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From 1896 to the present, there have been thousands of motion pictures featuring operas and opera singers. This encyclopaedia offers more than 1900 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of opera at the movies.

This text addresses the quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programmes, assessing several different quantitative methods of evaluation. It includes an overview of HIV prevention programmes in developing countries, economic analyses, case studies, and new methodologies.

This work contains ten chapters on rural society and agrarian issues, encompassing various disciplines, historical periods, and regions of the world. It examines such topics as poverty, subsistence, cultivation, ecology, justice, art, custom, law, ritual life, co-operation and state action.

This text presents the results of the a long-running and comprehensive study of forest fragmentation, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia. The study includes baseline data from before isolation from continuous forest took place.

This is a survey of China's wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It discusses in detail a wide range of art forms and techniques from porcelain and pottery to secular painting and sculpture.

A reading of the letters between Mozart and his father, placing them in the context of the stylized strategies of the 18th-century epistolary tradition. The book argues that the letters reveal a rebelliousness deep within Mozart's life and work.

Reinterprets key phases and figures in 20th-century art, focusing on the way artists and critics negotiate philosophically significant ideas. The text aims to illuminate a language of 20th century art that cuts across boundaries set out by such conventional notions as avant-garde and postmodernism.

Gender controversies - about knowing and learning, conversational style, partner violence, sexuality, leadership styles and pornography - provoke heated discussion. Eighteen controversies are explored in this work, with two opposing views presented on each subject.

A multifaceted response to issues concerning personal privacy and government power by writers, artists, and others

An analysis of the process of adjudication and the role of the US Supreme Court in interpreting the constitution. The author tackles questions about the role and function of public values in the elaboration of constitutional provisions, especially the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Research efforts have increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A database of slave trade voyages from Columbus' era to mid-nineteenth century is available on an open-access Web site. This text includes essays that draw on these data to explore fundamental questions about trade in African slaves.

A fresh look at the British Museum's celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand years

A fascinating look at the genesis and meaning of Van Gogh's famed paintings of his bedroom

A landmark survey of the work of Isaac Mizrahi, a trailblazing and influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur

A definitive new biography, deftly interweaving an account of Turner's early life with profound scholarly and aesthetic appreciation of his work