Science Literacy – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 9

Maria Farland
Degraded Heartland

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception?What happens when rural America--long romanticized in pastoral lite…

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Edward Watts
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Ray Nayler
Where the Axe is Buried

All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.Nebula Award, Ray Bradbury Prize and Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist and Hugo and Locus Award winner Ray Nayler returns with a gripping technologica…

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Maris Kreizman
I Want to Burn This Place Down

A TIMEMust-Read of 2025A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman---an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former "good Democra…

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Tom Lin
Babylon, South Dakota

From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsucomes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a p…

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Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed

S. F. Masterworks

The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant phy…

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Sheneese Thompson
Oshun, Lemonade, and Intertextuality

Analyzing works of film and literature by writers and artists from Beyoncé to Ntozake Shange, this book explores how Afro-Atlantic religion intersects with themes of resilience in Black femininity and wom…

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Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan, T Corey Brennan
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China

"Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled one-half of the earth's population in …

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Sofia Ahlberg,
Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening climate change, this book uses metaphors of magic and shapeshifting to imagine liva…

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David A Salomon, Kelly A O'Connor-Salomon
Angels, Demons, and Demigods

Angels, demons, and demigods are ubiquitous in popular culture, functioning as protagonists, antagonists, and amused commentators on the folly (or glory) of human existence.Why do these celestial beings h…

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Christopher Vaccaro
Sadomasochistic "Beowulf"

This anthology brings together articles by several scholars all engaged in the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principles of the collection are a clear f…

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Various,
Elbows Up!

McClelland & Stewart

A blazing collection of responses to the U.S.'s shocking annexation threats and the swell of Canadian national unity that followed, from a remarkable array of Canada's sharpest and most influential minds.…

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Ray Nayler
Palaces of the Crow

June 1941, Eastern EuropeAs the German blitzkrieg tears across a divided continent, four young lives are thrown into chaos: Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a scientist; Czes¿aw, an unde…

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Neil Mathison
Airstream Country

A herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly ret…

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Myriam Gurba
Poppy State

From the award-winning author of Creep comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers---at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Abdelrahman Munif,
Outside the Prison Walls

Abdelrahman Munif was a towering, transformative figure in Arabic literature. The author of more than 25 books, he was a public intellectual and an icon of principled opposition to authoritarian regimes. …

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Queer Literature in the Sinosphere

Examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world from ancient times to the present.

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