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  • Kent

    by Thomas Horan ...
    In November of 1960, the town of Kent, Maine vanished off the face of the earth, taking its seven hundred and twenty-eight residents with it. Despite the police's best efforts, no answer was ever given as to where the town went or why it vanished. Sixty years later, one of the officers involved in the case is approached by a mysterious girl who wants to know the full story of what happened during ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction

    by Thomas Horan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature, which can be ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Digital Infrastructures

    Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology

    Edited by Thomas Horan, Rae Zimmerman ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    An invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on network demand, performance, reliability, and security. Digital Infrastructures presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the technological ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

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  • The Culture of Cities

    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

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  • The End of Airports

    by Dr. Christopher Schaberg ...
    If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Just City

    by Susan S. Fainstein ...
    "The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England

    The Representation of History in Printed Books

    by James A. Knapp ...
    Illustrating the Past is a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern English representations of the past. It focuses on general attitudes towards visual and verbal representations of history as well as specific illustrated books produced during the period. Through a close examination of the relationship of image to text in light of contemporary discussions of poetic and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Inferno Revealed

    From Dante to Dan Brown

    by Deborah Parker, Mark Parker ...
    Using Dan Brown's book as a jumping off point, Inferno Revealed will provide readers of Brown's Inferno with an engaging introduction to Dante and his world. Much like the books on Leonardo that followed the release of the Da Vinci Code, this book will provide readers with more information about the ever-intriguing Dante. Specifically, Inferno Revealed explores how Dante made himself the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Iterations of Loss

    Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

    by Jeffrey Sacks ...
    In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Read more

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  • Miscellaneous Short Poetry, 1641–1700

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 4

    by Robert C. Evans ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    This volume reproduces twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, selected and introduced by various hands, are grouped in thematic clusters for the reader's ease - poetry on religion, on politics, on society, on domestic/social affairs and on mourning. The poems are arranged chronologically within each cluster. The volume closes with Anne Wentworth ... Read more

    $77.99 USD