An anthology, in facsimile, of 40 key documents in the prehistory and evolution of motion pictures. The texts include relevant extracts from such classic sources as Magiae Naturalis and Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae . Each document is introduced with an essay by one of the editors.

Part of the Hollywood Icons series that feature the most famous movie icons in the history of cinema, this 192-page photobook is a visual biography of Charlie Chaplin. It includes 150 portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography.

Greta Garbo's uniquely photogenic beauty belies her great talent as an actress, as her performances in Queen Christina and Camille prove. Part of the Movie Icon series that features the most famous personalities in the history of cinema, this title features Greta garbo.

The student guide to passing poetry and prose criticism in the AS and A Level English Literature exams. Leading Questions lends itself to a variety of teaching strategies such as group work, individual writing and coursework.

Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him immeasurable success, as well as intense controversy. This autobiography constructs the poor London childhood and his prodigious life in the movies.

Explores the dynamics of diversity and cohesion within neighbourhoods and to identify dimensions of disconnection between and within neighbourhoods. This book provides theoretically informed critiques of the policy responses of public, private, voluntary and community organisations and evidence about the dynamics of cohesion in UK neighbourhoods.

Many cemeteries contain 19th-century sculptures that present idealized images of women, elaborately posed and carefully sculpted. David Robinson's photographs capture the beauty and mystery of these sculptures. The foreword explores recurring themes such as the conflation of death and the erotic.

This book chronicles the rise to power of the student controlled Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray.

Takes a pragmatic, example based approach to unraveling the mysteries of AOP. This book helps to learn how to: use AOP to organize your code in a way that makes it easy to deal with the things you really care about in your verification environments.

The first full study of Wala history and society, which will be of interest to Africanists, Islamic studies specialists and historians of colonialism.

This book is the first comprehensive study of leisure in an African colonial city.

The Politics of Harmony analyses how traditional ruling elites in Swaziland, as in other parts of Africa, use harmony ideologies to downplay and resolve land disputes.

A detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante.

This book describes the participation of black people in the conduct of the war, and their subsequent exclusion from the fruits of peace.

Social and economic history of Mauritius of interest to scholars of slavery and plantation systems.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the country's political history over the past three decades.

This book analyses socio-economic change among the peasants and traders during the the Turkiyya period of Sudanese history.

An authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade.

A first full-length study of the political economy of the nineteenth-century Swazi state.

Success story highlighting role of peasant farmers in cotton revolution in Cote d'Ivoire.