Gothic death 1740'��1914: A literary history by Andrew Smith
Category: Gone Fishing
Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the beginning of the First World War. It investigates how eighteenth century Graveyard Poetry and the tradition of the elegy produced a version of death that under ...Show more
Technology and Society: A Philosophical Guide by James Gerrie
Category: Gone Fishing
James Gerrie offers an up-to-date introduction to the basic issues that have come to de����?ne the philosophy of technology: What is '��technology'? Does technology control our lives? What is technology's relation to ethics? How does technology in������uence us? Is the widespread belief in technological ...Show more
European Porcelain: In The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Jeffrey Munger
Category: Gone Fishing
The quest to discover the process of making porcelain was one of the defining aspects of post-Renaissance Europe, and it had significant artistic, technical, and commercial ramifications. This beautifully illustrated book showcases ninety works, spanning the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, ...Show more
and War: From Apes to Artificial Intelligence Evolution Strategy by Kenneth Payne
Category: Gone Fishing
Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things ������������ with dramatic consequences for international affairs. This book explores the evolutionary origins of human strategy, and makes a provocative argument that Artificial Intellig ...Show more
Tolkien Maker of Middle Earth by Catherine McIlwaine
Category: Gone Fishing | Reading Level: very good
The range of J. R. R. Tolkien's talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but also a skillful illustrator and storyteller. Drawing on these talents, he created a universe which is for m ...Show more
Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung
Category: Gone Fishing
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria ' just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and s ...Show more
Emotions of Protest by James M Jasper
Category: Gone Fishing
In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popularity, it is clear that displays of anger dominate Am ...Show more
Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11 by Lindsay Palmer
Category: Gone Fishing
The dangerous new realities of reporting on war The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for ''the enemy.'' Americans in combat areas became literal targets of ant ...Show more
Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from around the World by Dale Knickerbocker
Category: Gone Fishing
Forging a new canon for international sf Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem: Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established c ...Show more
Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto by Mark Polizzotti
Category: Gone Fishing
For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty'summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced ...Show more
Essential Tversky by Amos Tversky
Category: Gone Fishing
Amos Tversky (1937--1996) was a towering figure in the cognitive and decision sciences. His work was ingenious, exciting, and influential, spanning topics from intuition to statistics to behavioral economics. His long and extraordinarily productive collaboration with his friend and colleague Daniel Kahn ...Show more
and Processing Acquisition Creating Language: Integrating Evolution by Morten Christiansen, Nick Chater
Category: Gone Fishing
Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment ...Show more
