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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early eighteenth century. In the 1740s and 50s Haywood also edited several serial newspapers, the most important being   The Female Spectator which appeared every month from April 1744 to May 1746 and was written with a markedly female audience in mind. The first modern...

Hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness. This book describes the latest advances in understanding hypnosis and similar trance states by researchers within the neuroscience of consciousness....

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Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern AmericaWhen Ishi, "e;the last wild Indian,"e; came out of hiding in August 1911, he was        quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the        fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a        momentous event, not...