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Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kero...

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across ...

'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single pe...

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most famous album by the most famous band in the history of rock n roll. It became the soundtrack for t...

Everyone always seems to be talking about the end of the worldY2K, the Mayan apocalypse, blood moon prophecies, nuclear war, killer robots, you nam...

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at a...

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at a...

In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by con...

In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by con...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young wome...

Winston Churchill famously described the political alliance between the US and UK as a ''special relationship'', but throughout the cultural histor...