Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural
Art and Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.
Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.
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The Captivity Narrative
Enduring Shackles and Emancipating Language of Subjectivity
These scholarly essays assess captivity, exploring how captives expressed psychological duress and coped with bondage. Offering historical, literary, and philosophical analyses, topics range from 17th-century captivity to 21st-century prisoner narratives.
These scholarly essays assess captivity, exploring how captives expressed psychological duress and coped with bondage. Offering historical, literary, and philosophical analyses, topics range from 17th-century captivity to 21st-century prisoner narratives.
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African American Religious Experiences
A Case Study of Twentieth Century Trends and Practices
Facing slavery, Jim Crow, and racism, African Americans relied on religion as their source of strength. This is a story of survival, demonstrating how religion became the key ingredient and ultimate weapon that allowed a race to adapt and endure.
Facing slavery, Jim Crow, and racism, African Americans relied on religion as their source of strength. This is a story of survival, demonstrating how religion became the key ingredient and ultimate weapon that allowed a race to adapt and endure.
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The Practice of Altruism
Caring and Religion in Global Perspective
Do people with religious commitment nurture altruistic action more than others? Social scientists present results of their empirical studies on Japanese, North American, European, Indian, and Thai societies to offer insightful reflections on this issue.
Do people with religious commitment nurture altruistic action more than others? Social scientists present results of their empirical studies on Japanese, North American, European, Indian, and Thai societies to offer insightful reflections on this issue.
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From One Shore to Another
Reflections on the Symbolism of the Bridge
Combining literary, social, and philosophical approaches, the essays in this book explore the theme of the bridge. Each piece defines the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people, or communities.
Combining literary, social, and philosophical approaches, the essays in this book explore the theme of the bridge. Each piece defines the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people, or communities.
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This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
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Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3
Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses medieval metaphysics and logic, exploring Aquinas on scientific knowledge, Ockham on mental language, and the antinomy between free will and determination in an attempt to reconcile human freedom with God's omniscience.
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses medieval metaphysics and logic, exploring Aquinas on scientific knowledge, Ockham on mental language, and the antinomy between free will and determination in an attempt to reconcile human freedom with God’s omniscience.
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Political repression sparks resistance, which in turn provokes counter-resistance. This anthology explores this volatile cycle, revealing how the struggle for freedom unexpectedly forges new cultural expressions and democratic possibilities.
Political repression sparks resistance, which in turn provokes counter-resistance. This anthology explores this volatile cycle, revealing how the struggle for freedom unexpectedly forges new cultural expressions and democratic possibilities.
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Liminal Spaces
The Double Art of Carol Shields
This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields. Arguing against enduring conceptions of Shields’s fiction as celebratory domestic miniaturism, the study presents her work as more expansive and equivocal than has sometimes been recognised, reading her texts as “liminal spaces” situated on a series of formal and thematic borders. Close attention is paid to Shields’s stylistic experimentation, to her subversions of auto/biography and historiography, and to the significance of her critical writing, while works which have previously received very little analysis, such as her early poetry…
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Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe
Day-to-Day History
This collection reveals the Jewish space as diverse forms of life in 19th and 20th century Eastern Europe. Scholars explore social life, leisure, and coexistence, showing how this world transformed while preserving its authenticity and individuality.
This collection reveals the Jewish space as diverse forms of life in 19th and 20th century Eastern Europe. Scholars explore social life, leisure, and coexistence, showing how this world transformed while preserving its authenticity and individuality.
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What is the link between creativity and madness? This collection of essays from psychiatrists, artists, and critics explores the question, discussing the work of artists from Robert Schumann and Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace.
What is the link between creativity and madness? This collection of essays from psychiatrists, artists, and critics explores the question, discussing the work of artists from Robert Schumann and Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace.
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This anthology explores hybridity in Spanish culture from Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The literary and visual texts studied blur fixed boundaries between genres, cultures, and languages. A hybrid itself, this collection points to the future.
This anthology explores hybridity in Spanish culture from Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The literary and visual texts studied blur fixed boundaries between genres, cultures, and languages. A hybrid itself, this collection points to the future.
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This practical guide to English phonetics and phonology offers tips to master its sounds and prosodic features. It makes a confounding subject accessible for students, serving as a helpful introductory text for understanding the workings of English.
This practical guide to English phonetics and phonology offers tips to master its sounds and prosodic features. It makes a confounding subject accessible for students, serving as a helpful introductory text for understanding the workings of English.
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How can we redesign siloed systems to support families at risk? This book offers key principles for a community and government approach to child wellbeing. It explores early intervention strategies and asks what it takes to build family-friendly communities that improve lives.
How can we redesign siloed systems to support families at risk? This book offers key principles for a community and government approach to child wellbeing. It explores early intervention strategies and asks what it takes to build family-friendly communities that improve lives.
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This book uses personal naming to challenge the narrative of cultural change in England after the Norman Conquest. It reveals that far from a single uniform culture, there existed complex, residual, and resistant regional cultures.
This book uses personal naming to challenge the narrative of cultural change in England after the Norman Conquest. It reveals that far from a single uniform culture, there existed complex, residual, and resistant regional cultures.
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Women Moving Forward
Volume One
These are the deeply moving narratives of women who uprooted themselves to seek a better life. United in their quest for a self-constructed future, they persevere and prevail. These are the stories of everyday heroes, a treasure that cannot be missed.
These are the deeply moving narratives of women who uprooted themselves to seek a better life. United in their quest for a self-constructed future, they persevere and prevail. These are the stories of everyday heroes, a treasure that cannot be missed.
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Transnational Worlds of Power Journal
Proliferation of Journalism & Professional Standards Vol. 1. No. 1 2015
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.
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Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets of modern-day Europe. His poetry is concerned with powerful imagery, the vulnerability of the body, memory, and identity. For the first time, Lerro’s verse is available in English.
Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets of modern-day Europe. His poetry is concerned with powerful imagery, the vulnerability of the body, memory, and identity. For the first time, Lerro’s verse is available in English.
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In an era of standardization, dialect and patois are marks of identity. No in-depth treatment has been offered as to the causes and consequences of language mixing from both linguistic and literary views. This book aims to fill this lack of analysis.
In an era of standardization, dialect and patois are marks of identity. No in-depth treatment has been offered as to the causes and consequences of language mixing from both linguistic and literary views. This book aims to fill this lack of analysis.
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Post/modern Dracula
From Victorian Themes to Postmodern Praxis
This collection explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker’s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola’s film, demonstrating how the century separating them binds more than it divides. These essays reveal why Dracula remains forever post/modern.
This collection explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker’s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola’s film, demonstrating how the century separating them binds more than it divides. These essays reveal why Dracula remains forever post/modern.
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