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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
During the nineteenth century, British theatre developed into an industry with considerable importance in the economy, diversified by whole new forms of entertainment - first music hall then cinema - evolving alongside the dramatic stage. This comprehensive study examines the theatre's growth from an economic perspective. Tracy Davis reflects the debates of economic theorists from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall to investigate three key areas: the state's role in protecting theatre; the factors affecting the success or failure of theatre companies; and how theatre came to be regarded as one of the 'service industries'. By grounding debates about subsidization and the economic viability of the live arts in an era predating government funding, Davis sheds light on the history of cultural policy for the arts in Britain. Her book will interest scholars across a range of disciplines - theatre, social history, economics, gender studies and the sociology of culture.
When five murders disturb his sleepy Burgundian city on Bastille night, Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Désiré Pel has his work cut out for him. A terrorist group is at work and with the President due to make an official visit in a few weeks’ time, the pressure is on to uncover them and stop them in their tracks. Meanwhile, Pel continues his courtship of the delightful Madame Faivre-Perret, and hopes one day to escape the tyranny of his TV-addicted landlady – but none of this distracts him from his goal of unmasking the murderers and stealing the would-be assassins’ power. Moody, sharp-tongued and worrying constantly about his health, Inspector Pel ensures that no case goes unsolved,...
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In response to Simon Morris's "Getting Inside Jack Kerouac's Head", I marathon retyped all of Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans on Friday, November 30, 2012. Typos were edited only if noticed during the performance. All conditions were at the mercy of the technology.
FROM RUSSIA, WITH... ? When Agent Gaby Bernard finally gets a chance to leave FBI headquarters for the field she is almost as excited by her intriguing partner as by the high profile assignment she has wrangled or the exotic murder mystery they are sent to solve. But the apparent killer is an assassin also sought by the Russian Mafia and the killing seems to be part of a decades-old international conspiracy of plunder and assassination dating back to the fall of the Soviet Union. The situation soon spirals out of control, leaving Gaby in big trouble with Washington and in far more serious trouble with the mob.
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