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  • Hemispheres and Stratospheres

    The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment

    by Kevin L. Cope, Roger D. Lund, William Stargard, Bärbel Czennia, Brijraj Singh, Chandrava Chakravarty, Rachel Mann, Phyllis Thompson ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods. Through studies of landscape gardens, architecture, imaginary voyages, transcontinental philosophical ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England

    by Roger D. Lund ...
    Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, Roger D. Lund outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its unpredictable effects in works of philosophy, religious pamphlets, and legal writing and examines what happens when literary wit is deliberately ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Learning Across Sites

    New Tools, Infrastructures and Practices

    Edited by Andreas Lund, Ingvill Rasmussen, Roger Säljö, Sten Ludvigsen ...
    Series series New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction
    The ever evolving, technology-intensive nature of the twenty-first century workplace has caused an acceleration in the division of labour, whereby work practices are becoming highly specialised and learning and the communication of knowledge is in a constant state of flux. This poses a challenge for education and learning: as knowledge and expertise increasingly evolve, how can individuals be ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson

    Resisting Secularism

    by Melvyn New, Donald R. Wehrs, John A. Dussinger, Regina Janes, E. Derek Taylor, Robert G. Walker, Patrick Müller, Steven Scherwatzky, Katherine Kickel0, Nicholas Seager1, Geoff Newton2, Ryan J. Stark3, Brett C. McInelly4, Paul Tankard5, Deborah Heller6, Frans de Bruyn7, Roger D. Lund8, Nathalie Zimpfer9 ...
    Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

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    by William Wycherley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist.The Gentleman Dancing-Master, in contrast, disappointed contemporary audiences, but the central relationship between Hippolyta and Gerrard features an original and sympathetic study of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

    Ways of Telling the Self

    by Marina Warner ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Betty A. Schellenberg ...
    The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications at the height of the eighteenth century. Using personal correspondence, records of contemporary reception, research into contemporary print culture and sociological models of professionalisation, Betty A. ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • Statistics Hacks

    Tips & Tools for Measuring the World and Beating the Odds

    by Bruce Frey ...
    Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into Statistics Hacks. These cool tips, tricks, and mind-boggling solutions from the world of statistics, measurement, and research methods will not only ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Returning to John Donne

    by Achsah Guibbory ...
    Collected in this volume are Achsah Guibbory’s most important and frequently cited essays on Donne, which, taken together, present her distinctive and evolving vision of the poet. The book includes an original, substantive introduction as well as new essays on the Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, the Songs and Sonnets, and the subject of Donne and toleration. Over the course of her career, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Web Design Demystified

    by Wendy Willard ...
    This self-study guide provides a firm foundation in Web design through discussions of core concepts, hands-on exercises, chapter-ending quizzes. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Burley manuscript

    Edited by Peter Redford ...
    Series series The Manchester Spenser
    The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are provided for each of the other items, including those in foreign languages. The history and provenance of ... Read more

    $148.49 CAD

  • The Makerspace Workbench

    Tools, Technologies, and Techniques for Making

    by Adam Kemp ...
    Create a dynamic space for designing and building DIY electronic hardware, programming, and manufacturing projects. With this illustrated guide, you’ll learn the benefits of having a Makerspace—a shared space with a set of shared tools—that attracts fellow makers and gives you more resources to work with. You’ll find clear explanations of the tools, software, materials, and layout you need to get ... Read more

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