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Poets' Meeting: George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with God
William J. McGill
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• Author(s): William J. McGill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General George Herbert (1593-1633) and R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), each a major English poet and an Anglican priest, lived in v...
View full detailsDeath of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
Donna Merwick
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• Author(s): Donna Merwick • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period"He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-c...
View full detailsHorrendous Evils and the Goodness of God
Marilyn McCord Adams
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• Author(s): Marilyn McCord Adams • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Good & EvilWhen confronted by horrendous evil, even the most pious believer may question not only life's worth but ...
View full detailsIn the New England Fashion: Reshaping Womens' Lives in the Nineteenth Century
Catherine E. Kelly
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• Author(s): Catherine E. Kelly • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralIn the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical trans...
View full detailsThe Developmental State: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages
Meredith Woo-Cumings
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• Author(s): Meredith Woo-Cumings • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDevelopmental state, n.: the government, motivated by desire for economic advancement,...
View full detailsSteelworker Alley: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht
Robert Bruno
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• Author(s): Robert Bruno • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsFor retired steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, the label "working class" fits comfortably. Questioning the widely held view th...
View full detailsOn the Front Line
Stephen J. Frenkel, Marek Korczynski, Karen A. Shire
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• Author(s): Stephen J. Frenkel | Marek Korczynski | Karen A. Shire • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Customer RelationsThe importance of customer service is widely emphasized in business today. This book offers the f...
View full detailsThe Marranos of Spain: From the Late 14th to the Early 16th Century According to Contemporary Hebrew Sources
B. Netanyahu
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• Author(s): B. Netanyahu • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - SpainB. Netanyahu, one of the world's foremost medievalists, has made a lifelong project of studying the historical ev...
View full detailsFighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Marc W. Steinberg
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• Author(s): Marc W. Steinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralA key component of social life, discourse mediates the processes of class formation and so...
View full detailsCauses of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict
Stephen Van Evera
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• Author(s): Stephen Van Evera • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWhat causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, Stephen Van Eve...
View full detailsThe Cuban Family: Custom and Change in an Era of Hardship
Rosemarie Skaine
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• Author(s): Rosemarie Skaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - General This work explores how relationships of blood, marriage, sex, and residence work in eac...
View full detailsMaking the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America
Penny Schine Gold
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• Author(s): Penny Schine Gold • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralThe Bible has played a critical role in the story of Judaism, modernity, and identity. Penny Schine Gold e...
View full detailsRacism and Philosophy
Susan E. Babbitt, Sue Campbell
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• Author(s): Susan E. Babbitt | Sue Campbell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Discrimination & Race RelationsBy definitively establishing that racism has broad implications for how t...
View full detailsEverything Happens in Chillicothe: A Summer in the Frontier League with Max McLeary, the One-Eyed Umpire
Mike Shannon
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• Author(s): Mike Shannon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports "One thing about Max was that he was about as well-adjusted to his disability, if you want to call it that, as anyone coul...
View full detailsCambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI
Rodney A. Brooks
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• Author(s): Rodney A. Brooks • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Expert SystemsUntil the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of percept...
View full detailsHitler and Nazi Germany
Frank McDonough
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• Author(s): Frank McDonough • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The twelve years, from 193...
View full detailsLina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera's Greatest Beauty, 1874-1944
Paul Fryer, Olga Usova
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• Author(s): Paul Fryer | Olga Usova • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Opera A prominent star in both pre-Revolutionary Russia and New York, Lina Cavalieri, described ...
View full detailsGoverning Academia: Who Is in Charge at the Modern University?
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
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• Author(s): Ronald G. Ehrenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherPublic concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colle...
View full detailsClio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany
Theodore Ziolkowski
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• Author(s): Theodore Ziolkowski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern"It is not sufficiently appreciated, I believe, how profoundly Clio, the muse of history, ...
View full detailsColonial Women: 23 Europeans Who Helped Build a Nation
Carole Chandler Waldrup
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• Author(s): Carole Chandler Waldrup • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women This is a book of biographies of 23 European women who were among the earliest arrivals in Colonial America. The...
View full detailsLanguage and Space
Paul Bloom, Merrill F. Garrett, Lynn Nadel
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• Author(s): Paul Bloom | Merrill F. Garrett | Lynn Nadel • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThe fifteen original contributions in Language and Space bring together the maj...
View full detailsMedicine and the American Revolution: How Diseases and Their Treatments Affected the Colonial Army
Oscar Reiss
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• Author(s): Oscar Reiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) Nearly nine times as many died from diseases during the American Revolution as di...
View full detailsConsent
Pamela Susan Haag
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• Author(s): Pamela Susan Haag • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyWhom, over the past two centuries, has society construed as sexual "victims"? Where and when did the ...
View full detailsThe Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse
Andre Green, Alan Sheridan
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• Author(s): Andre Green | Alan Sheridan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EmotionsA seminal work on one of the most neglected topics in psychoanalysis, that of affect. Originally published in French as Le Discours Vi...
View full detailsWrestling and Hypermasculinity
Patrice A. Oppliger
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• Author(s): Patrice A. Oppliger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture Professional wrestling revels in its exaggeration of masculinity. This hyper-masculinity is evident in the...
View full detailsControlling the Law
John Phillip Reid
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• Author(s): John Phillip Reid • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Legal HistoryIn today's courtroom, the jurors evaluate the evidence and pronounce the verdict while th...
View full detailsVirginia Woolf as Feminist
Naomi Black
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• Author(s): Naomi Black • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: FeministBefore the Second World War and long before the second wave of feminism, Virginia Woolf argued that women's experience, ...
View full detailsBeowulf, a Longman Cultural Edition
Anonymous, Sarah Anderson, Alan Sullivan
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• Author(s): Anonymous | Sarah Anderson | Alan Sullivan • Publisher: Pearson • Publisher Imprint: Pearson • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFrom Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Beowulf, edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Al...
View full detailsNarrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot
Harry E. Shaw
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• Author(s): Harry E. Shaw • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshNarrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British real...
View full detailsSports Medicine for Parents and Coaches
Daniel J. Boyle
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• Author(s): Daniel J. Boyle • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralFrom five-year-olds playing T-ball to teenagers showing off their inline skating skills, kids love ...
View full detailsAs I Was Saying, Volume 2: Cornelliana
Colin Rowe, Alexander Caragonne
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• Author(s): Colin Rowe | Alexander Caragonne • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralColin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of...
View full detailsAuthoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946 1970
Steven Heydemann
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• Author(s): Steven Heydemann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralFor almost forty years Syria has been ruled by a populist authoritarian regime under the Ba'th Party, ...
View full detailsThe Emergent Self
William Hasker
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• Author(s): William Hasker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyIn The Emergent Self, William Hasker joins one of the most heated debates in analytic philosophy, that over th...
View full detailsGuardians of the Moral Order
Mark Warren Bailey
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• Author(s): Mark Warren Bailey • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Legal HistoryProgress was the byword of America's Gilded Age, a time of technological innovation, ind...
View full detailsReport to JFK
Richard E. Neustadt
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• Author(s): Richard E. Neustadt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralIn March 1963, President Kennedy asked Richard E. Neustadt to investigate a troubling e...
View full detailsThe Age of Chaucer
Valerie Allen
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• Author(s): Valerie Allen • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. This book expl...
View full detailsTan Lejos de Dios = So Far from God
Ana Castillo
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• Author(s): Ana Castillo • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: Literary
Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography
Sharon Ouditt
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• Author(s): Sharon Ouditt • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Reference'They also serve who only stand and wait' The idea of there being a 'women's writing' during the First World War is often dismissed. The war, the s...
View full detailsEbony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era
Craig Gable
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• Author(s): Craig Gable • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)Ebony Rising is the first comprehensive, gender-balanced collection of short fiction f...
View full detailsThe Future of the Holocaust
Berel Lang
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• Author(s): Berel Lang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - HolocaustIn The Future of the Holocaust, Berel Lang continues his inquiry into the causal mechanisms of d...
View full detailsWomen's Writing: Past and Present
Caroline Zilboorg
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• Author(s): Caroline Zilboorg • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Focusing o...
View full detailsShifting Landmarks: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000
Jeffrey A. Bowman
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• Author(s): Jeffrey A. Bowman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn a major contribution to the debate among medievalists about the nature of social and political change ...
View full detailsThe Big Book of Concepts
Gregory Murphy
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• Author(s): Gregory Murphy • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionConcepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our ...
View full detailsSemantics, Tense, and Time: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language
Peter Ludlow
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• Author(s): Peter Ludlow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAccording to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can g...
View full detailsHume, Holism, and Miracles: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970
David Johnson
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• Author(s): David Johnson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyDavid Johnson seeks to overthrow one of the widely accepted tenets of Anglo-American philosophy--that of the success...
View full detailsThe Curtain Rises: Oral Histories of the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
Susan G. Shapiro, Ronald Shapiro
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• Author(s): Susan G. Shapiro | Ronald Shapiro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Much has been written about how the authoritarianism of the Communist era gave way to more o...
View full detailsMinor Histories: Statements, Conversations, Proposals
Mike Kelley, John C. Welchman
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• Author(s): Mike Kelley | John C. Welchman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThe second volume of writings by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, focusing on his own work.What John C. Welchman calls...
View full detailsWonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe
Mary Baine Campbell
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• Author(s): Mary Baine Campbell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralDuring the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new world...
View full detailsConsumer Society in American History: A Reader
Lawrence B. Glickman
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• Author(s): Lawrence B. Glickman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralConsumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European ex...
View full detailsHow Our Lives Become Stories
Paul John Eakin
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• Author(s): Paul John Eakin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Books & ReadingThe popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Kathryn ...
View full detailsDoing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945
Michael S. Shull, David E. Wilt
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• Author(s): Michael S. Shull | David E. Wilt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The golden age of animation stretched from the early 1930s to the mid-1950s, w...
View full detailsYoung Babe Ruth: His Early Life and Baseball Career from the Memoirs of a Xaverian Brother
Brother Gilbert
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• Author(s): Brother Gilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This work contains the heretofore unpublished memoirs of Brother Gilbert (a.k.a. Philip F. Cairnes), the Xaverian broth...
View full detailsMallarmé: The Poet and His Circle
Rosemary H. Lloyd
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• Author(s): Rosemary H. Lloyd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryUpon his death in 1898, the French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarm� (b. 1842) left behind a body of published work w...
View full detailsMonitoring the News: The Brilliant Launch and Sudden Collapse of the Monitor Channel: The Brilliant Launch and Sudden Collapse of the Monitor Channel
Susan Bridge
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• Author(s): Susan Bridge • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesIn her colorful insider's account, Susan Bridge analyzes the bitter struggle that ensued when a sophisticated entrepreneurial leadership tried t...
View full detailsFounding the Criminal Law
Ronald Pestritto
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• Author(s): Ronald Pestritto • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralWhy does society punish criminals? What political principles underlie the determi...
View full detailsSolutions Manual for Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Markets
Jaksa Cvitanic, Fernando Zapatero
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• Author(s): Jaksa Cvitanic | Fernando Zapatero • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralSolutions manual for an innovative textbook accessible not only to graduate students in mathematical finance and finan...
View full detailsQuintet: Five Journeys Toward Musical Fulfillment
David Blum
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• Author(s): David Blum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Composers & Musicians - GeneralQuintet presents compelling portraits of five artists known and loved by aficionados of classi...
View full detailsCollecting Western Memorabilia
Tim Lasiuta
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• Author(s): Tim Lasiuta • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - General The perfect guide for all collectors of Western film, television, radio and comics mem...
View full detailsLogic Programming: Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Logic Programming
Danny de Schreye
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• Author(s): Danny de Schreye • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralIncludes tutorials, lectures, and refereed papers on all aspects of logic programming, including theoretical foundations...
View full detailsAesthetic Relation
Gerard Genette, Geoffrey M. Goshgarian
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• Author(s): Gerard Genette | Geoffrey M. Goshgarian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AestheticsOne of the best-known continental theorists writing today, G�rard Genette here explores ou...
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