 -
Venice from the Water
Daniel SavoyRRP: £40.00 -
Turner Inspired
Ian WarrellRRP: £25.00
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