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    Treason and Survival in the American Revolution

    Series series Military
    Charleston, 1775–1783: where loyalty was as dangerous as rebellion. Revisit the Revolutionary War through the eyes of Charleston's most misunderstood figures, the Loyalists. Often erased from more traditional narratives, these men and women lived in the deadliest gray space of the war, where allegiance shifted by necessity, survival outweighed ideology, and every decision carried life-and-death ... Read more

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  • Deep Oil Spills

    Facts, Fate, and Effects

    The demand for oil and gas has brought exploration and production to unprecedented depths of the world’s oceans. Currently, over 50% of the oil from the Gulf of Mexico now comes from waters in excess of 1,500 meters (one mile) deep, where no oil was produced just 20 years ago. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill blowout did much to change the perception of oil spills as coming just from tanker ... Read more

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  • Lipids in Freshwater Ecosystems

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Although limnology is a young discipline, it has, over the past century, experi enced marked growth. Its early descriptive period was a long one, given the enormous diversity of biota and environments in freshwater ecosystems. With the development of quantitative techniques came the ability to measure production rates and other parameters and to demonstrate the effects of nutrient limitation and ... Read more

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  • Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills

    Fighting the Next War

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    It has often been said that generals prepare for the next war by re-fighting the last. The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was unlike any previous – an underwater well blowout 1,500 meters deep. Much has been learned in the wake of DWH and these lessons should in turn be applied to both similar oil spill scenarios and those arising from “frontier” explorations by the marine oil industry. The ... Read more

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  • Derek Jarman - Moving Pictures of a Painter

    Home Movies, Super 8 Films and Other Small Gestures

    by Martin Frey ...
    Translated by Michael Wetzel ...
    The English painter, film-maker and writer Derek Jarman (1942–1994) is mainly knownfor his work in the medium of film, but he always saw himself primarily as a painter.In this study of his lesser known home movies, Super 8 films and the ‘cinema of smallgestures’ that Jarman developed out of them, Martin Frey discusses numerous Super 8films as well as the films THE LAST OF ENGLAND, IN THE SHADOW OF ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism and Naturalism

    Scientific and Social Inquiry After Representationalism

    Most contemporary philosophers would call themselves naturalists, yet there is little consensus on what naturalism entails. Long signifying the notion that science should inform philosophy, debates over naturalism often hinge on how broadly or narrowly the terms nature and science are defined. The founding figures of American Pragmatism—C. S. Peirce (1839–1914), William James (1842–1910), and John ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism and Naturalism

    Scientific and Social Inquiry After Representationalism

    Most contemporary philosophers would call themselves naturalists, yet there is little consensus on what naturalism entails. Long signifying the notion that science should inform philosophy, debates over naturalism often hinge on how broadly or narrowly the terms nature and science are defined. The founding figures of American Pragmatism—C. S. Peirce (1839–1914), William James (1842–1910), and John ... Read more

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    Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era

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  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

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