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The Ladies' Paradise is a compelling story of ambition and love set against the backdrop of the spectacular rise of the department store in 1860s Paris. Now adapted for BBC Television and given a British setting in The Paradise, Zola's novel is a masterly portrayal of life in the bustling, gossipy world of the best department store in town....

The Changing Character of War unites scholars from the disciplines of history,        politics, law, and philosophy to ask in what ways the character of war today has        changed from war in the past, and how the wars of today differ from each other. It        discusses who fights, why they fight, and how they fight....

A Very Short IntroductionSuperconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today. Outlining the history of its discovery, and the race to understand its many mysterious phenomena, this     Very Short Introduction also explores the deep implications of the theory, and its potential to revolutionize the physics and technology...

Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities. In the        eighteenth century their power seemed better entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the        French revolutionaries made a determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely.          'Aristocracy' became the term for everything they were against, and the nobility...

Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin produced one of the world's first photographically illustrated science books....

The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of        political science, and it has been one of the most productive areas of        cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between        political science and other cognate disciplines. This Handbook provides...