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Preparing for your next book club discussion? This study guide includes a wealth of information and resources to enhance your book club meeting. Written by an expert in literature, this comprehensive guide to Kate Atkinson's acclaimed novel A God in Ruins includes: - thought-provoking...

The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other theoretical...

“Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of Eat Fat, Get Thin by Mark Hyman now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: Book Summary of ‘Eat Fat, Get Thin’ by Mark Hyman The fear of consuming fat was ingrained or rather programmed into the minds of the...

Offers a positive approach to literary criticism At a moment when the “hermeneutics of suspicion” is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment....

The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith | Conversation Starters The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy” is a memoir by ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the eighth of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. In her book, she looks back at a time long...

Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller...

Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends by Peter Schweizer now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: Summary of Secret Empires Chapter 1: Corruption...

The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism's Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field and provides an incisive, well-informed guide for students and scholars alike. Surveying the key critical...

The years from 1890 through 1935 witnessed an explosion of print, both in terms of the variety of venues for publication and in the vast circulation figures and the quantity of print forums. Arguing that the formal strategies of modernist texts can only be fully understood in the context of the material...

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from Wordsworth and Thoreau through to Google Earth, J.M. Coetzee and Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man. Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible...

Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry – the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political,...

In the last decades of the twentieth century, French poststructuralist 'theory' transformed the humanities; it also met with resistance and today we frequently hear that theory is 'dead'. In this brilliantly argued volume, Colin Davis: *reconsiders key arguments for and against theory, identifying...

Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life by Max Lugavere | Conversation Starters Genius Foods is a New York Times bestselling book written by filmmaker Max Lugavere. His life changed when his mother was diagnosed with rare dementia. Max...

Alexander Pope’s heroi-comical, mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock, continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon of English literature. In celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem. Their...