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My Own Portrait in Writing” Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van …
This volume builds on Grant’s earlier analysis of Van Gogh’s correspondence, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: A Critical Study (AU Press, 2014), a study in which he approached the letters from a literary critical standpoint, delving into key patterns of metaphors and concepts. In the present volume, he provides instead a literary theoretical analysis of the letters, one that draws them more…
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- 9781771990455.01
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- Cultural Dialectics
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- 220 pages
The Medium Is the Monster Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Disco…
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and its adaptations in Cana…
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- 9781771992244.01
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- 6 x 9, 248 pages
Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes: Proceedings …
These proceedings summarize the best papers in each research area represented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the German Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft, held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) from February 26-28. The meeting featured more than 160 presentations and 30 posters reflecting the diversity of subject matter in the field of human and industrial engineering.
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- 978-3-662-48661-0
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- IX, 475
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- 658.3 ADV a
Advances in Enterprise Engineering IX: 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Con…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2015, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during May 15–19, 2015. EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises face in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share a belief that dealing with these challenges requires rigorous and scientific s…
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- 978-3-319-19297-0
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- XV, 161
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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- 650 ADV a
Advances in Engineering Education in the Middle East and North Africa: Curren…
This book provides a collection of the latest advances in engineering education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and sheds insights for future development. It is one of the first books to address the lack of comprehensive literature on undergraduate engineering curricula, and stimulates intellectual and critical discourse on the next wave of engineering innovation and education…
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- 978-3-319-15323-0
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- XXVI, 454
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- 507 ADV a
Advances in Electrodermal Activity Processing with Applications for Mental He…
This book explores Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) dynamics as investigated through Electrodermal Activity (EDA) processing. It presents groundbreaking research in the technical field of biomedical engineering, especially biomedical signal processing, as well as clinical fields of psychometrics, affective computing, and psychological assessment. This volume describes some of the most complete, e…
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- 978-3-319-46705-4
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- XVIII, 138
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- 660.6 GRE a
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh A Critical Study
As Grant demonstrates, quite apart from furnishing a highly revealing self-portrait of their author, the letters are compelling for their imaginative and expressive power, as well as for the perceptive commentary they offer on universal human themes. Through a subtle exploration of van Gogh’s contrastive style of thinking and his fascination with the notion of imperfection, Grant illuminates …
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- 9781927356746.01
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- Cultural Dialectics
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- 254 pages
Limnoperna Fortunei: The Ecology, Distribution and Control of a Swiftly Sprea…
This book summarizes all currently available information on the ecology, environmental impacts and control methods of the golden mussel in industrial plants. The golden mussel was introduced in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South America between 1965 and 1990, swiftly spreading in freshwater waterbodies. In most areas invaded it has become the dominant macroinverebrate and a major fouling pest …
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- 978-3-319-13494-9
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Advances in Efficiency and Productivity
This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers were commissioned from leading researchers in the field, and include eight explorations into the analytical foundations of efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on modeling advances include reverse directional distance function, a new method for estimating technologic…
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- 978-3-319-48461-7
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- VI, 415
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- International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
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- 658.43 ADV a
Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery Case Atlas: Adult Deformity • T…
Consisting of case studies contributed by both domestic and international leaders in the field, this is an invaluable resource for all orthopedic surgeons and researchers and practitioners of limb lengthening, deformity correction and the Ilizarov method. Comprehensive yet accessible, this volume covers injuries to the upper extremity, adult deformity correction and bone tumors, from humeral le…
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