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Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age
Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age is an unprecedented collection that examines marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to the category of the pseudoscientific, fields like mesmerism and psychical research captured the imagination of the Vi…
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Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and th…
This book presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. James V. Morrison considers the historical context as well as the “triggers” (such as the 1609 Bermuda shipwreck) that inspired some of these works, and modern responses such as novels (Gol…
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Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and th…
This book presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. James V. Morrison considers the historical context as well as the “triggers” (such as the 1609 Bermuda shipwreck) that inspired some of these works, and modern responses such as novels (Gol…
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Predicting the Past: The Paradoxes of American Literary History
Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden resists the utopian impulse to offer supposedly definitive solutions for the legitimation crises b…
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Irregular Unions : Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Que…
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Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: Architects for Pervasive Computing
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Algorithms for Efficient Computation of Convolution
Algorithms for Efficient Computation of Convolution
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Stardesigner oder Gestalter des Alltäglichen Designrezeption in der Aufmer…
Wie »entstehen« Stars und Designklassiker im Feld des Designs? Markus Köck befasst sich erstmals mit der Prominenz im Feld des Designs für den deutschsprachigen Raum und bietet einen Einblick in 13 Publikationen über einen Zeitraum von nahezu sechs Jahrzehnten sowie in seine Arbeit mit raren Quelltexten aus Finnland, Japan und den USA.
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The Petroleum Manga a Project
The Petroleum Manga, first conceived of and rendered as 10-foot banners printed on Tyvek for gallery installation is now reproduced in book form. Originally, manga was used in Japanese to refer to whimsical drawings or picture books.
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Book Title: Bridge the Distance: An Oral History of COVID-19 in Poems
During the early days of quarantine, many teachers turned to poetry to process their experiences. Teacher-Poets Writing to Bridge the Distance: An Oral History of COVID-19 preserves this poetry and teachers' experiences as they navigated a new reality in education.
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