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Welsh poets knew the names of Irish heroes such as Cu Chulainn and        Deirdre and Irish narratives influenced the Welsh Mabinogion, yet the degree of        Irish influence has been debated for many years. This book is the first        comprehensive estimation of the extent to which Irish literature influenced medieval        Welsh literature....

Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is        also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a        population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an        insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights.In...

This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between 'Medieval' and 'Renaissance' poetics....

In 1915, when Alfred Wegener proposed his theory of continental drift (that the positions the earth's continents are in flux), American earth scientists considered it a highly radical, new vision of the earth. British scientists, on the other hand, viewed the theory as a pleasing confirmation of a long-suspected notion. This initial difference in...

The newest volume of the annual    Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century. The volume's contents examine the relationship between Jews and the Communist movement in Poland, Russia, America, Britain, France, the Islamic world, and...

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