New edition of a classic reference work recognizes recent developments in... Læs mere
Drawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as the people he met during the years he spent among different illness groups, the author recounts a collection of illness stories.
Written in the sixteenth century, this book tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China's most famous religious heroes, and his four supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures.
Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the... Læs mere
A penetrating examination of how most Americans die today--how the patients and their families' conflicting desires about a "good death" collide with the politics and routines of American hospitals.
Examines the history of the mapping sciences in the twentieth century and their relationship to the history of territory
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.
"A version of chapter 5, "Your Proposal," appeared in the October 2000 issue of PMLA and appears here, with alterations, by permission of the Modern Language Association."
Jacqueline Bouvier was a twenty-year-old debutante from a wealthy East Coast family. Susan Sontag was... Læs mere
Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments... Læs mere