Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History (Moretti Franco)(Paperback)

Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History (Moretti Franco)(Paperback)

In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the

A History of France (Bergin Joseph)(Paperback)

Few modern countries can boast of such a lengthy history as France, a staple of European maps for the last millennium. This engaging narrative analyses French political, social and cultural history since 987, in a single volume. Through revolution, war and peace, it explores how the Frankland of

Distant Reading (Moretti Franco)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here

The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature (Moretti Franco)(Paperback)

'The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be

The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study (Buurma Rachel Sagner)(Paperback)

The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up 'the teaching archive'-the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments-of critics and scholars

Revolution in France (Mason James)(Paperback / softback)

Revolution in France is part of the series a Sense of History for 11-14 year

History of Violence (Louis Edouard)(Paperback / softback)

** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence. I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the

The Music Tree English Edition Student's Book: Part 1 -- A Plan for Musical Growth at the Piano (Clark Frances)(Paperback)

Trees, Woods and Forests: A Social and Cultural History (Watkins Charles)(Paperback)

Forests--and the trees within them--have always been a central resource for the development of technology, culture, and the expansion of humans as a species. Examining and challenging our historical and modern attitudes toward wooded environments, this engaging book explores how our understanding

The History of Orkney Literature (Hall Simon)(Paperback)

Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Viking age, through to the colourful folklorists, polemicists and translators of the Victorian era, and the internationally acclaimed poets and novelists of

Ravencroft (Tieri Frank)(Paperback)

Collects Ravencroft (2020) #1-5. Ravencroft's history has been shrouded in mystery for years - but no longer! In the wake of ABSOLUTE CARNAGE, the past of the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane has started to unravel - revealing hidden chapters in the lives of some of the Marvel

The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 (Moore Steven)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and

Schaum's Outline of Abstract Algebra (Ayres Frank)(Paperback)

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Rnough Time? Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline

Showfolk - An Oral History of a Fairground Dynasty (Bruce Frank)(Paperback / softback)

This is the story of Frank Codona and his family - a fairground dynasty that has lasted for over two hundred years in Scotland, told mostly in their own

Slide Rules: Their History, Models, and Makers (Hopp Peter M.)(Paperback)

In the hopes of 'preserving these delightful devices for future generations,' this collector of slide rules covers everything one could possibly want to know about this crude form of analog computer: from its invention in the 17th century to manufacturers- retailers, 1850-1998, and the Oughtred

Tangled Tree - A Radical New History of Life (Quammen David)(Paperback / softback)

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the 'tree of life', with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely

Hilter, Chamberlain and appeasement (McDonough Frank)(Paperback)

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This book examines the key roles played by Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain in the events that led to the outbreak of the Second World War. It looks at Hitler's foreign-policy aims, why appeasement became British