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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes-this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.
With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With...
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"From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America"--
For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. When they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers would reshape Europe and beyond. Their ingenuity, daring,...
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As a modernist woman writer, H.D. could best be described as an advocate of experimentation and change. F. S. Flint, an early representative member of the movement of Imagism, discusses the ideological core of this generation that does not endorse a single form but demonstrates "a free spirit". Flint's remarks reveal that the aim of this new generation is to discover new forms of artistic expression. His views match equally well with H.D.'s heretic...
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When Robert Thompson left Cambridge to join the Malayan Civil Service in 1938 the sun still shone on the British Empire for 24 hours a day. The outbreak of war in the Pacific found him in Hong Kong from which he was obliged to make a hurried and dramatic exit. From that point most of his working life was spent in military and political circles as one of the world's leading experts on counterinsurgency measures, on which subject he has written a number...
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¿Qué tienen en común el neurólogo Oliver Sacks, los problemas de la traducción, el escritor centroeuropeo Joseph Roth, la lectura en los transportes públicos, el poeta chileno Raúl Zurita, la ciencia ficción hispánica, la estación de Retiro y Diego Armando Maradona? Que han sido analizados por Marcelo Cohen. Además de ser uno de los grandes autores de ficción y traductores iberoamericanos, Cohen es un extraordinario narrador y pensador...
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The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British Empire. From Cyprus to Malaya, from Borneo to Suez, the dominoes began to fall within a decade of peace in Europe. Africa in the late 1940s and 1950s was energized by the grant of independence to India, and the emergence of a credible indigenous intellectual and political caste that was poised to inherit control from the waning European imperial powers. The British on the whole managed...
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Eurocentrism influences virtually all established historical writing. With the rise of Prussia and, by extension, Europe, eurocentrism became the dominant paradigm for world history.
Employing the approaches of Gramsci and Foucault, Peter Gran proposes a reconceptualization of world history. He challenges the traditional convention of relying on totalitarian or democratic functions of a particular state to explain and understand relationships of...
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The question of whether Sylvia Plath was a confessional poet or not, has dominated and been at the centre of most critical studies of her work, ever since the publication of her final collection of poems. In this book, I will try to do more than show how similar her poetry is to that of other confessional poets, like Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton.
To achieve this purpose, I will present a very brief comparison of "Daddy", one of...
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“France in Centrafrique” explores the pre-and post-colonial history of the Republic of Central Africa as well as giving the reader a taste of the country's involvement in WWII itself. The main focus of this volume is on Central Africa's independence and the rise to power of Jean Bedel Bokassa including the Focard network and Françafrique connections, France's military links with RCA (defense agreements), the republic's post-independence military,...
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La conquista de la actualidad no se expresa a través de grandes titulares sino en el desarrollo paciente y hasta azaroso de algunas ideas, que, lejos de toda celebridad, suelen reconocer como artífices a modestos y abnegados desconocidos. En esta historia laberíntica y casi secreta, Steven Johnson dirige su lupa hacia seis tópicos, El Vidrio, El Frío, El Sonido, La Limpieza, El Tiempo, La Luz, y analiza de qué modo fueron tratados a lo largo...
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This analysis attempts to present the theoretical discussions of Plath's poetry within the general context of feminist criticism and writing by women and the problems faced by women as authors and poets. The book deals with the representation of the female body in Plath's poetry, by examining the views of such critics as Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Simone de Beauvoir, and specifically, how the body is represented in particular poems, like "Tulips"...
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A fearless act of journalism in 1960s Nigeria and the true story behind the international bestselling novel The Dogs of War. The Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s was one of the first occasions when Western consciences were awakened and deeply affronted by the level of suffering and the scale of atrocity being played out in the African continent. This was thanks not just to advances in communication technology but to the courage and journalistic...
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El primer destino del veinteañero diplomático español Enrique Dupuy de Lme (Valencia, 1851-París, 1904) fue Japón, donde residió desde 1873 hasta el 1875, cuando el país asiático se abría al mundo occidental después de casi doscientos cincuenta años de aislamiento. El gobierno español encargó a Dupuy, junto a las habituales tareas diplomáticas, el estudio de la industria de la seda en Japón, dado que en aquellos años una epidemia que...
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This book will be dedicated to the examination of all the important manifestations of Plath's poetry: namely political, romantic, modernist, feminist and psychoanalytic, in order to move a step further away from traditional criticism and to prove that the personae Sylvia Plath created were nothing but masks, whose multiplicity are open to interpretation and this interpretation is left to the inclination of individual readers.
This poetry is so well...
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Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know it when I see it."
In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that tone is relational, belonging to shared experience...
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In recent decades, Heliodora has received greater attention since it contains H.D.'s translation and poetic expansion of four Sapphic fragments. Along with her investigation of the Sapphic and lyric poems, H.D. is gradually creating her own archive, the unpublished Notes on Euripides, Pausanias and Greek Lyric Poets. H.D. has produced a range of poems, translation exercises from the Greek Anthology and poems that work palimpsestically within the context...
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It is a sad and shaming but indisputable fact that the reception according to British soldiers on returning to civilian life has for centuries been little short of disgraceful, and even in this more enlightened age compares unfavourably with that of many other countries. In Homecoming Heroes Peter Reese ex-amines the lot of British veteran (often still quite a young man) on leaving the Armed Forces and assesses the chances of finding suitable employment...
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Euripides' Ion constitutes another demanding work in which H.D. processes and amplifies her task as poet and translator. This play signals a turning point in H.D.'s Euripidean studies since the text embeds a complex pattern of generic and mythic patterns which she infuses into the prose captions, that is, the preludes to the lyric and dramatic parts. In addition, it is her first work that receives critical attention following her first poetic period....
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En este libro se han recopilado y analizado un vasto número de creencias gracias a las cuales ha sido edificada la mitología de la modernidad, esas creencias sirven para describir, sostener e incluso defender, el desarrollo y el progreso de un tipo de sociedad concebido en Occidente desde épocas remotas. El análisis de los mitos de Occidente, aquí enumerados, nos permitirá entender la pertinencia y la profundidad de las críticas que se han...
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The Modernist quest for the renewal of poetry does not cease with World War Two. As Pound, Eliot, Williams and Crane conceive it, the new epic, provides the generic cradle for the inception of a new form. Hélène Aji summarizes certain theoretical precepts Pound received from Robert Browning's long poems. In his early Cantos, Pound adheres to Browning's dicta though later on his writing he begins to change as he starts questioning tradition and poetic...
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