Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Is...

A preview of Roderick Cavaliero's forthcoming book 'Ottomania', due to be published on 30th April 2010. 'Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the...

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Ionia: A Quest

A preview of Freya Stark's 'Ionia: A Quest', published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks on 30th March 2010: When Freya Stark travelled along the western coast of Turkey in 1952 she met only one other to...

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A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

A preview of Freya Stark's 'A Winter in Arabia', published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks on 30th March 2010: Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alon...

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The Child in Film

An extract from Karen Lury's forthcoming book, 'The Child in Film', due to be published at the end of March 2010. About the book: Ghastly and ghostly children, 'dirty little white girls', the chil...

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Sir Robert Peel: The Life and Legacy

An extract from Richard A. Gaunt's forthcoming biography of Robert Peel, due to be published in June 2010. About the book: Sir Robert Peel - paragon or pariah? Peel was the greatest statesman and ...

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Travel Catalogue 2010

The first I.B.Tauris Travel Catalogue.

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Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television

An extract from 'Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television', edited by Douglas L. Howard: Based upon the successful Jeff Lindsay novel 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter', Showtime's and FX's 'Dexter' co...

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New Turkish Cinema

An extract from New Turkish Cinema: Belonging, Identity and Memory, by Asuman Suner. About the book: Providing a sharp and engaging analysis of the films by internationally acclaimed new wave Turk...

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The Cult TV Book

A sneak preview of The Cult TV Book, edited by Stacey Abbott, and published on 28 February 2010. With the phenomenal success of such programmes as 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Lost’, ‘Doctor Who’ ...

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Foreign Aid and Landmine Clearance: Governance,...

An extract from Foreign Aid and Landmine Clearance, by Mathew Bolton: In the decade since the signing of the Ottawa Treaty, which banned the production and use of anti-personnel mines, government...

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Strolling Through Istanbul

An extract from Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City, by Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freely About the book: This classic guide to Istanbul by Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freel...

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A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Question...

An extract from A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Questions for Old Beliefs, by Philip Kennedy: Philip Kennedy, here, offers the first book that any student - with or without religious convi...

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Twentieth-century Theologians: A New Introducti...

An extract from Twentieth-century Theologians: A New Introduction to Modern Christian Thought, by Philip Kennedy: One needs to be a lunatic to become a Christian, the 19th century Danish philosoph...

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Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion Under St...

An extract from the forthcoming Soviet Cinema, by Jamie Miller: When the Bolsheviks seized power in the Soviet Union during 1917, they were suffering from a substantial political legitimacy defici...

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New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Disco...

An extract from the forthcoming New Spaces of Exploration, edited by Simon Naylor and James Ryan: For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any bl...

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Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in ...

THE AGE OF THE DREAM PALACE Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain JEFFREY RICHARDS This edition published in 2010 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY ...

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Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Sup...

An extract from Jennifer Stuller's forthcoming book, Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors, published on 30 November 2009: From Wonder Woman to Buffy Summers, Emma Peel to Sydney Bristow, Cha...

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Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemp...

The first chapter from Horror Zone, edited by Ian Conrich. Horror Zone will be published on 30 November 2009: In his landmark Introduction to the American Horror Film, Robin Wood noted that horror...

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Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia ...

An extract from Empires at War from Francis Pike, published on 30 November 2009: The global balance of power has shifted. With 4 billion people, two-thirds of the world's population, a huge land-m...

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Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of America'...

An extract from Scott Ritter's book Iraq Confidential, new in paperback: As the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq peters out in failure, the historical debate is just beginning. How were we so mi...

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