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The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of ...

In "Modern Witchcraft's Call to Old World Magic: The Power of Ancient Practices in the 21st Century" by Lilith Silverwind, readers are invited on a transformative journey that bridges the mystical ...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. THE HISTORICAL CONTINUUM OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE -- II. THE MISSIONARY LINGUISTS OF NEW FRANCE -- III. THE GRAMMATICAL TRAINING OF THE JESUIT MISSION...

This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the 'monstrous feminine' has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters ...

This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive account of literary responses to the modernist crisis in Christ...

This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who nursed them. Distinguished from previous historical ...

Agents, Discourses and Practices of Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism in the Modern Age

Die New York University besitzt mit der Abby Weed Grey Collection eine weltweit einzigartige Sammlung an Kunstwerken des Modernismus aus dem Iran, der Türkei und Indien. Das Buch zeigt mit Gemälden...

Studierende der Germanistik, aber auch interessierte Nichtfachleute können mit diesem Lesebuch einen ersten Einblick in die deutsche Literatur des Hochmittelalters (ca. 1150-1350) gewinnen. Neben b...

Die Imitation von Weichheit ist zentraler Gegenstand der italienischen Malerei und Kunstkritik des Cinquecento. Ob Haare oder Fleisch: Erscheint etwas weich, so wirkt es lebendig. Beeinflusst wird ...

Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard, at Harvard University.

Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) have attracted a large amount of interest in research laboratories worldwide in recent decades, motivated by the gap between a growing interest in developing novel mix...

The orthogonal city plan was adopted in the mid-fifth century BCE and implies a democratic constitution. Almost entirely excavated, Morgantina's large agora offers a detailed picture of the civic a...

Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies

This book offers the latest research results in recent development on the principles, techniques and applications in mobile crowdsourcing. It presents state-of-the-art content and provides an in-de...