Catholic communities in Protestant states Robert Avery

Catholic communities in Protestant states Robert AveryThis study compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic, looking beyond the tales of persecution that have dominated traditional historiography, focusing on the realities of Catholic existence.

The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts – historical

Frost's book concentrates on the late-Victorian period and the early twentieth century

In addition to transcripts of the interviews

Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club are analysed alongside those of lesser-known works that range from the melodramas of Mexican cinema's golden age to Brazilian and Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s

A central theme is how knowledge causes new problems and explains growing inequality

Martin Patrick explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres

The End of the World and the Last God is a philosophical work that poses a disturbing existential question: what if mankind is definitively bored with Earth

It also considers the more anonymous role of commercial enterprises

any chronic stiffness or stress

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one of Britain’s most provocative new theater companies

and Luc Besson’s slickly stylised cinéma du look