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Queen of the PostmodsDubbed the "e;White Queen of Soul,"e; singer Dusty Springfield became the first British soloist to break into the U.S. Top Ten music charts with her 1964 hit "e;I Only Want To Be With You"e;--a pop classic followed by many others, including "e;You Don&'t Have to Say You Love Me"e; and "e;Son of a...

A Very Short IntroductionFirst published as part of the best-selling  The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's    Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and of conflict in modern Britain since the First World War....

An imaginative, engaging, and short biography of Paul. Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's disciplined imagination, nourished by a lifetime of research, shapes numerous textual, historical, and archaeological details into a colourful and enjoyable story of which Paul is the flawed but undefeated hero. Paul's travels and mission are put into a plausible...

The King James Bible and the English LanguageThe King James Bible has contributed more to English than any other source. In        this enlightening book David Crystal asks why. He looks at how its words have been        given new life by poets, playwrights, novelists, politicians, journalists,        advertisers, film-makers, hip-hop artists, and...

This is a POD only reprint of a 2002 philosophy monograph, which discusses themes related to motivation and human action....

A century after her sinking, social historian John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the passegers aboard the doomed liner, including a minute-by-minute account of the ship's last tragic hours....