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Time and Narrative, Volume 1 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a... Læs mere
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Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the... Læs mere
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. This book reveals how in... Læs mere
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Enumerations: Data and Literary Study (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Piper shows how we can use data in digital humanities to learn more about the texts under consideration, making use of the surprising information that calculation and quantity can offer about words, how they’re used, and what the texts in which they’re found mean.
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The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Handle: A Parker Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speed-boats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast.
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Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments... Læs mere
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Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In a wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Illustrations.
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Nonsense on Stilts (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this fully revised second edition, noted skeptic Massimo Pigliucci sets out to separate the fact from the fantasy in an entertaining exploration of the nature of science, the... Læs mere
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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind – The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Separating hype from fact, this text investigates the fate of embodiment in an information age. It relates three issues:... Læs mere
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How Animals Grieve (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Scientists have long cautioned against attributing familiar emotions to animals, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. The author focuses... Læs mere
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