Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700…

A study of human reproduction and social organization in preindustrial communities that reveals important similarities between Europe and Asia.This pioneering study reconceptualizes the impact of social organizations, economic conditions, and human agency on human reproduction in preindustrial communities in Europe and Asia. Unlike previous studies, in which Asia is measured by European standar…

V01CE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media

Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry. Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the human voice and the voice of the machine, between genuine and synthetic affect, b…

Magna carta; and, Edward III; one-act plays in one book. Illus. by the author

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Cr?billon fils. Biographie, bibliographie, pages choisies par Charles Simond

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The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life

How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books. Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self , Lee Humphreys offers a different view. She shows that sharing the mundan…

Division III of Heidegger's Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being

Leading philosophers and scholars speculate on what Heidegger's unfinished masterpiece might have said, why Heidegger didn't publish it, and what being actually means.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Influence of Baudelaire in France and England

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"Ask mamma", or, The richest commoner in England

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[2], viii, [4], 423 p., [32] leaves of plates : 23 cm,Title vignette, in colors

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"Plain or ringlets?"

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[2], x, [4], 398 p., [20] leaves of plates : 23 cm,Title vignette, in colors

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Plato and the nerd :the creative partnership of humans and technology

In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering -- creating technology -- as a deeply intel…