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  • The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity

    par Robert K. Merton, Elinor Barber ...
    From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural ... En savoir plus

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  • The Event of Literature

    par Terry Eagleton ...
    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Paideia Program

    par Mortimer J. Adler ...
    Paideia is a holistic approach to life-long learning with roots in ancient Greece.The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible. ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Studying English Literature

    A Practical Guide

    par Tory Young ...
    Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to write essays, Studying English Literature invites students to engage with the subject's history and theory whilst at the ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Historical Novel

    par Jerome de Groot ...
    Collections series The New Critical Idiom
    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including:the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age

    par Desmond MacHale ...
    This book, aimed at the general reader and now available again, is the first full-length biography of George Boole (1815–1864) who has been variously described as the founder of pure mathematics, one of the fathers of computer science and discoverer of symbolic logic. Boole is mostly remembered as a mathematician and logician whose work found application in computer science long after his death, ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Wisdom, Information and Wonder

    What is Knowledge For?

    par Mary Midgley ...
    In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for? Midgley rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in the high-tech world, and criticizes conceptions of philosophy that support this mode of thinking. ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method

    par Quentin Skinner ...
    The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Karl Pearson

    The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age

    par Theodore M. Porter ...
    Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new basis for relations between men and women. This biography recounts Pearson's extraordinary ... En savoir plus

    $60.49 CAD

  • Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

    par Allen MacDuffie ...
    Collections Livre 93 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680–1820

    par Robin Valenza ...
    The divide between the sciences and the humanities, which often seem to speak entirely different languages, has its roots in the way intellectual disciplines developed in the long eighteenth century. As various fields of study became defined and to some degree professionalized, their ways of communicating evolved into an increasingly specialist vocabulary. Chemists, physicists, philosophers, and ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present

    par Chris Baldick ...
    Collections series Longman Literature In English Series
    Presents a coherent and accessible historical account of the major phases of British and American Twentieth-century criticism, from 'decadent' aestheticism to feminist, decontsructonist and post-colonial theories. Special attention is given to new perspectives on Shakesperean criticism, theories of the novel and models of the literary canon. The book will help to define and account for the major ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD