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"e;Bloomsbury on the Mediterranean,"e; is how Vanessa Bell described France in a        letter to her sister, Virginia Woolf. Remarking on the vivifying effect of Cassis,        Woolf herself said, "e;I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim....          Complete heaven, I think it."e; Yet until now there has never...

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. But Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers,...

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A Very Short IntroductionConsciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', has now become a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? New developments in brain science are opening up debates on these issues, and now...

A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All TimeIn this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie.     By going back to the original archives, particularly the...

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