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Modernism and Violence in England and IrelandAt the Violet Hour offers a richly historicized, trenchant look at the interlocking of literature with violence in British and Irish modernist texts....

A Modern Statistical Guide Using RHurricane Climatology explains how to analyze and model hurricane data to better understand and predict present and future hurricane activity...

The Evolution of SovereigntyHow do international norms evolve? This book focuses on the most important norm in the international system-the norm of sovereignty-and argues that the extent to which norms change depends on the outcome of military intervention. Jennifer M. Ramos develops and tests a counterintuitive theory of norm change within the...

The Life and Career of Rosemary ClooneyRosemary Clooney's 50-year career travelled a long road, from 50s novelty songs to timeless American jazz, combating personal strife and a drug-fueled mental breakdown along the way. Late Life Jazz tells the rise, fall and rise again story of America's finest girl singer....

Art Cinema and the Staging of GlobalizationThe Age of New Waves is a global and comparative study of new wave cinemas, from the French nouvelle vague eo films from Taiwan and mainland China in the late twentieth century, that focuses on the relationships among art cinema, youth, and cities during the era of globalization....

A Musical Life in Three ActsThe last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career which spanned six decades, and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals. Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three...