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Grotesque Figures - Baudelaire, Rousseau, And The Aesthetics Of Modernity

by Virginia E. (Associate Professor Of French, Dartmouth College) Swain

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 Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo, and the presence of the grotesque in the modern.
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Writing History, Writing Trauma

by Dominick Lacapra

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 This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.
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Rethinking The Medieval Senses - Heritage / Fascinations / Frames

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 Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.
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Passions Of The Sign - Revolution And Language In Kant, Goethe, And Kleist

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 Traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist. This book examines the philosophical and literary reception of the French Revolution.
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Rethinking The Medieval Senses - Heritage / Fascinations / Frames

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 Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.
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Hypertext 3.0 - Critical Theory And New Media In An Era Of Globalization

by George P. (Brown University) Landow

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 Includes material on developing Internet-related technologies, considering in particular, their global reach and the social and political implications of this trend as viewed from a postcolonial perspective. The author also discusses blogs, interactive film, and the relation of hypermedia to games.
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Kantorowicz - Stories Of A Historian

by Alain Boureau

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Trauma - Explorations In Memory

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 Contributions by: Georges Bataille, Harold Bloom, Laura Brown, Cathy Caruth, Kai Erikson, Shoshana Felman, Henry Krystal, Claude Lanzmann, Dori Laub, Kevin Newmark, Onno van der Hart, and Bessel van der Kolk. Interviews with: Robert Jay Lifton, Gregg Bordowitz, Douglas Crimp, and Laura Pinsky
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What'S Wrong With Postmodernism? - Critical Theory And The Ends Of Philosophy

by Christopher Norris

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 A chapter on Stanley Fish brings several of these topics together and offers a generalized statement on the function of current criticism.
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Economics Of Natural Resources And The Environment

by David W. Pearce e R. Kerry Turner

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 It will be of value not only to students of natural resource economics, environmental economics, geography, and environmental sciences but to all with an interest in economic appraoches to environmental issues.
Perpetual Motion - Transforming Shapes In The Renaissance From Da Vinci To Montaigne

by Michel (Universite De Geneve) Jeanneret

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 More than fifty illustrations supplement his analysis.
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Silent Travelers - Germs, Genes And The Immigrant Menace

by Alan M. Kraut

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 This study traces the American tradition of the suspicion of immigrant populations spreading disease. From the cholera outbreak of the 1930s to the associations of Haitians and AIDS, the author shows how immigrant groups have been regularly slandered as carriers of particular diseases.
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Immunity

by William E. Paul

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 Packed with illustrations, stories, and narratives of scientific discovery, this book presents the three laws of the human immune system and explains how the system protects and harms us.
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New Orleans After The Civil War - Race, Politics, And A New Birth Of Freedom

by Justin A. (Loyola University) Nystrom

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 A study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans takes a different perspective, arguing that the politics of the era were less of a binary struggle over political supremacy and morality than they were about a quest for stability in a world rendered uncertain and unfamiliar by the collapse of slavery.
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Writings Of The Luddites

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 Named for their probably mythical leader, Ned Ludd, the Luddites were a group of social agitators in nineteenth-century Britain who tried to prevent the mechanization of cloth factories, which they blamed for increased unemployment. This book collects complete texts written by Luddites or Luddite sympathizers between 1811 and 1816.
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Stem The Tide - Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math Education In America

by David E. Drew

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 One study after another shows American students ranking behind their international counterparts in the STEM fields - science, technology, engineering, and math. What can be done to reverse this poor performance and to unleash America's wasted talent? The author has good news - and the tools America needs to keep competitive.
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Revolutionary Acts - Theater, Democracy, And The French Revolution

by Susan (University Of California, Berkeley) Maslan

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 Shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which Parisian audiences, actors and playwrights, and political authorities fought to shape the newly emerging democracy.
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Creation

by David Fergusson

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Finding And Seeking - Ethics As Theology

by Oliver O'Donovan

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Faith Seeking Understanding - An Introduction To Christian Theology

by Daniel L. Migliore

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Christians In South Indian Villages, 1959-2009 - Decline And Revival In Telangana

by Chilkuri Vasantha Rao e John Braisted Carman

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Christian Scholarship In The Twenty-First Century - Prospects And Perils

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A Physician'S Guide To Pain And Symptom Management In Cancer Patients

by Janet L. Abrahm

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 A guide to managing pain and other symptoms for people with cancer. Designed for busy practicing clinicians, It provides primary care physicians, advanced practice nurses, internists, and oncologists with detailed information and advice for alleviating the stress and pain of patients and family members alike.
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The Worlds Of Sholem Aleichem - The Remarkable Life And Afterlife Of The Man Who Created Tevye

by Jeremy Dauber

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