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Culture and sacrifice: ritual death in literature and opera
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ISBN: 9780521867337 0521867339 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press,

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Human sacrifice has fascinated Western writers since the beginnings of European literature. It is prominent in Greek epic and tragedy, and returned to haunt writers after the discovery of the Aztec mass sacrifices. It has been treated by some of the greatest creative geniuses, including Shakespeare and Wagner, and was a major topic in the works of many Modernists, such as D. H. Lawrence and Stravinsky. In literature, human sacrifice is often used to express a writer's reaction to the residue of barbarism in his own culture. The meaning attached to the theme therefore changes profoundly from one period to another, yet it remains as timely an image of cultural collapse as it did over two thousand years ago. Drawing on sources from literature and music, Derek Hughes examines the representation of human sacrifice in Western culture from the Iliad to the invasion of Iraq.

The politics of crime and community.
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ISBN: 9780333786963 0333786963 9780333786970 0333786971 Year: 2007 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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Gordon Hughes offers a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of the complex issues and debates in the politics of crime and community safety. Drawing on new research and evidence, the text adopts an original comparativist perspective to the understanding of the culture of contemporary society.

War on Terror, Inc. : corporate profiteering from the politics of fear
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ISBN: 9781844671236 1844671232 Year: 2007 Publisher: London ; New York : Verso,

The Dozen from Lakerim
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ISBN: 1281839426 9786611839420 142644589X Year: 2007 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] BiblioBazaar

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Kant's aesthetic epistemology : form and world
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ISBN: 0748652329 1281252085 9786611252083 0748629386 9780748629381 9781281252081 9780748652327 6611252088 0748621229 9780748621224 Year: 2007 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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A uniquely systematic study arguing that Kants account of aesthetic judgement is a necessary extension of his epistemological argument.


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The international canal monuments study : part of the global strategy for a balanced world heritage list.
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Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
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Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
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Stagecoach to tombstone : the filmgoers' guide to the great westerns
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ISBN: 9781845115715 9781845114985 1845115716 1845114981 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : I. B. Tauris,

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