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Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern CultureThe Work of Form: Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern Culture explores the resurgent interest in literary form and aesthetics in early modern english studies. Essays by leading international scholars reflect on the legacy of historicist approaches and on calls for a renewal of formalist analysis as...

An Essay on CircularityRoy T Cook examines the Yablo paradox--a paradoxical, infinite sequence of sentences, each of which entails the falsity of all others later than it in the sequence--with special attention paid to the idea that this paradox provides us with a semantic paradox that involves no circularity. The three main chapters of the book...

Environmental LiabilityIn Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability, experts who held leadership positions and worked directly with the UNCC draw on their experience with the institution and provide a comprehensive view of the United Nations Compensation Comission and its work in the aftermath of the Gulf...

Pathways of Influence and Implications for Practice and PolicyIn the last half century, developmental scientists have become increasingly interested in studying contexts beyond the home environment that contribute to children&'s growth and development, including physical contexts such as schools and neighborhoods, as well as social contexts such as...

According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to "e;a method of recording and preserving oral testimony"e; which results in a verbal document that is "e;made available in different forms to other users, researchers, and the public."e; Ordinarily such an academic process would seem to be far removed from...

On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of ThinkingWhen bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or...