Literture & Literature & Science – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 4

Prof Llewelyn Morgan (Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford)

Horace: A Very Short Introduction

This book examines the career of the Roman poet Horace, one of the greatest writers in Roman literature. It introduces his poetry with illustrations from all his works, and contextualises his career in Gr…

Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Advancing our understanding of one of the most influential 20th-century philosophers, Robert Vinten brings together an international line up of scholars to consider the relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's …

Shannon Draucker

Sounding Bodies

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture

"Using a Humanistic Cultural Studies approach, this edited volume is the first book-length study of its kind to offer insights on the myriad representations and conceptualizations of women's body image in…

National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Health And Medicine Division, Food And Nutrition Board, Roundtable on Obesity Solutions

Exploring the Science on Measures of Body Composition, Body Fat Distribution, and Obesity

The National Academies Roundtable on Obesity Solutions hosted a public workshop series in April and June 2023 that explored the current science on measures of body composition and body fat distribution. D…

Ökologische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

Welche Rolle kann die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Kontext einer nachhaltigen, ökologischen Bildung spielen? Eine ökologische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur ist seit den 1970er Jahren eng verzahnt mit gese…

Stephen Knight

Nature and Medieval Literature

This book describes how medieval authors represent the natural world - both seeing it in terms of natural and animal forces and meanings, but also as a different domain that can cast a revealing and criti…

Patrick Colm Hogan

Literature and Moral Feeling

"Ethics has been a central concern in literature since the earliest works treating the purposes of poetry and stories. Plato famously criticized poets for their inculcation of morally improper inclination…

Maryanne Wolf

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

In the tradition of Stephen Pinker s The Language Instinct or Mel Levine s A Mind at a Time, a preeminent researcher known for her work in dyslexia offers an eloquent book about how the brain learned to r…

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and fl…

Tom Rutter

Shakespeare and Science

Tom Rutter examines how Shakespeare made use in his writings of the knowledge and theories of the cosmos, the natural world, and human biology that were available to him. The dialogic nature of drama enab…

The Bluetones

Science & Nature

P. L. Simmods

Science and Commerce

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim i…

Jennifer Jahner

Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta

This study of poetry and political thought in late twelfth- and thirteenth-century England explores how Latin, French, and Middle English political poetry and Latin grammar and rhetoric shaped ideas about…

Michael Wainwright

Kantian Dignity and Trolley Problems in the Literature of Richard Wright

This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature,…

National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Policy And Global Affairs, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

AI for Scientific Discovery

Over the past century, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from computational theory to everyday conversational technologies, capturing the attention and interest of the public and the media. It has …

Jerôme de Wit,

Literature and Cultural Identity During the Korean War

Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean War considers the similarities and differences in the way that writers from both North…

Paul Tenngart

The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

"Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture"--

Peter McMahon

Structuralism and Form in Literature and Biology

The book considers biology in parallel with philosophical structuralism in order to argue that notions of form in the organism are analogous to similar ideas in structuralist philosophy and literary theor…