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(0)Michael Walsh
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"Michael Walsh examines Lloyd Webber's personal motivations and professional methods and recounts his enduring influence on the development of the popular musical." "Walsh covers the famous shows as well as Lloyd Webber's lesser-known works, such as Requiem and Jeeves, his only outright flop, which, nevertheless, in 1996 was revived successfully both in England and the United States as By Jeeves. This updated and enlarged version of the book takes...
4) Graffito
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This powerful book delivers a raw, in-your-face account of this complex and controversial subject. It contains nearly 200 photographs, and quotes from over fifty interviews regarding both sides of the issue, and dispels many of the media-generated myths concerning graffiti. In this moving, articulate, visual account, Michael Walsh presents to us an urban phenomenon begging to be understood.
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The great religious orders of Christianity--the Benedictines, the Dominicans, the Franciscans, the Jesuits--are well known for their monasteries, their learning, and their missions around the world. But in the Middle Ages and beyond, there was another kind of religious order whose profession it was to bear arms in defense of Christendom. This illustrated work tells the extraordinary story of the military orders of the Church. From their humble beginnings...
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"C.R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946) was one of the most important, colourful and talked about artists of his generation, in an era that included close friends Mark Gertler and Dora Carrington, and adversary Wyndham Lewis. In the turbulent days of pre-World War I London, Nevinson gained notoriety as England's only Futurist; but his celebrity and legacy to early twentieth-century art history was to be dependent on the war itself, during which he produced some...
7) The papacy
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Brings vividly to life the achievements and effects, historical and cultural, theological and geographical, of the See of Rome.
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"This book is a reference to those men and women of all denominations who have, over the last two millenia, contributed to the life, history and study of Christianity in all its facets, or in whose lives Christianity has been a significant factor. Entries are concise and accessible, although for key figures longer essays have been written. Its coverage ranges from major figures of the immediate post-New Testament era to those recently deceased, and...