A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic
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In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production,...

Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography
Jacques Derrida, Gerhard Richter and Jeff Fort
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This book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in...
Pindar's Eyes: Visual and Material Culture in Epinician Poetry
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Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek...

To be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
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What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to...

The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel
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The Complete Alice, including both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass...

100 Dutch-Language Poems: From the Medieval Period to the Present Day
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100 Dutch-Language Poems offers a wonderful new resource to poetry lovers around the world. It...

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
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'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke...

Blood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem
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The history of theater is rife with tales of crime, suspense, and murder. The nineteenth century was...

Dashiell Hammett and the Movies
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As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood....

Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics
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Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics presents multidisciplinary and...